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History on the Fly - Mary Orvis Marbury flies

Oct 28. 2024
In this episode of History On The Fly from Eric Austin's 25 October 2024 presentation, Mary Orvis Marbury fly patterns are featured. As always, Eric offers an excellent presentation.
Article

Dmitriy Lesnov’s Salmon Flies

Jul 2. 2024
Classics When on social media of various kinds, you bump into some very talented people now and then. Belarusian Dmitriy Lesnov is one of those talents
Read about Lesnov here
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Blue Charm

May 23. 2024
This small simple feathewinged salmon fly is probably one of the most well-known salmon flies of the Simple Strip Wing family.
Review

Innes’ books on salmon flies and salmon fishing

Jul 29. 2022
Trio Some books tend to go under the radar, but are still small gems of knowledge, history ... and fly patterns ... These books from 2016/17 have been hiding in my shelf for way too long.
Review

The Atlantic Salmon Fly

Jan 9. 2020
Art Why review a 30-year old book? Well, because it's a great book that deserves some attention.
Review

Hardy’s Salmon Flies

Dec 11. 2019
Catalog Another massive work on classic salmon flies from UK writer Martin Lanigan-O'Keeffe, this time on the flies from the House of Hardy.
Video

Making your own Substitute Gut

Nov 1. 2019
Making your own twisted gut for tying on a blind eye hook for classic salmon flies.
Review

Fly Fishing Treasures

Jun 30. 2019
I didn’t know that I was interested in collecting fly fishing paraphernalia – until I read Steve Woit’s book
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Mar Lodge

Jun 1. 2019
Classic salmon flies doesn't need to be extremely complicated and projects of many hours behind the vice and use of expensive materials from a forgotten time.
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Adding a wing to a classic salmon fly

Feb 27. 2019
In this video I demonstrate on how to add a feather wing to a classic salmon fly.
Article

Merry Christmas 2018

Dec 14. 2018
Holiday Another year passed, and the Global FlyFisher still tugs along, quietly, continuously expanding, larger than ever, celebrating its 24th Christmas
See the fly here
Article

Green Highlander

Dec 8. 2018
Full dressed Another beautiful, full dressed salmon fly from Italian Stefano Farkas. This time a Green Highlander.
See the full fly here
Review

The Feather Thief

May 21. 2018
Full dressed A fascinating "true crime" story that tells about the theft of skins from protected bird from a natural history museum in the UK with the purpose of using them for fly tying
Article

Farkas' doubles

Apr 16. 2018
Classics I get regular mails from Italian master salmon fly tyer Stefano Farkas. A couple of his recent flies were special.
See the flies here
Article

Homage to Carrie Stevens

Feb 18. 2018
Classic Italian master fly tyer Stefano Farkas has tied a Carrie Stevens streamer in the style of his full dressed salmon flies.
See the pictures here

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