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Jan 2002 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content
Jan 2002 - All - Editorial, videos, user submitted content
Blend your own dubbing
Almost everyone has the right stuff at their tying bench to make a great batch of dubbing. But not many people know they have everything they need to make an outstanding seal's fur dubbing substitute. This dubbing is a viable replacement for SLF, angora goat and seal's fur, and the trick to making it is so simple it will amaze you!
Distant Waters - The Greatest Fly-fishing Worldwide
R.Valentine Atkinson (ed. and photos) Distant Waters - The Greatest Fly-fishing Worldwide Published by Mitchell Beazley, Great Britain, 1997 ISBN 1-84000-010-4
Muddler mania
It should be no secret that I'm a great fan of muddlers. These functional, characteristic and very beautiful flies that I connect directly with my favorite kind of fishing: night fishing for sea trout in the ocean. The technique used for tying them has always fascinated me, and although I do tie a lot of them, I still have a lot to learn in respect to spinning deer hair.
Golden shiner
This is a well know species that is easily identified. Key characteristics are the strongly compressed rather elliptical body, a small pointed head, strongly downward curving lateral ling, a long sickle-shaped anal fin, and a thin scaleless keel on the midline of the belly behind the pelvic fins.
More golden shiner information in this article
My Fly Box
This is my fly box. The very box that I carry in my chestpack when I go fishing on the Danish coast. It's a hand made Schweitzer mahogany box, if you're interested - the most stylish type of fly box I have ever owned.
GFF screensavers
Great screen savers with fly fishing themes. Nice pictures on your monitor when you are doing nothing.
Tying Flies the Paraloop Way
Dig out your gallows tools, you're gonna need it after you read this book. My first thought was probably the same as yours - what is "paraloop"?
Lee Wulff
Lee Wulff was a quintessential fly-fisherman. From earliest childhood growing up in Alaska, Lee and the outdoors were two intertwined threads in the pattern of a long and accomplished life.
Muddler mania - Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler
Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler
Materials:
HookKamasanConeSlender brass coneThreadTanRibOval silver tinselBodyMedium flat silver tinselWing/tailZonker strip from mink or nutriaHead/collarNatura...
Pattern here
Muddler mania - Small Polar Muddler
Small Polar Muddler
Materials:
Hook
Partridge John Holden (GRS S4) size 8
Thread
Black
Tail
Black Arctic (AKA Polar) fox, approx. shank length
...
Pattern here
Jean-Marc Klees
Interests focus on: Firearms, Horses, Literature, Magazines, Scuba Diving, Whitewater Canoeing. I'm definitely a fan of Ernest Hemingway and Zane Grey, not to forget the Whiskies of the World!
Read the bio here
Peter Frailey
Pete Frailey lives with his wife and three teenage children in Carlisle, Massachusetts, some 30 miles west of Boston.
See a short bio here
Harry Boyd
GFF's own bamboo rod expert and maker of these beautiful rods. Best known for his extremely popular series on making your own bamboo rods.
Read more about Harry here
The Rocket
During a recent gettogether with some Danish flyfishers I hauled out some of my cod flies. One of them was this one - The Rocket. They were quite excited about the fly - first of all because it's a light tube fly, second because it's very durable. They saw in it not only the cod fly that I had made, but also a pike fly, a fly for pike perch and a universal fly for all kinds of deep fishing for larger fish.
The Orange Silver
A fly which is just a piece of imagination created one evenning in march. I have been fooling around with a plain type of steelhead or salmon flies this last year. These are all signified by simple feather wings and the use of classic materials like floss, tinsel and plain feathers
See the pattern description here
Dalby Revenger
This was one of the first flies I tied with a rabbit skin I got dyed with picric acid. The innovations found in this pattern are limited - to put it mildly - not much new under the sun here. The color is also far from any color found in food items digested by sea trout.
Loch Dhu Salmon
A pattern for salmon in the summer dusk. A salmon fly inspired by the Scottish pattern named after the lake Loch Dhu
St. Croix Legend Ultra
St. Croix has long been known for superior spin-fishing rods... until know. Read the review here.
Distant Waters
You'll be enchanted and tempted by R.Valentine Atkinson's book with pictures of fly fishing destinations all over the world and thrilled and entertained by the accompanying texts written by the greatest contemporary writers. Read the full review here.
Rod building
Tom Kirkman's book "Rod Building Guide" is a cover-to-cover brain dump of the author's experience building all manner of fishing rods. He doesn't tell the reader as much how to do things, as he does why, and almost as importantly, why not.
Read Bob Petti's review here.
Beginner's Guide to Flytying
European authors Chris Mann and Terry Griffiths angle for a new spin on beginner flytying books. With barely a photograph and just a small piece on materials and tools, see why this book gets a rare score on the GFF Review scale. GFF partner Steve Schweitzer reviews the book.
Inspiration
Made as an inspirational addendum to the article Muddler Mania.
Micro Reindeer Muddler
New Jersey Monster
Fernandez'Muddler Minnow
Claret Saccarina
Flathead Or...
See some pictures here
Tying a muddler
The most important step in preparation is getting the right kind of hair. Buy your hair at a reliable source. Good spinning hair patches are dense and have little underfur. The single natural hair should be dull and light at the base, slightly waved at the root, and have a short tapered tan/black tip section.
Monster Muddler
Brown Monster Muddler
Materials:
HookLarge but light pike hook size 1/0-6/0ThreadBrownTail4-6 badger or furnace hackle feathersRibOval silver tinselBodyBrown dubbing or brown chenilleWing4-6...
Salt Water Caddis
Salt Water Caddis
Materials:
HookMustad 34011 size 6-10ThreadOliveRib
Gray ostrich herlBodyNatural or olive hare's mask dubbingHead/collarOlive deer hair
Tying instructions:
Tie in the os...
Turbo Block
Siman Ltd. has taken the Turbo dubbing twister a step further with this tool, which enables you to easily make your own dubbing brushes - stiff or soft and from almost any dubbing material.
Read the review by Martin Joergensen.
Fly fishing leaders and tippets
Leaders fall in several categories. These all serve the same purpose: transmitting the energy fra the fly line to the fly in a gentle, yet firm way. The different types each have their advantages and disadvantages, and selecting one is often a question of compromises.
The High Sierras
Join webmaster Martin Joergensen on a hectic trip through the Northern California fishing for stocked, wild and native trout with his friend Rich Lobrowich
Take a road trip here
Yellowstone
On horseback into the pristine areas of Yeallowstone in pursuit for cutthroats. Read Hamilton Brocious' fantastic story from a wilderness fishing camp with ready access to wild native cutthroat trout. So isolated that you won't see any other fishing groups during your whole stay.
Trust me, Mon!
How would you like a story that features blue sky, clear water, bonefish galore - not to mention The Mother of all hangovers and the greatest fishing spot on the face of this earth? Well, you get it all here in Paul Slaney's fantastic three piece story from the Bahamas. Trust me, Mon!
A long story here
Whip fisnish with your hands
Whip finishing without a tool is not at all difficult. Lots of people use and praise the whip finishing tool which comes in many variations.
Good floss work
I've developed a habit instilled in me by my salmonfly tying mentors. When evaluating the salmon fly dressings of others, I look at the floss work first. It is a key characteristic that determines and shows the skills of the cream of the crop.
Thread control
If you ever saw skilled tyers tie, you'll probably have noticed that many of them keep spinning the bobinholder more or less vividly every time the let go of it. If you didn't notice, try looking the next time you see a 'pro' tie.
Knots for the fly fisherman
The discussion of knots seems endless. We probably never will know exactly which knot is the best, and the ultimate knot has not yet been tied. We list the following knots in a knot table and show how to tie them one by one -- with a little comment attached.
GFF speaks
Contact us about speaking at your next outing, meeting or event. We utilize state-of-the art imaging technology to present multi-media and animated slideshows covering a wide-range of topics. When presenting flytying, we tailor the discussion to the group's interest and actively involve everyone.
Read more here
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