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May 16. 2019

Trico Spent Spinner

A small Trico spent spinner with a neat mayfly tailing technique and a segmented moose mane hair body for a semi realistic effect.

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Microspey rods

An article about how spey style casting can be performed with rods rated for single hand, and how to build and line up your own microspey or micro Skagit rod.

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Danish Fly Festival Impressions

Mar 7. 2019

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Another Danish Fly Festival is over, and as always it was a great experience. Lots of people to meet, lots of things to see.

Why I like tying at shows

Feb 25. 2019

Blog entry

In a few days I'm leaving for the Danish Fly Festival, and there I will be tying in the tyers row, an activity that I love

Unlimited access... not

Feb 19. 2019

Blog entry

In principle there's free and unlimited access to all coasts in Denmark. That's what the law says. But in many places reality is different.

Tying spaces

Using bead chains

Eyes Plain and simple bead chain is one of the cheapest fly tying materials around, but very useful and a great addition to many flies.

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Videos

May 14. 2019 Video Hot Spot Stone In this fly tying tutorial, we welcome guest tier Shawn Holsinger of Holsinger's Fly Shop (co-owner with his father Ron).	May 14. 2019 Video Baetis sparkle wing A little comparadun Baetis, that not only works very well early, but just about the whole season. With a mixed wing and a quill body. Perfect in sizes 16-18.	May 14. 2019 Video Foam Body F-Fly Variation Hook Size 12-14-16 Thread Black Foam Body Wings 4 CDC Feathers Mix Brown Partridge Hackle Head CDC mix Dubbing
May 14. 2019 Video Skating caddis A quick medium sized adult caddis fly that skates high, creating a nice wake, making it a great little attractor, with an interesting segmented dubbing body technique,	May 14. 2019 Video Paraloop Griffiths A little different play on a Griffiths gnat. A reverse paraloop hackle that gives a deeper presentation and doubles as a quick sight indicator.	May 14. 2019 Video How To Cast Double Handed Rods Antti Guttorm, known from FLY TV, will show you different casts with double handed fly rods.

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Intruder conversions

I got the crazy idea to convert some Danish sea trout and salmon flies to intruders. It worked out surprisingly well.

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Jan 19. 2019

The Mörrum Fly

Pattern The Mörrum fly has been named after the south Swedish river Mörrum, but is also sometimes referred to as The Grünewalder after its originator, Danish Jan Grünwald

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Article Tying better flies Jan 16. 2019 Swiss/Norwegian Fabien Moulin aims to tie some really good looking flies, and ponders a bit about how to improve as a fly tyer. Read Fabien's thoughts here.	Article Bar Guac Hopper Jan 9. 2019 Terrestrial This pattern, which takes its name from the popular appetizer Guacamole, was inspired by the 'Bar Guac' special at a local fly fishing hangout. See how to tie it here	Review Top Saltwater Flies Jan 5. 2019 Colossal An impressing three volume collection of patterns for the most sought after fish in warm saltwater
Article Grasshopper Valley Dec 31. 2018 Hoppers Fly fishing with terrestrials in Slovakia at its best. Read the report here	Article CDC Loop Wing Foam Emerger Dec 28. 2018 Floating A simple and very hard-to-sink emerger from Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski See how to tie it here	Article The Prince Dec 20. 2018 Iceland There are quite a few rivers around Iceland claiming the queen crown. But there is only one Prince. Meet the river Hofsá Read more here

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Black Ranger salmon fly	McIntyre salmon fly	McIntyre salmon fly	Lady Caroline tied by Niels Have	Glen Grant tied by Niels Have	Sea trout fishing

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Video Hot Spot Stone May 14. 2019 In this fly tying tutorial, we welcome guest tier Shawn Holsinger of Holsinger's Fly Shop (co-owner with his father Ron).	Article Pacific Northwest Streamer Conversions Mar 8. 2019 Upgraded A small series of flies from Roy Patrick's pattern book converted into streamers See how to tie them here
Article Hair pin intruder shanks Mar 4. 2019 DIY I have been making my own intruder shanks from straight hair pins for a while, and they are easy to make, inexpensive and work really well. See how here	Article The Brown Owl Feb 23. 2019 Pattern This very buggy looking streamer-slash-stonefly-slash-nymph caught my eye. Such a fly should be able to catch almost any kind of trout See the fly here

Review Steelhead Fly Tying Feb 11. 2019 Extravagant Beautiful photos, lots of detailed text and schoolbook step-by-step instructions on how to tie 24 fantastic looking steelhead flies	Article El Grande Jan 30. 2019 Billfish How James Widmaier caught a record breaking sailfish during his 50th wedding anniversary stay with his wife in Costa Rica Read the story here.	Article Intruder conversions Jan 26. 2019 Transforming I got the crazy idea to convert some Danish sea trout and salmon flies to intruders. It worked out surprisingly well. See some examples in the article
Article The Flying Flash Carpet Jan 23. 2019 Monstrous Look! It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s the Flying Flash Carpet! A pike fly out of this world. See how to construct it here	Article Using bead chains Jan 21. 2019 Eyes Plain and simple bead chain is one of the cheapest fly tying materials around, but very useful and a great addition to many flies. Get some ideas here	Article The Mörrum Fly Jan 19. 2019 Pattern The Mörrum fly has been named after the south Swedish river Mörrum, but is also sometimes referred to as The Grünewalder after its originator, Danish Jan Grünwald Learn to tie it here

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