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Strange contraptions for your tippets

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The Test Tube

Futurama: A weird and futuristic construction from the archives. Really easy to tie... eh, make... uhm... construct... Metal, plastic and glue.
See how to go about it here

Martin's Mundane Shrimp

Mundane: Another simple, three-material fly. This time a shrimp, well suited for seatrout and probably fine for a number of other saltwater species not least bonefish. Super simple to tie and with easily accessible and cheap materials.
See the pattern here

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Martin's Mundane
Sand Eel

Mundane: Sand eels are very common in most waters around the world. This is a very simple flatwing style sand eel that can be tied easily with very few, common materials, and make a great imitaion that is easy to cast on a light rod.
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Martin's Mundane Zonker Worm

Zonker: For many saltwater anglers the term "worm hatch" has a magical ring to it. When the polychaete worms swim freely to spawn, the fish usually go berserk, be it trout, stripers, tarpon or a number of other species. As one writer puts it: It's like yelling "free lunch" to a high school football team.
Learn to tie a simple worm here

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Une Création

En Francais: We crank out some strange flies every now and then. Get an idea, dig through piles of materials and tie up a handful of slightly different flies, each one better than the previous one, but none of them really good. But sometimes one comes out OK.
Such a fly is Martin Joergensen's Création.

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A Black Fly

I've had little experience fishing with this fly which is quite recent in my collection. It has all the characteristics of a good night fly, it's fast and easy to tie and durable too. It should be a fly worth having in you box.

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An experiment

What else would you expect to find in a lab...? This fly is one of the many that I seem to crank out at random. Most of them end up as garbage and never even find their way into my fly boxes, but this one had something. Just a little something.

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Sand eel/lance

The sand eel or lance - called the tobis in Danish - is one of the most common fish on the Dansih coasts, and is an important part of the diet of especially larger sea trout and cod for that matter. Because of that it is an interesting fish to imitate.

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Linked flies

The flies on this page all have one thing in common: they have a linked body. Many of us strive to add life to our flies - the sense of something living. This can be done by using soft materials or adding long tails like on zonkers. These are all fine techniques that work well. But something urged me to try something different.

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Bullet Head Magnus

The Magnus is a pattern always present in my fly box. I've caught a lot of fish on it, it's simple to tie and surprisingly durable. It's normally tied with ball chain eyes, but after I found a good supplier of bullet shaped bead head, I tried tying some with bullet heads.

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The Spade - Green GP feathers

The fly will probably look like something the cat dragged in, when it's been cast a couple of times. But still: I'll give it a try. I've always loved tying with golden phesant (GP) feathers.

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Salt water spiders

The least dressed fly of all The classic spider fly has to be one of the least dressed flies of all times. A slender body and a thin hackle - and that's it.

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Gift wrapping string fly

I have some remote relatives in Boston who occasionally sends over christmas gifts to my kids. This year the gifts were packed with some particularly interesting string. This string was braided in the colors red and green with some shiny material laid in. It said "flies" all over it! I scavenged the remains from the unpacking and stoved it away between my fly tying materials.

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Content page

An outdated content page for The Lab. Use the section front page in stead.

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Picric acid
Dyeing with picric acid yields colors between a gorgeous olive and an electric yellow.

All articles from this section...

·A Black Fly
·An experiment
·Bullet Head Magnus
·Content page
·Gift wrapping string fly

·Linked flies
·Martin's Mundane Sand Eel
·Martin's Mundane Shrimp
·Martin's Mundane Zonker Worm
·Picric acid

·Salt water spiders
·Sand eel/lance
·The Spade - Green GP feathers
·The Test Tube
·Une Création

Patterns
·Genner Bug
·The Chicken or Pasta Fly
·Ken's Incredibly Simple Shrimp
·Mickey Finn
·The Bat Fly
·Goldmine Crab
·Streamers 365
·The Test Tube
·Tight Line Shrimp
·Malbran - The fly that catches ...
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Tie Better
·Buying soft hackle
·Buying Dry Fly Hackle
·Buying Deer Hair
·Buying Bucktail
·What to look for when byuing...
·My first flies
·Duck's extended body
·The tube fly needle
·New tube materials
·Christmas gifts
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Book Reviews
·The Fly Fisher's Playbook
·Matching Major Eastern Hatches
·Classic Salmon Fly Patterns
·The Flies that Catch Fish
·An Entirely Synthetic Fish
·Dyeing and Bleaching
·Salmon fishing in the Yemen
·Fisheye
·The Trout Diaries
·The Practical Fly Tier
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