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Dec 25. 2011

Jack Plotts' Foam flies

Foam These foam flies were sent to us 10 years ago, and this article has been long underway... High time we did something about it! Digging into the digital archives we found this bunch of crazy foam flies.

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The LAW of attraction

I was among the lucky fly-tyers who managed to lay my hand on one of Lawrence Waldron's LAW fly-tying vises while he made them - and they could be bought at reasonable prices.

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Bob brought two books

Jul 20. 2019

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GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books

Some books arrived

Jun 19. 2019

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A few things happened during the last couple months that made me think of, buy and read nice fishing books again.

Danish Fly Festival Impressions

Mar 7. 2019

Blog entry

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

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Hair pin intruder shanks

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

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Jul 12. 2019 Video Quilled Yellow Owl Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Super Grub size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Cahill Body, Light Olive Peacock Quill Wing, CDC Feathers and Roe Deer	Jul 8. 2019 Video Large Summer Dun Great Pattern in Summer & Autumn Body made with Foam Hook size 14 Grizzly Cock Hackle with Brown Partridge	Jul 7. 2019 Video Predator Skip shows you how to tie his ultra-popular foam fly, the Predator, in both thin and fat style. Panfish, bass, trout...you name it, fish love it.
Jul 6. 2019 Video Bulkhead - Ultimate Water Pusher! One of the best bass and saltwater flies created in my opinion is the reverse bulkhead fly. This water pushing, flowing, and flashy fly is a variation on Bob Popovics design.	Jul 5. 2019 Video The Wicked Stefan Larsson – The Man, The Myth, The Legend! This swedish flyfisher and flytyer is wellknown in Scandinavia for his passion for troutfishing and best of all with a dryfly.	Jul 5. 2019 Video Songo Smelt Bucktail The Songo Smelt is a sweet little bucktail perfect for casting out in search of cruising landlocked salmon, brook trout and bass.

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Don't tie flies

This is in reality a declaration of love to the art and craft of tying fishing flies with lots of tips for the beginning fly-tyer.

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Feb 23. 2019

The Brown Owl

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

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Article Rotating your bobbin holder Feb 19. 2019 Spin If you want to use the advantages of controlling twist in your tying thread, you need a bobbin holder that allows rotation. Not all do. Learn more here	Article 25 years online! Feb 17. 2019 Celebrating You won’t find many web sites, which have been running for 25 years, and I seriously doubt that any current fly fishing sites have a quarter century long history Read the story 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

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Article River Snook Jul 13. 2019 New water River Fly Fishing for snook in Southwest Florida is an excellent alternative to pursuing this prized gamefish in the mangroves or the open coastal water Read more here.	Article Faroese redemption Jul 4. 2019 Northern fishing Make sure your waders are suited for winter fishing and remember warm socks – as well as a local guide. Then you are ready for the north Atlantic fishing paradise. Read more here
Review Fly Fishing Treasures Jun 30. 2019 I didn’t know that I was interested in collecting fly fishing paraphernalia – until I read Steve Woit’s book	Article Sea Trout CDC&Elk Jun 27. 2019 Caddis The CDC&Elk is a famous and efficient Caddis dry fly. This variation works for Baltic sea trout... and was actually inspired by the bonefish version of the fly See how to tie it here

Review The Brown Trout-Atlantic Salmon Nexus Jun 24. 2019 Trout&Salmon When an author asks you to provide content for a book, it's hard not to think "That's going to be one heck of a book!"	Article Zkinny Jun 20. 2019 Zonker A really simple and easy little baitfish fly, which will work for a lot of different fish and can be varied endlessly See how to tie it here	Article Flies Photo Gadget Jun 17. 2019 Photography This 3D-printed contraption is a fly holder with built in light designed for fly photography. Read a review here.
Article Sea trout and foam flies Jun 14. 2019 In the surface Fishing Baltic sea trout in the surface with waking foam flies can be a lot of fun. Here’s how to do it – and a pattern that works. Learn the tricks here	Article Green Caddis Larvae May 24. 2019 Biology Some say that caddisflies are even more important than mayflies. For us flyfishers that is probably correct. A good caddis pattern can save your day. Learn more here	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

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