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Being on Instagram

Jan 7. 2021
Blog entry
Social media can be a strange experience. It’s really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

About getting skunked

Dec 17. 2019
Blog entry
A part of fishing is not catching anything. If you’re only in it for the catching, there’s something you have misunderstood.

Does anyone proofread this crap?

Oct 4. 2019
Blog entry
Yes, a non-native English speaker proofreads material from a host of mostly non-English amateur writers, and sometimes errors do slip through
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Article

Einars’ Vulgata Emerger

Mar 11. 2021
Floating This emerger pattern uses CDC and foam to create the floating thorax that’s typical of emerging insects
See the pattern here
Article

Red Tag Revisited

Mar 5. 2021
Origins I always loved the Red Tag. I have tied and fished this fly a thousand times, but tend to basically do it the same way every time. Not so anymore!
See more here
Article

Red Tag Odyssey

Mar 5. 2021
Patterns A bunch of pattern descriptions and materials lists for flies inspired by the Red Tag
See them here
Video

Glove Grub

Mar 3. 2021
Tying a grayling grub from a rubber glove in 3 minutes. A quick easy tie using the rolled edge of an old pink washing up glove and a bit of dubbing.
Article

Nymphing Without An Indicator

Feb 23. 2021
Technique Keeping it simple. Understanding the advantages of nymphing without an indicator and how to do it best.
Read more here
Article

Books that formed me

Feb 3. 2021
Litterature ...as a fly tyer and flyfisher, that is. Other books influenced me as a person, but that’s a whole other story.
See the some of them here
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Videos

Apr 9. 2021
Video

Soft Hackle Dry Fly

This is a really interesting dry fly that ive tied quite a few times for a customer of mine named Andrew.
Apr 9. 2021
Video

Simple Squirrel Zonker

Zonkers and wooly buggers are my two go to streamers for trout... I believe in them that much that i rarely tie any other of them. Of course, i have couple of variations on each.
Apr 9. 2021
Video

Magic Fly

The color "salmon" has within the last few years gained massive popularity. It has proven to be a successfull color for many patterns.
Apr 8. 2021
Video

Cascade Turbo Tube

Materials Used;
Apr 8. 2021
Video

Super Simple Cicada

Detailed instructions for tying a Super Simple Cicada.
Apr 7. 2021
Video

Lunn's Particular

Classic Dry Fly Tying. Please Subscribe & Follow me on my other Socials.
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Review

Chalk and Cheese

Dec 14. 2020
French An English flyfisher acquires a house in France - which just happens to have a chalk stream running its property
Article

Fish Scaled Up

Dec 8. 2020
Large Danish fly angler and professional photographer Søren Skarby got an idea: to photograph fish like they'd never been photographed before
More here
Article

Streamers 365 joins the Global FlyFisher!

Nov 28. 2020
Merger The renowned streamer aficionado site streamers365.com is shutting down, but GFF has "inherited" all its fantastic content.
Read about it here
Article

Swimming Caddis Pupa

Nov 20. 2020
Norwegian This ragged looking caddis pupa from the hands of Norwegian Viggo Larsson will work well on both fast and calm water
See how to tie it here
Review

Simple Flies

Nov 13. 2020
Three materials Simple is good. Not primitive… simple. And this is another fine book with simple fly patterns.
Article

Motley Flies

Nov 12. 2020
Assorted I recently went through my large archive of images. Suddenly I had a whole bunch of fly images. I gathered them into a small gallery.
See it here
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