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My wading jacket has

My wading jacket has those side pockets for warming your hands. I put tippets/splitshots/small trash in there. You hardly notice them when you put your hands in, if you empty them often enough. So when you go past a trash can, hand into pocket and out and you are green. This is also the fastest way to dispense little trash that comes while fishing.

When I'm near my backbag, I put the trash that comes during visiting the bag (food wrappers etc.) in there.. So whenever I make trash, I'm either next to the backbag or my pocket. I must admit that my pockets and backbag is filled with trash sometimes, but atleast they are clean trash.

Also I don't understand why there is not a rant about lead. Nowadays it is easy and cheap to replace weights (splitshots, under body etc.) with lead-free materials that doesn't harm the nature as much.

I like both picture

I like both picture and fly. it looks great.

Hi Wayne,

The sma

Hi Wayne,

The smallest size I have tied the fly is 14, I just have not seen smaller sizes of the real insects in our rivers.
For example, if you look at the picture with the real caddis larva and the two flies in my hand, the size of the hook for the flies there is # 8.
And yes, I use much thinner yarn for the smaller flies, may be one half to one third part of this I had showed, it depends on the size of the fly.

Best regards

Rado

Have you ever gone t

Have you ever gone to a smaller size hook like an 18 or 20 and if so, do you recommend maybe spliting the antron in half so that the fly isn't so fat?

For David

David, thanks a lot. it looks really good.

rgds

Hi Pike....The hair is

Hi Pike....The hair is Supreme Hair, the colours are white, olive and black. I have also tied a slightly different one using DNA Holofusion.
Regards David

Material used for this fly

David, the fly looks very interesting. Would you be so kind and could you provide me with the name of hair you used for the body (wing) of this fly? Is it DNA or Ultra hair?

Thanks a lot

Hi guys . Im going to

Hi guys . Im going to Bornholm in april as every year.I have got a problem about wading shoe `s in winter or in early spring. Should I buy any neopren waders as usuall or made from other kind of material which are weight much less and how should I be clothed not to freeze in the sea. Ineed some advivice about this subject :cry:

Sweet! We have a bit

Sweet! We have a bit of that down this way too. And I can say it is good practice for saltwater redfish.

Gareth,
I'm sure we

Gareth,
I'm sure we are going to have a lot of great fishing places when all fishermen understand that they don't have to "eat the ball" to succeed fishing.
Thanks,

Miguel,
I thought a

Miguel,
I thought a lot about that, and finally I decide to write the word "libere" instead of "suelte" in the spanish version. I like it most because the whole action of releasing a fish speaks about an act of freedom: The fisherman is free to decide to let the fish live, and the fish is free again to live, feed and spawn. On the other hand, the logo is being part of some conservation campaigns on places where "catch and release" is absolutely unknown, like local communities near some rivers of the Amazon basin or some places at the pacific coast of South America, directed to people who are learning about that principle for the first time, and a sticker of the logo on a boat talking about freedom could make them forget that they are, in some way, "throwing their lunch to the water" (For some people of the third world, fishing is still a valid way to get all the protein they eat, no matter if they are killing the last fish of the river...)

Best,

Cecelia,

The imag

Cecelia,

The image is copyrighted by FlyCastaway.

You must contact them to get permission.

Martin

The First Springer is Caught on the Blackwater Lodge beats

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Lodge regular Gavin Wishart from Newcastle, Co. Down came down to celebrate his 40th. birthday
this weekend & scooped the First Salmon of the 2010 season to be caught on the Lodge Fishery.

He was fishing on March 6th. with gillie Connie Corcoran on Ballinlovane and took the fish on Flying C at Cloonbeg.
The fish would have been released, but was bleeding from the gills so had to be kept.
The cast before he lost what they both believe was another springer, so there were definitely a few about.
It was hardly surprising that it took us until now to catch a fish as there were only 64 rod days
for the whole month of February. There would certainly be more springers caught if there were
more rods out on the river each day.

[b:c48f94422e][u:c48f94422e]Prospects[/u:c48f94422e][/b:c48f94422e]
There are more fresh fish being seen in the river in the last few days.
The river is in absolutely cracking order at the moment - even for the fly.
0.44m on the gauge so perfect fly height & clarity a good 4 feet.
The weather forecast (Metcheck) looks dry for the next 2 weeks apart from about 6mm on the 15th.
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I got this spinning

I got this spinning block at the Fly tying celebration last week. I love it but I have too get used to not using so much dubbing at one time. If you do a lot of dubbing this is the tool to have...

I would like to get

I would like to get in touch with the photographer and subject in this image - To get their permission to use this image for a printed advert. Please contact me as soon as possible.

I found the adhesive

I found the adhesive backed lead in a walomart in the craft section

Christophe,
 
 Thank

Christophe,

Thanks for your comment!

The inner tubing is generally available from tube material suppliers. Guideline has a large selection and many dealers all over Europe. There are even a few in France.

You can find them on Guideline's web site.

You can also try ordering online. Canadian Tube Fly Company has a very large selection of materials.

Martin

Hello, This is r

Hello,

This is really an outstanding exposé about tube flies.

Could you please tell me where we can get tube lining to attach cones on? I have problems finding some.

Many thanks

christophe

Hi just turned my fi

Hi just turned my first reel seat down. Now I need to know whats the best paint or cover for it.
Thanks for your help!
PS: This is a wonderfull web site and big help for beginners to start with rod building.

Are there any change

Are there any changes in leader design for women as opposed to men?

What I found I like

What I found I like is a 1/3 each mix of the following: rosin, bee's wax, and toliet seal wax (very cheap, $1.24 for a big block, found at any hardware store). To vary the softness, just add more toliet seal wax, as it is a lot softer than bees wax. You can make a wax that is plenty tacky, but is not so soft like Overton's, which I felt was too soft.

Registering

Eric,

If you go to the forum and try to register, you get this message. It contains very clear instructions including a link with my mail-address.

It basically says: Drop me an email at martin@globalflyfisher.com with the subject "GFF, register me" and I'll take care of it. It even has a link to take you directly to your email-program if you use one...

I have you in my queue and will register a few folks including you as soon as this has been submitted.

Martin

Very many stone fly

In your country is very many stone fly and i will try it on spring....Very realistic patern

i'm trying to regist

i'm trying to register get registered on your site, have not been able to find address for "martin.

kindly advise