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Jan 2000 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
Jan 2000 - Editorial - Articles, blog posts
Simo Lumme
He send me copies of some of his own creations and moreover delicate watercolour drawings of his in Scandinavia very famous Sedge Pupa - imitation. As his flies are very little known in Europe, I shall try to give a description.
Atlantic Salmon Handbook
Although this book is riddled with errors it does convey the basic information that a beginning Atlantic salmon fisher would need.
Monofilament eyes
These eyes are actually quite easy to make, but can tease a bit if you want to do them both on the same piece of monofile -- which is the neatest way to do things.
Common casting errors
In the following little animations I will show you the most common casting errors. I observe these errors very often, but with a little practice it is very simple to correct the causes for these errors. If you know the reason for such an error it is easy to kill the cause through excercises, believe me.
Better tinsel bodies
How to tie a nice, even, ribbed tinsel body. Here's one way. The description assumes that you want a silver body. If you want gold, just replace 'silver' with 'gold' below.
Here's how
Susquehanna Smallmouth patterns
If you mention smallmouth bass fishing in Pennsylvania, the Susquehanna River immediately comes to mind. This article features 14 efficient flies for Susquehanna smallmouth from the hands first time contributor Robb Nicewonger.
Opossum
A small, simple autumn pattern, that lives through the sparkling sandcolored opossum. Easy to tie, but still effective.
Hook8 or 10 streamer down eye hookThreadTanTailSmall tuft of brown hackle fiber...
Nutria muddler
Once again a muddler. This one is typically tied as a large fly (size 2 or 4) and moves a lot of water (and air...). Other muddlers are the Small Muddler, Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler and the gene...
Herb Welch flies
If I was sitting with ten fellow trout fisherman and mentioned the name "Herbie Welch", I would probably get ten quizzical looks.
More here
Bead chain eyes
You will see that many of the Danish saltwater flies - The Magnus, Bjarke and Grey Frede are prime examples - have bead chain eyes. These eyes serve two purposes: weight and imitation. The eyes will add quite a bit of weight in the front end of the fly and the beads obviously look like eyes. Their shiny surface even adds an attractive feature that will glimpse and get the attention of the fish.
George F. Grant’s Flies
The hallmarks of Grant's flies are the woven hair hackle and a body covered with flat mono-nylon.
Weaving the hackle: A strong tying thread is doubled and stretched tight between two vices. Tie an ...
Soeren Glerup shows you here.
Virginia Blue-Ribbon Streams - A Fly-Fishing Guide
Overall, I don't like where-to-fish guidebooks. Most of them are poorly researched, poorly written, and generally useless. This volume, however, proves the exception to the rule.
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.
About the Thunder Creek style
Woodduck Flank
I have to admit a particular fondness for woodduck flank. Ever since I was given my first baggie of feathers from a duck hunting friend, I was smitten. The color - the texture - the barring of the feathers.
they have a natural beauty above and beyond the world of fly tying.
Spey Hackles
I've been fascinated with spey flies for a long time. The first I had ever seen was a Purple Spey tied by Tim Purvis, which arrived in a swap of steelhead flies a bunch of us FF@'ers exchanged several years ago. The next was an Olive Spey tied by Juro Mukai in a swap of atlantic salmon flies.
Read GFF partner Bob Petti's article here.
Book column January 2000
This is where it all starts You are what you eat! You are what you read! Garbage in garbage out! I don't know what all this means but it came right out of my keyboard as I sat down to begin this journey with you. This column is a new one for the Global Fly Fisher and it will evolve and grow. It may also flow smoothly, succumb to seasonal droughts and also run full spate as it runs from it's source to it's final destination. It is unnamed at this time but I will give it a name when I think of something appropriate.
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