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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.

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.

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·Martin's Mundane Sand Eel
·Martin's Mundane Fly Project
·Steelhead Beetle
·Grantham's Sedge
·The Killer Mantis
·Martin's Mundane Zonker Worm
·HKA Sunray/Bismo
·Jim Warner Swap
·Carrie Challenge II
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·How to submit a pattern to GFF
·Martin's Mundane Fly Project
·Oatman's Silver Darter
·The Killer Mantis
·Everyday Fly Tying Tips
·Major Traherne's flies
·Tying with CDC
·The CDC & Elk family
·DIY brushes and combs
·The Bloody Zonker
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·Essential Saltwater Flies
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