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Comment to Eunan Hendron Streamer Collection 2014

Eunan, these are beautiful. I enjoyed viewing your work, thank you!

Comment to Eunan Hendron Streamer Collection 2014

Eunan,
Nicely done collection of Ghosts. I am especially fond of the "Super Ghost".
Jack Devlin, WFF

Eric,

Yes, wary i

Eric,

Yes, wary is the right word. Thanks for noticing.

Martin

You mean wary correc

You mean wary correct? Weary means tired. Wary is another term to describe alertness

Nice hoppers!

Nice hoppers!

Funny, as different as they all are, each one
looks just right.

Best,
PoppyT

Chilimps is not a Da

Chilimps is not a Danish fly as was suggested in a comment on this page, or fly for garfish. It's a Swedish fly which was created by the great fisherman Rolf Vilhelmsson, after a late night at the Walhalla Inn by the river Mörrum in Sweden. This happened in the beginning of the 1940's, witnessed by famous fishermen as Olle Törnblom and Sven Halman, of which the former improved the fly later.
The name refers to the colour of a shrimp, which also gave name to the fly. But, perhaps under the influence of some whisky, the name was altered to the pidginenglish version chillimpi. The day after this Vilhelmsson caught a 20 pounder in the river, noted it in the fishing journal, unfortunately with the last letter barely seen. That's why it's called Chilimps today.
Erik Erlandson-Hammargren

James,

I'm afraid

James,

I'm afraid I can't help you there. This is not a Veevus contact page but an article about the company. Check their web site and ask directly there.

Martin

could you please sen

could you please send me/e-mail me the pound strength of your threads.Also the spool numbers such as A11-------16/0 and B14----------14/0,what do they mean?........................thank you, Jim Kucera

all the flys on this

all the flys on this site are really good,what I would like to know is if and were I can buy the materials to tye these patterns,i love to tye flys that look like they are supposed to be, realistically,can you give me any ideas on were to get these material,s thank you

Amber,

Please con

Amber,

Please contact the photographer Pasi about this. Click on the image and find his contact information in the article.

Martin

hi, I'm interested i

hi, I'm interested in buying a high quality print of this photograph if possible. Could you send me details as to the size and cost of something say upwards of 8x10"? I am looking for a gift for a fly fishing enthusiast so if you have any other recommendations do let me know.

Very very nice fishi

Very very nice fishing i'm glad so much......

My family and i have

My family and i have been coming to yellow creek over 60 years and fishing here has always been a challenge unless you fly fish! Big fish are hard to find. If you camp in pg&e campground be aware it is very over priced for having no garbage service and no utilities.

We love the humbug valley so beautiful!!!

Wow! Great article M

Wow! Great article Martin! It makes me wanna go tomorrow ;-)

Thanks,

Ted

I am based out of Ta

I am based out of Taiwan where there are monster snake heads....can anyone tell me of a website or phone number where I can get a float tube sent to Taiwan? I would appreciate it since the banks on the lakes here are too steep. I want to order from New Zealand or Australia.

Interesting, will tr

Interesting, will try the sinking line, floating fly (perhaps a popper), in the warm flats waters of Florida.
All the best, Mike

Ah the equal sign. That's a

Ah the equal sign. That's a possibility I hadn't thought of. I'll try changing that and test. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Easy enough (for me) to change. Thank you.

Colin,

Colin,

Usually the forum system is very robust, and I've only seen similar problems once before where I recall it as a color profile problem. But as I said, I think the embedding had congestion problems because of the URLs being slightly non-standard with equal signs but used not in the conventional manner.

If you have problems further on, let me know and I'll try to solve it.

Martin

Interesting. The images were

Interesting. The images were edited with GIMP on a Linux box. My images appear well in other places. I'll look into the color profile issue on my side. I know GIMP (it's free, general image manipulation program) does allow configuring the saved color profile in several ways.

I might try a test post from Mac and/or Windows too. But Linux is my main deal. I'm a server side programmer so I like my desktop to mirror the server side environment I'm working on (looks like you are running on an Apache Web Server, running on some flavor of Unix....probably Linux).

Good forum. I'll do my best to make it work.

I saw a mouse on you

I saw a mouse on your site, the only time I saw it was demonstrating a piece of equipment I think It was one of Marc Petitjean visesl Or maybe the regal. I have searched high and low for the patten. It is a really cute one, if I keep the little ones happy I get the time to tie what I want while they are playing with thearjeos .
I promised. All I really remember about it is it has discs that fit tightly together ti nake the body. We heed to make this one of these. I supposed I could try to duplicate it but would rather do it right the first time. Thanks for your time and effort,
Sean M. Mooney

I fm hoping to conta

I fm hoping to contact Paul to get some info about Mullet fishing in Christchurch Harbour as I have seen some Utube videos of him fishing there.

Apologies for slightly abusing this Salmon fishing site but does anyone know a mail address for Paul please?

Pete,

Pete,

I'm stocking up on tubes for my local fishing, and will definitely tie this pattern, especially the lower version, which is more sand eel colored.
I like the compact head and the "airy" body. Simple, good looking, fishy. Just my kind of fly.

Martin

Colin,

Colin,

I have no idea why the images acted so strange. The forum software here didn't like the URL's so I downloaded the images and uploaded them locally and changed the links. That worked.

And for the strangely colored attachment thumbs, I have seen that before, usually caused by strange color profiles. I couldn't see anything wrong, though, but deleted the attachments anyway since the images are now inside the post.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Nice fly BTW. Looks like a real killer.

Martin

Colin.

Colin.

I'll look into the issues with the images.

Martin