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Submitted by Raymond 1737246333 on

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thank u for sharing i was trying to tie one yesterday and now u made it easier for me .

Good mornind Donald,
I even tied a few myself. I thought an American pattern recommended by a Scotsman might catch fish in Germany. :)
So far the fishing in my club water has been marginal due to the late cold spell we had here.
Monday Tuesday it is going to be the salt in Denmark
TL
Florian

Hi!
The picture is great! I appreciate all the advice. Thanks! :D

A friend of mine uses Craft fur placed into the loop instead of spey feathers. Then the fly is brushed by comb and the fly looks very similar to the spey original and it is more durable. And the craft fur costs only 6 or 7 USD.

Submitted by Raymond 1737246333 on

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I was looking for a site like this one for a long time,now that i found yours i deleted others ,it covers so much and from all around the world,it is from far the best fly fishing site thank u and i share it to my fly fishing friends .

Submitted by Raymond 1737246333 on

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Salmon fly fishing is so enjoyable from one end of the world to the other,i am in Newbrunswick Canada and watching it from another part of the world makes it majetic,thank you for sharing.

Submitted by Raymond 1737246333 on

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very nice i really enjoy your way of explaining your fly tying ,thank you.

Hello hares ear, this color scheme was tied for conditions of low light or stained water and primarily for Stripers in the California Delta !
The hook is from the local fly shop #tfs 7258 salt water size 2, strong hook and a sharp point !

Submitted by Robin R on

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That is one good looking streamer. And, in addition to aesthetics, it will also surely catch some fish.

Submitted by Rod Hart on

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Martin Hi! I have found the US including North Americas Amazon Outlet to be the most expensive with books always being unavailable at the time of asking, but mysteriously appearing a few days to a week later at a very obviously inflated price having never appeared on the for sale index applicable to that specific seller. American fly fishing items across the board seem to increase in value immediately Europe or the United Kingdom is mentioned in the UK importers mearly change the US $ sign to pounds or Euro's then add the taxes applicable to that country which doubles the cost of the item for no effort on behalf of the dealer and defintely No cost to him/her either but, makes them a grand profit without stroking a bat. Bless the poor souls. A recent article on one of the tying sites clearly points out the fact that US fly takle firms are ripping European and British fly fishers of at every turn.
Tight Lines and thank you for the effort you put into this site and the Wealth of Information the site makes available to everyone for free.

Submitted by Sigi Bramley-Gonnsen on

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Ach, Preben, it is eight years too late, that I remember your name. That and your character were mentioned many a time by my late husband Alan Bramley, then of Partridge of Redditch. I think, he visited you a number of times and enjoyed keeping in touch with you. And now, 11 years after Alan passed away, I find myself back in Germany for a lot of my time, very near the border to Denmark with its lovely small trout streams where Alan would give Jim Nice's flies a good swim whenever we visited my former homepatch here in Nordfriesland.
My thoughts were turning to that wee 6ft splitcane 'Evening Rise' , crafted by Tom Moran in the eighties, and still lying here virginal in its beautiful Danish Palisander wood case, waiting like Sleeping Beauty, to be awakened with a magic touch to the flyfisher's rythmical swing. "I would like you to present me with a short splitcane flyrod for our wedding, so that when I'm sixty and you are no longer any serious competition, I can take up flyfishing". So there it lay on our bed on the morning of our wedding.

Well, soon I'll be 54, and it seems about time I started to search out those wee streams so loved by Alan again.
But who can teach me now to cast and tie flies? So Preben came suddenly to mind and I dived into the internet only to find that he also had passed on. May he continue to enjoy dabbling his flies in the eternal heavenly river and remain as young at heart as he evidently was in real life...
And I, for the rest of my life, can be sorry that I never met you, whose wit and character shone through even just in Alan's talking about you.

How often did you fish this pattern and how many fish of which kind did you catch . thanks a lot for your ideas. I use packaging materials also. So patterns and funny ideas on how to use waste is always welcome
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