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Raske's New England Streamer Page

Guest Features
Carrie Stevens Patterns II
By Wes Autio & Others
Freshwater Deceivers
By Robb Nicewonger & Will Taylor
Grizzly Streamers
By Bob Petti & Others
Preston Jennings Patterns
By Bob Petti & Others
Our Children's Streamers
By Stan Jakubaszek & Others
Rangeley Streamers
By Mike Martinek
Carrie Stevens' Originals
By Mike Martinek
Reindeer Ghost Shiner
By Stan Jakubaszek
Thunder Creek Streamers
By Lindsey Grandison
Jim Warner Patterns
By Mike Martinek & Chris DelPlato
Herb Welch Streamers
By Bob Petti & Chris DelPlato
The West Carry Dace
By Dave Prince
White Marabou
By Bob Petti
Raske's Features
Atlantic Salmon Conversions
Flatwinged Patterns
Streamer Hackles
Streamer Hook Review
Product Review - Ewing Hackles
Carrie Stevens Patterns
Streamer Forums
The Streamer List
Swaps online
Attractor Swap
Little Bucktails Swap
Copper Swap
Flatwing Swap
Fox Swap
Marabou Swap
Matuka Swap
Oatman Swap
Rangeley Streamer Swap
Smelt Swap 98
The Forage Fish
Black Nose Dace
Brook Trout
Golden Shiner
Sculpins
Smelt
Tips & Techniques
The Flatwing Style
The Rangeley Style

382 streamer patterns:

Click to see "Jiggy"

Jiggy

Stolen hair: A jigging fly for almost any predatory fish originated by Bob Popvics. After a trip to Danish island Bornholm in 2007 Kasper Mühlbach wanted to tie and try this successful pattern and ordered a special color. But someone else came first and bought his custom dyed bucktail.
See the result here.

"Bergman Conversions" is found here

Bergman

New Streamers: Converting a fly from one form to another is certainly an educational process, as it requires you to look at materials in a new way, especially the wing materials. A wet fly that calls for a wing of mallard flank or mottled turkey has no obvious equivalent in a hairwing.
Click here to see the flies

Find "Streamer Flies for Trophy Trout" here

Streamer Flies for Trophy Trout

DVD Review: Kelly Galloup, author of "Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout", brings us a new DVD where he ties some of the flies from his book. With each fly, Kelly takes the time to explain the materials and techniques used to construct the fly, and we see every step along the way.
Click here to read the entire review

This link takes you to "Stewart and Leeman's Lost Flies"

S&L's Lost Flies

Streamers: Dick Stewart and Bob Leeman's book "Trolling Flies for Trout and Salmon" has inspired fly tyers for the 24 years since it's publication in 1982. Here, finally, we get to see some of the patterns listed in the back of the book that did not have supporting photographs.
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Directly to "Tribute to MOM"

Tribute to MOM

Mary Orvis Marbury Classics: The flies Mary documented were, invariably, ornate wet flies. They were, and are, the legacy of centuries of British salmon fly design spiced by the natural resources and original thinking available to their American interpreters.
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See "My Eyes!!" by clicking here

My Eyes!!

Painting Eyes: Painting eyes on streamers is nothing new, but as with any other tying procedure, there are some tricks that can help, and some pitfalls that should be avoided. This article shows you how to do it on-the-cheap with readily available materials.
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Find "Mini Streamers" on this page

Mini Streamers

Micro Streamers: How small can you tie a streamer and still call it a streamer? The folks on the streamers@ mailing list decided to challenge themselves to a swap of streamers no larger than a size 12. The results were move interesting.
Click here to see more.

Go to the article "Atlantic Salmon Conversions"

New Streamers

Streamers: Converting a classic salmon fly to hairwing form has been done for many years among salmon anglers. Recently, the gang on the streamers@ mailing list tried their hand at converting classic salmon patterns to trout flies.
Click here to see the results

Directly to "Tying Classic Freshwater Streamers by David Klausmeyer"

Streamers

New Book Review: This book is touted mainly as an instructional guide to tying the various styles of classic freshwater streamers. The hardcover layout is nice and easy on the eyes, with large color photos. It begins with some groundwork for tying streamers.
Click here for the rest of the review.

Skip to "Hornbergs"

Hornbergs

A unique fly: The Hornberg can be cast out upstream and drifted as a dry fly. It can be pulled under the surface and stripped as a streamer. Is it a caddis? Stonely? A minnow? In early '01, a bunch of guys swapped their favorite Hornberg patterns.
Click here to see the results

See "Three Simple Streamers" by clicking here

Simple Streamers

Classics: Ray Bergman is the originator of these three simple mixed wing streamers. The three were included in the updated version of Col. Bate's wonderful book "Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing". The combination of materials, the overall shape and color of the streamers really caught Bob Petti's eye.
See them here.

This link takes you to "Fall Streamer Swap"

Fall Streamers

Streamers: Looking for some juicy streamers to swing in your favorite trout stream or pond in the coming Fall? Check out these attractive flies from a streamer swap hosted by Scott Daskiewich.
Click here to see the flies in the Streamer section

Go to Big Mike's streamers

Big Mike's streamers
Truly influential fly tyers are rare. Mike Martinek is such a tyer. He has been the initiator and a major contributor to the revival of the American streamers. Read Bob Petti's article about Mike's beautiful, classical streamer patterns.

Go to Carrie's Challenge

Carrie's Challenge
I have never used a vise; I have never seen anyone tie a fly and noone has ever seen me tie one. I have never read or had any fly tying instructions. Said by Carrie Stevens in a letter to Jospeh Bates. The words of a trailblazer. How fortunate we are to reap the benefits of a road paved by innovators before us, such as Mrs. Stevens.

Go to Grizzly swap

Grizzly swap
GFF co-webmaster Bob Petti coordinated an effort to share Grizzly Streamer Patterns by members of the Streamer List.

Go to Jim Warner flies

Jim Warner flies
Guest writers Mike Martinek and Chris DelPlato have teamed up to write, the Jim Warner - A New England Classic which hilights the contribution of this well known New Hampshire angler to streamer anglers.

Go to Preston Jennings' flies

Preston Jennings' flies
Preston Jennings was one of those rare individuals who saw things differently than most folks. It would certainly be in our best interested to learn more about his work and his thoughts on color separation when we design our own flies. Bob Petti shows you a few patterns in the Streamer Section.

Go to Lake Erie Shiner

Lake Erie Shiner
Those of us fortunate enough to live in the Mid-Atlantic states of America's East coast are lucky enough to have at our disposal a free publication named The Mid-Altantic Flyfishing Guide. It was in this magazine that I first saw the Lake Erie Shiner.

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