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bob,to me the most i

bob,to me the most important thing that was not mentioned,and probably the one that is always forgoten, is your creativity,unique to every individual,copying a fly or tecnique is easy almost borring after awhile,the beaty of your fly,is your experiance,and as time goes by,and you are willing to experiment with different materials,the marriage of color and flow will come with trial and error,remember there are no rules to creativity,none, to have rules limits your fly and your creativity,the secret, take it to the next generation of tyers,or be imprisoned by the past,the flys of the future are waiting?, Phillip Catania

Hi Liam Tying Hackle

Hi Liam Tying Hackle tips in is very easy, pick two tips out of a cock hackle cape to match size of the fly you want to tie.place one of them on tour knee curve of the hackle facing donwards then place the orther one on top match the tip points together, making sure the second tip curve facing out ie one convex one concave never both the same.Once you have them set together place then on the fly to what length you think is right hold them tight and tie in. Use the same method on Daddies as well have a play. Hope this helps Jan

Kelly,

I don't kn

Kelly,

I don't know what happened to Fly Tying Chronicles, but the cauterizer is available from many other outlets. Search the web for "fly tying cautery" and you will find tonnes.

Martin

The Fly Tying Chroni

The Fly Tying Chronicles link no longer works.

Awesome pattern Stev

Awesome pattern Steve! Thanks for publishing this. My personal patterns have always been more complicated than this, and took a lot longer to tie. This fly looks great, and I look forward to fishing it in '09.

belting pattern

belting pattern

hello. i am a young

hello. i am a young fly tyer, and i do not know how to tie hackle tip wings. mow do you tie them?

I just got a fly tiy

I just got a fly tiying kit and it shows how to tie a "the dark cahill dry fly", could you show me how to tie that because it show's it in black and white very hard to see?

muskrat is one of my

muskrat is one of my most important base mixing furs,mix it with purple haze lite brite in a dubbing loop tied as a wet fly. comb out with a stiff brush, add teal blue marker pen, fading front to back very litely. brush out, colors will explode with a rainbow of shades.the fly above needs to be finished with a thorough brush out, the barrel effect on the body should be almost equal to the tail in effect. under body base should be tied onto wet super glue, as should the head, my flies do not ,come apart.

Marcus,

try korsh

Marcus,

try korsholm.dk or go-fishing.dk

Kasper

This is such a good

This is such a good guide. i got my first fly rod for christmas and i have never had one before. I had no clue how to put these things together. haha. Now i just have to find out how to throw it without it popping so loud. :)

thanks alot for the help

Hi BR

Actually s

Hi BR

Actually some maniac already did carry out that idea! Look at the enclosed picture. The tatoo is a copy of an illustration in a book by the danish specimen hunter Jens Bursell

Tight Lines

Thomas

is there anyone that

is there anyone that knows where i can buy premade eyes? Please a netdite that ships to europe

Re: Kola

Bandit,

Some nice fish in there! Thanks for sharing.

Martin

The trout fishery wh

The trout fishery where i go, people are always leaving line behind, they dont see the days when we cut waterhens a ducks free from discarded line, with many of them with terrible cuts trying to free themselves. So take your old line home and dont be a numpty its simple to do and easy

I Love this tube fly

I Love this tube fly pattern, never done these sort of flies before going to start soon, after getting some tips from the lads who have been tying tube flies for years. Never had the confidence before didnt know what i was doing, but the step by step is just awsome thanks Jan

Hi Ripley,

Good a

Hi Ripley,

Good article. Thanks a lot.!!!
More articles about fly fishing in Lithuania you will find in the Grayling Society jornal.

tomas- flyfisherman. Lithuania
www.lidex.lt

With snow on the gro

With snow on the ground outside, I can still go back, in my thoughts, and relive my last fishing trip, before the snow, thru your pictures. Keep up the good work.

I love the pictures

I love the pictures of you in this one.. you look happy and really content! The best of both worlds... I look forward to hearing more about future adventures!!

This trip sounds won

This trip sounds wonderful.. almost makes me want to go learn how to fly fish! Great pictures and I love the way you were able to tell a wonderful story. I felt like I was there with you!! Thank you for sharing this with me.

I think it was 2850 US

I think it was 2850 US dollars

Mark, This fly is

Mark,

This fly is a far cry from the GP, and certainly no ripoff. As you can see from any recipe on the GP, the techniques used are clearly different although there might be a superficial similarity between the flies - very superficial if you ask me. We have the pattern for Poul Joergensen's GP online here, and you can clearly see the difference. The GP is supposed to look like a shrimp, has a flat back and distinct "eye spots" in the form of the GP tippet. Yes, both flies use red GP body feathers in sections, but that's not really enough to make them identical. This fly has hackles, the GP has flat feathers.

The Omoe Brush is as original as most flies you can think of. You know as well as I do that there are only few truly "original" fly patterns - at least not if you look at flies from that latest half century. New materials, new colors, new ways of combining things, but very few really new patterns. Even though new flies come out our vices spawned by our imaginations, most of them have seen the light of day before in someone else's vice.

Should this fly owe anything to anyone, it's certainly more likely to be the Swedish Ullsok-style, which again owes to the Irish shrimps, which again owe their legacy to even older salmon flies.

No, Ken's fly is original enough, I promise you, and certainly no copy of a General Practitioner. Still I would be delighted to tip my hat to Drury (and so would Ken, I'm sure), but for different reasons than originating this fly! We both tied and fished the GP, and thanks for that, colonel!

Martin

Let's be careful wit

Let's be careful with the term "originator". This fly is another simplification of the the great General Practitioner and other old shrimp flies. The GP is a fly that Ken Abrames has been using and recommending to saltwater fly fishers as a killer clam worm fly for striped bass for a long time. At least tip your hat to Col. Edmund Drury and his GP.

hey,i live in syria

hey,i live in syria may you provide me every thing about grey mullet fishing,the best way to catch it,the best bait,the best time,..............everythings .best regards maher khatib