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I'm new at this, how

I'm new at this, how to these springs work?

I saw a similar pattern in a book about Irish sea trout fishing back in the seventies. the first year or two i tied in the tail and body, however just winding a hackle tied by the butt forward to the eye (over the thread base) gives the same profile. i've tried several colors, my favorite is a dark dun, though white and black work well also. i tie them on #12 dry fly hooks. if i was restricted to a single pattern this would be it. the pattern has taken just about every species of fish i've run into. without weight it fishes dry or wet. it really is an amazing pattern.

Bravo John!
I'll be

Bravo John!
I'll be there next May!
Sue

Tight Lines Frank. G

Tight Lines Frank. Good job, and it seems too me a trophy trout!

There's now another

There's now another one called "Bug-Bond" I haven't tried it yet but from various reports it seems very good.

This was the only pa

This was the only pattern which caught fish. Tie in with Olive, Black, Natural hares ear, and Grey to match your local waters.

I made a house fly p

I made a house fly pattern also but it was a little different. For the eyes I melted the end of monofilament and put on two red seed beads, then melted the other end to form sort of a dumbell. Same body and I just tied a thick parachute style hackle with a white post of calf tail. I tried this pattern yesterday in the native brook stream in front of my house. Landed a 10" brook and a 12 1/4 brook in about 15 minutes! They sure do love the house fly!!!

thats a scary fish

For martin fisher.

For martin fisher.
Hello,
Just try and keep it simple at the start. A good, rod, reel, fly line, some dry and wet flies and some buzzers, landing net and good leaders. It all comes with practice, practice and practice. Mix fullers earth with dish washing liquid to make a paste, rub this lightly on the leader between your finger and thumb before you cast - this sinks the leader.
Hope that his helps. Tight Lines all.

You could tie this i

You could tie this in different sizes to suit the location and the shy fish refusing a larger version. Just go down a size a size and see what happens. Start with Say a size 12 or 10 to start with. I am in Ireland. It would be great lake fly to fish for Brown Trout as it has a bushy appearance like the Irish Lake flies. I would fish it on a sunk leader or tippet.and retrieve it slow and steady.

Dale,

You buy it!

Dale,

You buy it! It's a Marc Petitjean product, available in many stores.
More information on his web page.

Martin

how do you make the

how do you make the magic head???

It's been 10 years s

It's been 10 years since I got a note / email from Martin asking if I had anything at all to put up on GFF's website. Somewhere I think I still have that original correspondence!

I wrote a book column for about a year then like everyone life came at me fast and hard for a few years and the writing was put on a shelf. I see my 'columns' are still here!

Congratulations gentlemen on almost 15 years. You should be proud.

best regards, Jan Normandale / aka "the old fly fisher"

Hello from Arkansas,

Hello from Arkansas, USA! Nice fish!

Have built a few rod

Have built a few rods & fuss & fume at my guide alignment & marvel at the perfect guide placement of commercial makers. So there must be a method to attain this perfection with guides & dots for perfect assembly. Heck mine look O.K. but not as good as theirs. You always want your baby to be perfect.

Leon,

Both contac

Leon,

Both contact and guarantee depends on the manufacturer and since we don't know what brand rod you have, we can't really help.

Martin

hi,can anybody help

hi,can anybody help me i have broken my flyrod and want to repair it in the factory but i can't find no e-mail adress in denmark is it also life garantie?
greatings leon

This is so amazing,

This is so amazing, what a movie. Probably one of the best I've viewed.. can't imagine what it would be like to actually experience this event in person.

You can use a produc

You can use a product called floo glue instead of epoxy for all your flies ie heads and bodies of buzzers, dries really fast and hard, also a superb finnish, try two coats or more, fantastic. All my flies are finnished with floo glue much better i think than varnish