Outstanding design, and tie. Gorgeous!
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Beautiful fly. I can see why its effective.
The streamers name was a good one.
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Well, surely a beautifull brown trout.
And for me it just proofes that the "Limay Circus" and its countless rafts right now are just disturbing. While catch and release is a state by law and those type spawners regulary caught multible times, I think you would better be off not to proof anything like this before! Because there will be someone unlike you to f... it up!!
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Another magnificent spot in Southern Patagonia is Lake Strobel, also known as Jurassic Lake. This lake is in western Santa Cruz Province (70 km east of the Chilean border) and both the lake and the Barrancoso river that flows into it are home to enormous Rainbows. These gigantic trout can be caught in the Barrancoso river with dry flies. Difficult to get to, I know of two lodges that cater to anglers, Laguna Verde Lodge and the Loop organization that has a camp close to the Barrancoso river.
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Other advantages:
No mixing
Does not smell like epoxy does (at least the Loon product doesn't)
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About a year ago I started using Mr Bond. Mostly just on heads in place of varnish. It does set very hard. Before curing make sure the eye is clear as you will not get it clear after. However, I found that the end result was slightly tacky. If you touch it it will mat.
Now I use the Diamond hard kit with the laser to cure it. It is very fast to cure, one second, though the difference isn't really a factor. It does dry totally tack free, but not as hard as Mr Bond.
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how about adding what the curing uv wavelength of each product is? this would hel in buying a light indipendently of the goos
alcohol wipes are good to remove the tackiness.
sally hansens hard as nails gets rid of any tackiness
not too sure how hand sanitizer adds anything to make the goos hard.
fresh batteries in all lights work best
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Carp are my maen target . Dont sell them short .Thay a grate sport on a fly . Sume more flies and videos would be good if its posable .
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The fly tying is good i liked the Big easy & friends . thay are easy to tye .And look to be right on the muney.
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Robert,
Thanks for the heads up! I didn't know Solarez, but its products look very interesting and at good prices.
I added it to the list.
Martin
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Solarez is a new one on the fly fishing market in the US.
Robert
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Ian,
Thanks for the notice. I added Mr. Bond to the list.
Martin
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Hi,
One addition here is Mr Bond! A very good LCR from the UK that I use all the time.
This is only â¬7 a bottle and it dries 100% clear and glass hard.
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Amazing production. Even the extras are brilliant. I 'm a big RT fan and he keeps on finding these unique areas where the locals live in a microcosm of fly fishing nirvana. It was the same with Zero2Hero too. Hats off for the amount of work that went in to this to give credit (and some needed exposure) to a unique area that most American anglers don't even know about. The driftless area now on my fly fishing bucket list!
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Good to see some new ones . Didnt whatch them all . But will have plenty of avoes when theres not much else doing .So thay will be enjoable .Thanks for that.
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This is the best site on the web . It kept me watching for days .Its grate to have so much information in one place .I well be very happy to hear for you as often as is posible . Thank you very much.
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Great and very inspiring article Martin. One of the things I have come to think about when it comes to shrimp flies is that these very realistic imitations often look entirely different when they get wet which - after all - is how the seatrout sees our flies.
The realistic shrimps tied with a bunch of materials (some of them quite expensive) and a lot of details like rostrum, antennae, segmented back, legs etc. does look convincing when they sit in our vice. However when they are put in water, and even more when they are retrieved through the water, they do, in my opinion, not always look that realistic. Don't get me wrong: the are off course able to catch fish, and occasionally I tie them my self because I simply like to tie flies. However - and quite in line of your Mundane Fly project - I like to keep it simple, and I haven't yet come across a fly which is more realistic in the water than the STF shrimp - at least when you take into consideration how simple it is.
It goes like this:
"Tail": small bunch of STF dubbing.
Eyes: 2 pcs. of burned nylon line.
Body: STF dubbing in a dubbing loop wrapped around the hook.
Brush the whole thing up - and go fishing.
When it's wet the brushed dubbing gives the fly a transparent look, wich in my opinion resembles a shrimp very well.
Tight lines.
Søren.
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I think the pure motivation was to keep the fly rod in the picture, too. A very old and common thing for many fly fishers around the globe. I think it has to do with how much we often prefer to choose fly fishing over other forms of angling?!
I just understand this "new thing" as another form of saying: "This fish was taken on a fly rod."
Greets
Bernd
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Peggy, I am from West Michigan but I got my start in fly tying in Maine. My in-laws lived in Dennysville. I tied salmon hair wing flies. In the past 2 years I have started tying Carrie's files bu for the life me I can no get the wings right.
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There are many copies of this book available by searching www.abebooks.com my favorite used book store on the Internet. Although most of the ~$25 copies are only in good condition, the text should be good enough for careful study.
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