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where is the best pl

where is the best place to buy the deer creek products and do you get 2 bottles

Nice fly, no apologi

Nice fly, no apologies needed.

Hi,
 I tried one of

Hi,
I tried one of my personal taste and I published some pics on my flickr photo stream.
Search for: flickr sugomoli photostream

Thank you Tom for the inspiring idea!

Max

I am disappointed th

I am disappointed that due to prior commitments, I am unable to make the 3 1/2 hr trip north to the Catskills to attend your special events. Best wishes for an enjoyable trip in every respect. If no other fly does the job, remember Woolly Wisdom, in tiny sizes. Of course, you may disappear without a trace if your fishing partners are diehard hatch matchers.
Have fun.

Martin,
This i

Martin,
This is a neat looking streamlined fly even though it may be a drab earth tone color. Maybe even a pan seared chicken
or burned pasta version, in black, would be a productive fly. It is time to break out the old Jan Simian dubbing brush device.
You are about to embark on another plane ride; pack a tasty food parcel.

Marten, I read the G

Marten, I read the Global Fly Fishing website all the time and find it to be educational and inspiring. I am truly sorry to learn of your health situation. I had to retire three years ago for health reasons. I have Osteo Arthritis, Rhuematoid Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Neuropathy. In addition to these debilitating diseases, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease. You can imagine the constant pain that I am in 24 hours a days 365 days per year. It has finally come down to pain killers because nothing else would help to lesson the pain. Even with pain killers the pain is present all of the time.

I made a realization last year that I was going to fight until my last breath and keep trying new things that interest me. Last year I took my spinner rod and went to a near by lake to wet a line and just to relax and not think about my miseries. While I was there, I saw a gentleman wading down the tributary fly fishing. It was a beautiful thing to watch. I pulled my line in and just watched his artful style. He realized that I stopped fishing and was watching him. He waded over and appogized for interrupting my fishing. I told him that watching him fly fish was a beautiful experience. One thing led to another and he asked if I would like to learn and I of course said yes but I have no equipment. He handed me his rod and gave me a quick lesson. We ended up next to his vehicle and he showed me all of his rods and reels. Then he pulled this large oak box with drawers toward us. He said the second part of fly fishing is creating your own flies. There must have been hundreds of flies in the box. Everyone was a work of art. As far I was concerned the only thing that was hooked that day was me. The rest is history. I've been fly fishing and tying ever since.

I live in Sullivan County, NY about 30 miles from the Catskill Fly Fishing Museum. I'm very happy that you will be coming to our area to experience our beautiful part of the world. There is an area just before the museum that is handicap excessible on the river where you can fish. When I go, I take a high folding chair to sit on because I can't stand for long periods of time either. The State of New York has made a lot of fishing areas handicap excessible. Best of luck and I hope you continue to have "tight" lines for many years to come. I look forward to your articles and enjoy your tips. I have created a lot of tube flies for fresh water fishing and enjoy every minute. Tying takes my mind off of everything else.

Best regards.

Comment to #36-2013 - Silver Raider tied by Dwayne

Very nice work here. I love the overall fly, and choice of materials too.

hi kasper looking to

hi kasper looking to know which mullet flies have you had the best success with .going to give them a try this summer gerard in ireland

Hello Ed,

Thank y

Hello Ed,

Thank you for the comment, but you said that you made one about 70 years ago, can I ask you then, what is your age Ed? I think you must be between 85 and 90 years old at the moment! And still interested in Flyfishing, what is your secret, please tell me!!!!!!!!

Best regards,

Tom.

A very useful fly, m

A very useful fly, make it black with red eyes and smile like me when fishing in our streams in the south of Sweden.

This is a great fly

This is a great fly --used as a giant Muddler Minnow -- that works wonders at Coopers' Minipi Lodges in Labrador where the brook trout average 5.25 lbs. (2.4 kilos)

Pedro, I know o lot

Pedro, I know o lot of places in patagonia, only the publics acces to river and lakes, and this is true that exist to many places to fish. And many public access are too expensive for the services of guides and the cost of living in these places. Tierra del Fuego, Rio Gallegos, Strobel are destinations that are not for any angler, only for those who can spend a little extra money. I fish in cheap places, and fish very well. Happy who can fish in those expensive destinations, this is what I want to point, but this is not for all fly fiherman. If not, tell how much is spent to make a fishery to see if this is cheap or not. I send you greetings, good luck

Comment to About Streamers 365

Awesome site! Ive been tying 3 years now, and within the last year have started tying full dressed Atlantic Salmon flies as well as the more intricate streamers. Mostly freestyle of my own concoctions. I would love to share a few for the site!

Comment to About Streamers 365

Thanks for dropping in and checking out the site Rindy. It looks like we are full for the year already, but why don't you drop me an email with a few pictures of your flies. Perhaps I can share a bit of your work on the site or the facebook page. Cheers

D

Comment to About Streamers 365

streamers365@gmail.com

Nice video. It remin

Nice video. It reminded me of one I made about 70 years ago using a round "Quaker Oats" box. Fly line were very different then compared to hi-tech finishes of today, but cleaning is still important.

There`s one more inf

There`s one more information about buying soft hackles. Of course you can buy by luck very good and not too expensive hen or game bird skins in the local shop`s, but a very, very good idea is to contact "Chevron Hackles" in the UK. I never tied with better hackles! Especially the coloured skins are absolut perfeckt for seatrout- and stillwater flies. Check them out!
Tight lines!

Comment to #35-2013 - Turqoise Noise by Bill Chand

I love sparse flies,i am a firm believer in the less a fish sees of a fly the more effective it can be.The jungle cock nails just finnish it off perfectly.nice one Bill...

Pedro,
Your a

Pedro,
Your article on fly fishing the Rio Grande River in the Tierra del Fuego was filled with interesting facts. You are indeed fortunate to live in Argentina, to have reasonably good, not necessarily easy access, to much good fly fishing. Please write more such informative articles. Reading is traveling in comfort, without the usual inconveniences. Thank you.

Tierra del Fuego and

Tierra del Fuego and most of Patagonia is full of empty space as well as being at the other end of the world, just getting there is quite an undertaking.

There are numerous parts of the Rio Grande, principally close to the sea where access to the river is not limited, except for the need of a fishing license and that catch and release must be practiced.

The fishing Lodges and the local authorities offer a mechanism to local anglers by which a request is made to the authorities and they coordinate with the operators of the lodges free access to the river.

Several guides offer services to out of town fishermen to travel daily to the river based in the city of Rio Grande.

I am sending this to you instead of commenting directly on GFF as I do not want to contribute further to the controversy, publish it if you feel it is appropiate.

Should anyone want to pursue this futher they can contact the local flyfishermen's association:

Asociación Riograndinense de Pesca con Mosca
Montilla 1040 "B"
Rio Grande (9420)
Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
Phone (54) 2964 421268
Email: arpm@ciudad.com.ar

Pedro Alfredo Miles

Pedro,

Nice artic

Pedro,

Nice article!

Some more interesting, straight facts about salmonides introduction in Patagonia (Chile ans Argentine) right here in GFF under: "Patagonian Salmonids"

saludos de Concordia
Heiko

1,5 hours of fightin

1,5 hours of fighting aka killing a Tarpon?

Florian

Kate,

I did go. I

Kate,

I did go. I didn't get to fish much, but had a great time anyway. I'll see if I can compile a few images and post them in a blog entry.

Martin

Thomas: Your example

Thomas: Your example does not proceed, is incoherent, I'm talking about a symbolic good and not a material good. I'm talking about free circulation in national rivers that Argentine Constitution and the Penal Code enables natives. Now the sea or brown are also foreigners? You need to know more about the history of how this resource fishing as a whole took place in Patagonia. And you should know more about the reality of the natives in these places before talking foolishness. It is very easy to pay U.S. $ 5000 for a week of fishing, boarding to a plane and go down to the river and then tell stories about what is not known. Thomas, try to learn more about the topic. Logically, buying a Ferrari is not an injustice, because not serves to to driving on the roads of Patagonia ...