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Streamers
Long, slender flies that often mimick small fish

Alan Petrucci Streamers

Streamers: I can still remember the fist fish I caught on a streamer, a stocked brook trout on a Royal Coachman streamer. Since that time I have had success many times fishing these long flies. In my early days of fly fishing I bought all of my flies.
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Thunder Creek Flies

Review: A really fantastic book about a single type of streamer - the Thunder Creek. Beautiful and of course very thorough with excellent photos and lots of advice, stories and general thoughts on fishing.
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Long Flies

Review: Every style of streamer from the Aztec to the Zonker is covered here. All manners of streamers, bucktails, muddlers, buggers, matukas, and "others". If it's tied on a long shank hook - or even if it's tied on a short shank book but is a "long" fly, chances are it's here.
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Mike Boyer Streamers

Streamers: Growing up on the West Coast, I learned about East Coast fly patterns and tyers mostly from books, and the occasional television show. I remember seeing Lee Wulff and Joe Brooks on the American Sportsman show as a youngster, fishing for Brookies.
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A few from Ora Smith

Streamers: The flies of Ora Smith that have captured my imagination were the little casting streamers with duck flank wings. They are like elongated wet flies. I sat down one weekend and tied up a selection, imaging some late spring day when I could cast these flies on a light line to some spooky trout.
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Find "Jim Warner Swap" here

Jim Warner Swap

Streamers: Jim Warner has been one of the most influential fly tyers in New England, especially for those who spend their time trolling and fishing streamers in the many lakes and ponds of the region. The gang of the streamers@ list recently had a swap of his great fly patterns.
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Carrie Challenge II

Streamers: Back in 2002 a bunch of guys on the streamers@ mailing list decided to tie some flies "in the hand" without the benefit of a vise. This year a new crop took up the challenge with a different fly - Carrie's Favorite - and tackled the Look Ma, No Vise challange.
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Modern fly fishing

Review: In this series of DVD's Johan Klinberg takes us on different kinds of fly fishing with internationally renown anglers or local experts, Mountain Media has reached both new heights in their productions as well as a potentially very large audience. Czech nymphing, dry fly fishing, wet fly fishing and streamer fishing.
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The Clouserish

Not quite: Very inspired by the Clouser style as well as the Thunder Creek, but not tied quite as any of the originals. The Clouser-ish will still go in the Clouser Deep Minnow category, and as all these flies it's an excellent and easy-to-tie fly.
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Clouser Deep Minnow

Bucktail: Only a few patterns are as generally useful and widespread as the Clouser Deep Minnow. Only a few patterns have their own entry in Wikipedia, but the Clouser Deep Minnow is up there with the Woolly Bugger, the Muddler Minnow, Grey Ghost, Royal Coachman, Diawl Bach and a few others.
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Yellow Marabou Special

Marabou Winged Streamer: While tying up a batch of streamers for a fly swap, GFF partner Bob Petti remembered an old tinsel trick that reduced some of the hand cramping thread wrapping that is all too common with long shanked streamers.
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Favorite Streamer Swap

Patterns:: There's nothing like a good fly swap to get the fly tying knuckles cracked, the creative juices flowing again. The reasons for joining a swap are many - but for me it's fun to tie flies for something other than my fly boxes, and I truly enjoy the friendship and comraderie that comes with participating in a swap. It's not about who ties the best flies or who has the best feathers.
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"Zoo Cougar" is found here

Zoo Cougar

Grrrrr: Kelly Galloup's Zoo Cougar is a pattern with some years on its back, but Martin recently discovered and started tying this staple big trout streamer. Large fly, goudy colors, deer hair! Just his kind of fly.
Follow the story here and see Galloup tying the fly on video.

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Bergman

New Streamers: Converting a fly from one form to another is certainly an educational process, as it requires you to look at materials in a new way, especially the wing materials. A wet fly that calls for a wing of mallard flank or mottled turkey has no obvious equivalent in a hairwing.
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Zoo Cougar Streamer

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Zoo Cougar Streamer Fly Tying Directions

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This is a simple and easy streamer. Tied on a size 4 streamer hook. Hope you guys like it, because I super glued my hands together filming this.

LSMF Streamer

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A large streamer with a trailing hook

A Streamer Fly

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Tying a Streamer Fly. Materials Used; Hook Partridge Streamer size 3/0, Thread, Utc Flo-Fire Orange, Uni-Black 8/0, Tag, Silver Braid, Rib, Silver Braid, Body, Uni-Yarn Chinese Red, Throat, White Bucktail an Golden Pheasant Crest, Wing, Silver and Dyed Red Badger Cock Hackles Jungle Cock, Sides, Dyed Orange Golden Pheasant.

Galloup's Articulated Barely Legal

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Brian Wise, head guide at River of Life Farm ties Galloup's Articulated Barely Legal. The Barely Legal is on of the easier articulated patterns to tie....but goes crazy in the water.

Moto's Minnow Streamer

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Detailed instructions for tying a Moto's Minnow streamer.

Streamers On The Arkansas River

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Fishing streamers in Colorado

Kelly Galloup's Articulated Circus Peanut

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Brian Wise, head guide at River of Life Farm ties Kelly Galloup's Articulated Circus Peanut....an awesome streamer pattern.

Kelly Galloup's Articulated Butt Monkey

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Brian Wise, head guide at River of Life Farm ties Kelly Galloup's Articulated Butt Monkey.

A Thunder Creek Streamer

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Fly Tying A Thunder Creek Streamer with Jim Misiura. This is a good minnow pattern.

Brown Trout on Streamers

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Nice POV video of some fine Colorado trout fishing

Off the Grid Fly Fishing Trailer

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For the past two years we have been shooting and editing our new film, called Off the Grid. It is about fly fishing in locations off the beaten path. We're proud to announce that the DVD is finally complete.

The Sweeny Todd Streamer

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Tying the Sweeny Todd Streamer by Davie McPhail.

Modern fly fishing: Streamer

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Trailer for the last DVD in the series Modern Fly Fishing. We join Johan Klingberg in some exciting streamer fishing, and meet some of Europe's most skilful streamer fishermen.

In the search of dinosaurs

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It's about fly fishing for Tararira or Wolffish in our homewater Lake Salto in Argentine, casting, drills and some pictures.

About "Streamers - Long, slender flies that often mimick small fish" from Blog Creek – GFF's weblog

· Intimidated by a streamer - I wanted to tie a Carrie Stevens, Rangerly style New England streamer, but was surprised how hard it actually was

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Streamer Flies for Trophy Trout
Kelly Galloup, author of "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout", brings us a new DVD where he ties some of the flies from his book. With each fly, Kelly takes the time to explain the materials and techniques used to construct the fly, and we see every step along the way.

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S&L's Lost Flies
Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book "Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon" has inspired fly tyers for the 24 years since it's publication in 1982. Here, finally, we get to see some of the patterns listed in the back of the book that did not have supporting photographs.

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My Eyes!!
Painting eyes on streamers is nothing new, but as with any other tying procedure, there are some tricks that can help, and some pitfalls that should be avoided. This article shows you how to do it on-the-cheap with readily available materials.

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Bow River Bugger
Al Grombacher has shared with us one of the most effective patterns for the Bow River in Alberta, Canada, famed for its excellent fishing for rainbow trout.

Go to Mini Streamers

Mini Streamers
How small can you tie a streamer and still call it a streamer? The folks on the streamers@ mailing list decided to challenge themselves to a swap of streamers no larger than a size 12. The results were move interesting.

Go to New Streamers

New Streamers
Converting a classic salmon fly to hairwing form has been done for many years among salmon anglers. Recently, the gang on the streamers@ mailing list tried their hand at converting classic salmon patterns to trout flies.

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Streamers
This book is touted mainly as an instructional guide to tying the various styles of classic freshwater streamers. The hardcover layout is nice and easy on the eyes, with large color photos. It begins with some groundwork for tying streamers.

Go to Hornbergs

Hornbergs
The Hornberg can be cast out upstream and drifted as a dry fly. It can be pulled under the surface and stripped as a streamer. Is it a caddis? Stonely? A minnow? In early '01, a bunch of guys swapped their favorite Hornberg patterns.

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Simple Streamers
Ray Bergman is the originator of these three simple mixed wing streamers. The three were included in the updated version of Col. Bate's wonderful book "Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing". The combination of materials, the overall shape and color of the streamers really caught Bob Petti's eye.

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Bert Quimby
Another entry in the continuing series of features highlighting the flies of the founders of the art of streamer tying. Bert Quimby is not as well known as many, but his flies are just as beautiful and original.

Go to Fall Streamers

Fall Streamers
Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.

Go to Carrie Stevens II

Carrie Stevens II
One of the true parents of streamer fly fishing, particularly in New England, she brought forth the Gray Ghost. The popularity of her 25 years of fly tying is exemplified by this fly, a streamer that has traveled not only throughout the United States but all over the world.

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Carrie Stevens patterns
No page featuring New England Streamers would be complete without a portion dedicated to Carrie G. Stevens, of Madison, Maine. Mrs. Stevens is the originator or the Grey Ghost, one of the most well-known and effective New England Streamer patterns to have been tied, and still a popular choice as a trolling and casting streamer today.

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Deceivers
A recent article in Fly Tyer magazine sparked quite a debate on the streamer list about the use of this popular and effective saltwater fly in fresh water. The debate found the authors "defending" the fresh water deceiver and prompted us to write a small

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Streamer Video
Of the numerous videotapes available to aid and instruct the tyer in the various fly types, relatively few fall under the category of the streamer fly. For the streamer-fanatic, to have another tape available on the subject is a treat. Read Chris Del Plato's review of this new video by Mike Martinek.

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Ghost Reindeer Shiner
This article should rightly be subtitled "what to do when you don't have the right material that a pattern calls for?"

Go to Thunder Creek flies

Thunder Creek flies
Kieth Fulsher was particularly concerned with the size of the head and the eyes. He didn't feel that thread heads with painted eyes or jungle cock eyes appropriately represented the large head of a minnow.

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EZ quintet
EZ flies - that's what they are in the genuine all-American-marketing-way. Five classics with their patterns modified to be fairly easy and fast to tie - not least because of the simple body construction using braided tubing.

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