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Hair Winged Salmon Flies

Patterns Material listings, pictures and tying notes for no less than 34 hair winged salmon fly patterns

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Review Advanced Flytying Techniques Dec 3. 2024 SBS A new book from Barry Ord Clarke is a pretty safe bet on a good book, and this one is indeed good	Article Knotting Nymphs Nov 27. 2024 Tying Introducing a way of making nymph bodies using elastic bead cord and a knotting technique Here's how
Article Pipette Hoppers and Poppers Oct 21. 2024 Lab equipment Lab equipment flies tied using plastic pipettes. See the tricks here	Article Ribbontail Baitfish Sep 24. 2024 Saltwater A mobile tailed baitfish pattern tied with organza and synthetic fibres See how to tie it here

This strange popper came out of Martin Joergensen's vice recently and has already proved its value several times. See why it might be interesting to you, how to tie it (in meticulous details) as well as how it moves - and in video too! And learn why it's called Burning Man.

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Photographing Floating Flies

Surface Getting a decent macro image of a dry fly sitting on water is one of the hardest shots to pull off

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Nov 27. 2024 Video Silver Goat's Toe A popular fly in the North and West of Scotland, the Goat's Toe, is fairly easy to tie, and its variants, like this one aren't much different on that front.	Nov 27. 2024 Video Semper Fleye Big baitfish-imitations need to have the right profile and movement in the water to fool the predators feeding in baitfish.	Nov 27. 2024 Video PE-MO (Peach Monster) For many fly fishermen, winter is a time for fly tying, but if you are really keen on fishing, you can still be able to fish for sea run brown trout in the coastal areas of scandinavia.
Nov 27. 2024 Video Sort of Cougar Minnow In this video I am tying a fly that is mostly inspired by Kelly Galloup's Cougar Minnow.	Nov 27. 2024 Video Caddis Pupa Variant made a fly caddis pupa. also made a video If you have any questions, ask, I'll be glad to answer.	Nov 25. 2024 Video Orange Quill This is GEM Skues' Orange Quill. Skues used this pattern for the BWO on the Itchen and other chalk streams. He confesses he has no idea why it works.

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Scissors for fly tying

What should you look for when choosing fly-tying scissors? Well, that all depends on a number of factors. This article takes an in-depth look at one of the fly tier's most important tools.

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The Klink

Klinked Dutch Hans van Klinken is best known as the originator of the Klinkhåmer Special. This large and beautiful book tells its full story ... and much, much more

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