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Martin's Mundane Sand Eel

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The Chicken or Pasta Fly

IPSY2K: Too much about airplane food... and too little about fly tying and fly fishing. An ancient pattern from the Illustrated Pattern Swap year 2000.
Will it be chicken or pasta?

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The Pink Pig - Pattegrisen

A tentacled all-rounder : You have probably heard about and maybe even watched The Pink Panther. If so, you also know the soundtrack. Put that on and take a look to see what a Pink Pig is, and if it has anything in common with the panther or if there is more Miss Piggy in this fly tied for tarpon, bonefish and trout.
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Kai's Green Terror

Ugly: If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it's German Kai Nolting who brings you the fly that will save your day:
Kai's Green Terror

"The Killer Shrimp" is found here

The Killer Shrimp

Simple: The Killer Shrimp hardly looks like anything. It's gray and translucent, sparsely dressed and inconspicuous. But it catches fish. It's a great fly for those bright and calm days where sea trout seem to be unwilling to take any fly.
See how to tie it 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 Sand Eel

Type Cold saltwater fly

Originator
Martin Joergensen

Year of origin
2010

Difficulty
Very easy

Materials

Hook Kamasan B175 Size 6
Thread Black 6/0
Wing Narrow hackle feathers, grey, tan, grizzly or what you have
Flash Smooth, straight pearl flash
Topping Peacock herl

Tying instructions

Start the thread behind the hook eye
Tie in 2-3 hackle feathers flat on top of the hook. Keep a bit of the fluffy part in front
Tie in a flash straw on each side of the fly
Finish off with 2-4 peacock herl on top of the wing
Form a small head, whip finish and varnish

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