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Sinister Phly

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Phar Side Phly

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Jan's Giant Buzzers

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The Perfect Woolly

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Chuck's FlutterStone

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The Fluff

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Para-Hackle Emerger

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Lake Champ

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The White

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The Copper Bully

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Shark's Caddis Larva

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The Simplest Fly
“What is this” “A fly!” “What kind of fly” “Well, this is a fly that imitates a beetle” The fly that he showed me then was really huge one, may be about 2 - 2,5 centimeters or almost and inch in diameter. “Wow, why is it so big?” “Because I am an old man, I can not see well”
  
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The Charlie Fly
The Charlie Fly was inspired by the underfur from the originator's Chocolate Lab. Ken Bonde Larsen's dog has unwillingly become the material manufacturer for this great sea trout producer. As it often is with Danish with sea trout flies it's a small, generic pattern.
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Shark's Wasp
Bulgarian fly tyer and fly angler Radoslav Kiskinov takes another stab at imitating a terrestrial insect - this time the wasp - and with usual skill he manages to produce a very life-like fly. Bulgarian anglers and Bulgarian fish love it.
  
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Domestic Fly
The common housefly is indeed... eh.... common, and an obvious insect to imitate. Bulgarian Radoslav Kiskinov has made a simple but very efficient pattern imitating Musca domestica using foam, raffia and peacock herl, which will catch several species when fished dry.
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The Barbell Tube
Steve Egge has been spending some time lately playing at the vise with some interesting bottle tubes.Here is his latest, which shows how varied you can be with tube tying. Tying behind the tube, on the tube body and in front of the tube.
  
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Classics
Tying flies not meant for fishing sounds odd to some but dragging others into the world of advanced techniques. Anders Ovesen takes us into his cave of threads and feathers and reveals some puzzles needed to tie da old school style. Hang on to this detailed description and fly to the 
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·Good, Bad, and Ugly
·The Ugliest Flies
·The Mad Epoxy Tier
·Styles and Patterns
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·Tube Tools
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·Aux Outardes River Pike
·10 rules for catch and release
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·Winter fishing
·Measuring the temperature
·Sharks!
·The bad beginning
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