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Submitted by Gilles Rondot on

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Thanks very much for your fabulous site If it was also in French I would be very very happy

Submitted by Chris on

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Try looking on Ebay for your Jungle Cock cape; but instead of looking under fly tying materials try looking under feathers for making jewelry. I tried this on a whim and wound up getting a beautiful #1 cape for $100.00. Lesser capes in the fly tying materials section were going for at least what I paid and most had bids on them. I was the only one who bid on the one I got.

Submitted by Kim Sørensen on

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Yes. I am using sinking line when fishing with that type of flies......... Kim

Submitted by mike arritt on

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Dunc was one of the finest person I have ever known. He is missed by everyone who knew him ! God Bless HIM ! Mike Arritt

Daniel,

Thanks for writing.

CP and MS at once! Some people have all the luck, huh?
I know you can live with these diseases. My own MS is under control and I'm doing fairly well. My wife and I have been a part time foster family for a boy with CP since he was 5 (he turns 13 next year), and he is also doing fine and almost always in a good mood in spite of being paraplegic and spastic.
Even though both he and I have our problems, we both live a good life (and a lot of fun racing in our wheelchairs). I can imagine having both diseases at once is really hard, but I hope that both she and you in her family cope and that you manage to go fishing together.

I have had great use of my small pontoon boat and kayaks, enabling me to go on the water, and I'm also able to fish from a boat, which has brought me some nice experiences.

Best wishes for the future to her and the whole family.

Martin

Submitted by Daniel Kim on

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Martin. You took my heart away while reading the article. I also have a handicapped daughter with MS added to quadra palsy. I know now I could do something more for her to keep her enthusiasm with fishing. Thanks for great life mentoring lesson. I also hope you constantly to find adaptation to ever changing fishing conditions.
Wish you all the best.
Daniel

Submitted by Don Prater on

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The Griffith Knat is definitely a killer fly Thank You Jim for all You do too educate us fly tiers on tying flies.I couldn't begin too tell You how much I've learned..Don. P Commerce Ga.

Stan,

I bought mine in Denmark, but don't remember where. It should be widely available in different forms online and in physical shops, but a fair warning: it's totally useless for tying tube flies. The tube will come loose and spin freely on the mandrel no matter how much you tighten it.

Martin

Submitted by larry pauley on

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I have all of Oliver dvds and have found them all very great what Ineed to know is if you can help me find the flat lead that Isee the other tyers us larrypauley

Submitted by Mark Chamblee on

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Assuming the tarpon were not tagged, this guide has a problem with ethics.

Submitted by Marv Meng on

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Was this turning rig home built, or is it available commercially? Are the parts available commercially?
Thank you,

Submitted by sajjd hyder laskar on

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i am from india and had been carp fishing for quite a long time and thank u very much for showing me the way to catch trout using fly fishing without using the fly rod.

Dear Martin,
sorry to hear about your legs. hope it will improve soon.
I am astonished to hear that a canoe does not offer better results of fish. Usually all who fish using a bellyboat or more say it brings more and bigger fish. That sounds reasonable. So many places are not to be reached without a boat. Maybe some more anglers will tell us whether the success is being limited by using a sitontop, a belly boat or something alike. Could it be the Net Time fishing with a boat is more limited - which avoids a better result? I myself never had a better success then to kayak with a streamer or little wobbler behind me. Just 10 meters of line and nothing more.

thight lines and good luck

Pit

Hi Martin.
In Bulgaria we have several colors ladybugs. Besides the color, they also differ in the number of points (from four to eight).
Here are two of a kind:
Red Ladybug, with seven or eight black points.
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Black Ladybug, with four red points.
[img:2bd8ef8aa9]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Huf1jklJ0HM/VEkYK_rhCGI/AAAAAAAAHPU/…]

[img:2bd8ef8aa9]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-N1kByd95uag/VEkZI7Lv1fI/AAAAAAAAHPc/…]

[img:2bd8ef8aa9]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-212jcF-iCT0/VEkZLqbjGYI/AAAAAAAAHPk/…]

There are and light beige Ladybugs, but I no picture.
All the best.
Miro

Two new versions of an old mine fly.

[b:4c2ec625df]Pine-cone[/b:4c2ec625df] (Nymph variant):
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[img:4c2ec625df]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-D_03Tu7TaQc/VFlC71gmHSI/AAAAAAAAHS4/…]

[img:4c2ec625df]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rbENHbV9QMA/VFlC-B29ziI/AAAAAAAAHTA/…]

And
[b:4c2ec625df]Pine-cone[/b:4c2ec625df] (Dry variant):
[img:4c2ec625df]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HXAXwilS-dE/VFlDM3RhfjI/AAAAAAAAHTo/…]

[img:4c2ec625df]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-pSrVxm2z2mE/VFlDTRM-qnI/AAAAAAAAHT4/…]

All the best.
Miro

[quote:bf0eda3692="Martin Joergensen"]Colin,
A great way to approach fly tying......
Martin[/quote:bf0eda3692]

Thank you Martin. I started thinking about models to work toward a long time ago. But it took time and effort to slowly transition from "ephemeral background idea" to actually working and tying that way. Now I'm addicted to it.

I want a dried bug or good photographs on hand for every fly that actually imitates something. Now I even a model of some kind for attractor flies that don't imitate anything. If I'm tying a Prince Nymph, for instance, I want a good-looking Prince Nymph next to my vise as I get started. Or maybe a row of good-looking attractors to improvise on.

Starting out with vise and imagination alone all too often leads to a fuzzy mess.

Colin,

A great way to approach fly tying. Many tyers tie from fantasy and imagination - like many of those tying my pet peeve the shrimp. I sometimes find it hard to believe that they ever saw a live shrimp.

Caddis are also a fascinating animal, and many caddis patterns do a good job of imitating them with few materials and simple tying steps. You seem to be well on your way.

Martin

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