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thnx. for your revie

thnx. for your review...just bought this book.

Comment to #13 - The Maine Game Warden Streamer Fl

If anyone is interested in a copy of the Catch and Release artwork by David Footer, featuring the Maine Game Warden streamer, check here - http://davidfooter.com/?df_product=catch-release-2

Comment to #20 - Supervisor

You both did a wonderful job on the Supervisor. Thank you for the wonderful homage to Joseph S. Stickney's iconic streamer.

Comment to #20 - Supervisor

Don, these streamers are outstanding. I am going to have to try tying some of these.

Comment to #20 - Supervisor

Love the colors on this streamer. Beautifully tied.

Comment to Harri Lehtonen

great fly,looking forward to seeing more from you

Comment to Don Bastian

nice job Don on a beautiful old classic fly

Thanks for this site

Thanks for this site. I am still new to fly fishing, but it has taken over my life. And now I'm tying my own flies! Lot's of fun and with a site like this... it's getting scary about the amount of flies I am tying!

Ok... I really like

Ok... I really like the way Davie does his video's. My problem is what am I going to do with all the flies I've been making after watching these video's?

Good Video... I will

Good Video... I will try this one too!

And Yet another grea

And Yet another great fly tying video! I'm getting this down too!

Brad,

If you hold

Brad,

If you hold the rod with your left hand, the handle should be on the right side of the reel so that you can wind with your right hand. Looking at the reel from the handle side, it should wind the line in when turned clockwise and spin counterclockwise when you pull line off the reel. Remember that the reel hangs under the rod and the reel foot is up and that the line comes out from the underside of the reel. Any braking action should also happen when you pull line off the reel.

Martin

Ralph,

As most on

Ralph,

As most on zonkers, the tail can wrap around the hook, but I haven't found it to be a massive problem, and even with the fairly long tail it works fine for me. It happens, but I check the fly regularly and untangle it if there's trouble.
As usual when fishing heavier flies and stuff that can tangle, I can recommend a slower casting stroke. That keeps things from tangling quite as much as the wildly energetic double hauls that people seem to love these days - at least on our coasts.

Martin

Florian,

Florian,

I never tied or fished any of the double hook/wire thingamajigs. I'd hate tying them and honestly, most of them don't look that convincing once they get in the water because they use pretty stiff wire. I have seen some tied with marabou and spun spinning line (GSP, Dyneema, Fireline type) and they look OK.

The steelhead fly called the MOAL (Mother Of All Leeches) is also pretty convincing. I'm working on an article about the MOAL. I wouldn't probably tie and fish it myself on a regular basis, but it's pretty successful in the northwestern US and BC.

For my own use I stand by the Woolly Bugger style, the Omoe Brush and the zonker pattern that I tied for the first time some years ago.

Martin

I wanted to say than

I wanted to say thanks for showing me, and everyone else just how easy it can be to make great flies! Two thumbs up my friend!

Another great video.

Another great video. Thanks so much!!!

Very good video. I w

Very good video. I will tie this one later tonight! Thanks

Martin,

Martin,
thanks for the reply, this work thing is geting to all of us.

I have just returned from aone day fly in and out deal to our head office and am hangin out in a hotel because I am going to teach a little about fish to nutritional students tomorow.

Thanks for sharing the worm pattern as well, there are fairly complicated patterns on double hook rigs connected by fishing line or wire which one can get a knot in the fingers while trying to ty them. Yours looks very pragmatic,
TL
Florian

Martin, very nice an

Martin, very nice and easy fly. I like it.

Btw: Very good idea with The Mundane Fly Project. I am looking forward to see next flies.

if i'm holding the r

if i'm holding the rod in my left hand the winder is on the right side of the reel which way is the reel suppose to spin?

I am a just starting

I am a just starting out fly fisher and tyer. I love to watch and very slowly learn the art of fly tying.
Thank for this great web site

Hello!
A very simpl

Hello!
A very simple and versatile fly as I like it most, being more a fisher than a tyer.
But doesn't it have the drawback of fouling much too often?!?
Ralph Hertling
Berlin

Florian,

Florian,

Sorry I'm a ittle late with a reply here, but things have been hectic workwise.

Regarding the worm hatches, I actualy don't think that it's temperature alone, but rather the length of the day and the moon phase in combination with temperatures that has the greatest influence. I have no specific knowledge about when to expect the first clam worms, but here in Denmark we see them in late February and during March, and only after certain circumstances meet.

I personally only experienced a real worm hatch once or twice.

Martin

Peter,

This is no

Peter,

This is not a club of any sort, but votes simply don't grow on trees. We cannot force people to vote, and as long as your picture doen's have three votes, it has no score.

Regarding bad scores it does happen the images are treated unfairly by multiple really bad votes (or the opposite), which I control on a regular basis and clean up, but apart from that the voting generally seems to be OK and quite fair for most images.

Of course having more than 3,000 images and 45,000 votes makes it a bit cumbersome to check everything manually.

...and I can only see one picture on this email-address and five others with the name Pete Bratt and a different address - a mac.com-address. Are they yours and do you want them listed under one name/account?

Martin