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Comment to #83-2013 - Gierach's Little Brown Trout

I like the look of this fly. Would a pearl mylar tube work instead of the pearl tinsel to cover the floss?

hi tom. Can you expl

hi tom. Can you explain the functions of the gear wheel

Requesting the Balla

Requesting the Ballathie House fly recipe. Stayed for ~10 days and had a marvelous time! Beautiful fly displayed in the bar and would love to recreate for a shadowbox for myself. Did not have enough time to preplan & schedule a reservation on the beat along the river Tay...though it wasn't 200 feet from our room window. Cannot recommend the hotel enough for any traveler! Incredible food & staff attention!!!

Comment to #85-2013 - Miss Allaura tied by Steve L

Well done Steve, these would make great rainbow fry lures..

Comment to #85-2013 - Miss Allaura tied by Steve L

Steve, I really really liked this one!!!

What a wonderful sto

What a wonderful story! Is this coming out in theaters or DVD release?

Thanks,

Ben

Adam,

Thanks for

Adam,

Thanks for sharing your Glitter John pattern with us. I also really appreciate the photo's of the trout stream in the picture. Enough to further ask of you: "Where would you say this stream is located?" It looks like wonderful stream to fish for trout.

great bass fishing o

great bass fishing on a beautiful section of river ,here in the us I fish a short rod with popers for smallies,, I had a trip to Victoria ,on the lodon river near the town of newstead and caught some huge redfin and actualy saw a few brown trout cruising the grass, wag tails every where and the call of the kooabura,,pure heaven,,, I loved it....

I am totally new to

I am totally new to fly fishing and fly tying. I would like to thank you for the easy instructions for tying flies, but my problem is I have no idea what the difference is in a wet and dry fly. Could you possibly give me a guideline so that I will know what to use and how to differentiate between them. Thanks very much.

THANKS A GREAT FLY,

THANKS A GREAT FLY, I just picked up some of These feathers on my riverbank and used them to bind a handfull of variations . They look great they jigg great and I will try them as perch flies

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Tyler, I work for a

Tyler, I work for a Norway company in Colombia and the Altillanura. i'm a fly fishing buff. If you need to know where to fish, please let me know. Carlos is my friend since 15 years ago and with another firiends we make fishing trips to that zone.

Comment to #84-2013 - MacTavish Red by Scott Murdo

Very nicely done, your fly is simply elegant.

If anyone without ac

If anyone without access to a dog needs dog hair - just go to a dog hairdresser. They will give you more then just a big bag full of it.

I have seen these an

I have seen these and they are pretty amazing. Very realistic. It certianly shows the changes in the past few years.

Comment to #83-2013 - Gierach's Little Brown Trout

Bob,
Another beauty !!!!
Perfect looking eye ...Very nice work.

Comment to #83-2013 - Gierach's Little Brown Trout

Bob, this is exquisite. Incredible. I adore this fly. :-)

These are great idea

These are great ideas. Even as a commercial tyer I have never thought oft here kinds of ideas. I am a big streamer tyre as well and whenever I can get a chance I tie a few of the streamer and Spey style salmon fly patterns found on this website and on other resources. Please get back to me on any good flies to tie. Also, if you know of a good, cheaper place to get actual jungle cocks please inform me. They don't sell them for the cheap in fly shops in Colorado. I would love to start tying more different fly with artificial jungle cocks because I have easy access to them. Do you know of any patterns to start with. I would love to contact you with more useful hints and inventions I have used as a commercial tyer. I find that running a string on the ceiling to clip your materials to, with strings attached to the materials to pull them down. I am in need of a better fly dryer like your Cabelas one. Do you know of any other good commercial size ones.

Comment to #145 - Black Beauty

This fly works well , too! Be sure to fish this pattern.

Larry Walker, person

Larry Walker, personally taught me how to use his very own dubbing tool....over 25 years ago....Saturday mornings at his fly shop in northwest Denver. So whateer happened to Larry...last i heard, he was in Steamboat Springs. Is he still out that way...cause I would love to go see him.

Comment to #82-2013 - Doctor Oatman Hairwing tied

Bob, that is a great looking fly there! Well done!!!

Actuallly Wardman is

Actuallly Wardman is not necessarily wrong. Many dimmers are rheostat designs (you can find them by web-surfing). There was a time when they all were, but rheostats don't reduce power consumption (they only route a portion of the current away from the appliance load), so many dimmers are instead now done with solid state components that "pinch off" the current). Yes, true, you may have to be careful which one you buy...and you have to pay close attention to the current rating of the rheostat, even if you choose a rheostat fan motor control. Clearly Wardman has tried it successfully (or he wouldn't have recommended it), so he picked the right one. (And if you pick the wrong one, I think you don't really risk burning up your drill motor...but the rheostat can overheat and fail (and could get hot enough to start a fire, for example if you "control" your single-speed drill down to a really slow speed to use as a rod dryer, and then walk away and let it run unsupervised).

You ALWAYS have to check current ratings on anything you use, for that matter.

Hello,
I actually h

Hello,
I actually have a question for you...do you know from your books, which fly was "invented" by F M Walbran after an exasperating autumn days fishing for grayling on the R. Wharfe in 1888? ~ Would you believe this is a question in the Epsom Angling Society's Christmas Quiz! As coarse fisherman in Surrey, England I doubt most of them have ever caught a grayling let alone on an 1888 pattern fly.. Thank you very much. Kind regards.

Hi Martin,

You kn

Hi Martin,

You know I am shameless - I will take advantage of your offer.
I hope I can make it sometime in early 2014 - don' t know yet - it also depends on the domestic autority' s approval ;-)
If you come to the Eifel region let me know - I have finally found two opportunities where I can take guest fishermen!!!

Happy Friday

Franz

Comment to #81-2013 - Silver Doctor Variant tied b

Now that is a beautiful fly, well done!!