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“If a polar bear can do it I sure as hell can’t see why you couldn’t”
ffs, that’s better casting than what i’ve seen a lot of people do and the goofy beasts don’t have thumbs or even hands for that matter… Filed under: fly casting, fly casting videos, humor Tagged: "If...
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Pearsall’s problems ?
not all bobbins are created equal and that can be a little annoying when we want to use ‘out of the norm’ materials such as sexy Pearsall’s silks for tying say, traditional North Country Spiders or...
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blanking, fish coffee and worms.
last time i went fishing i blanked. now onto more interesting stuff. apart from the mandatory rod, reel, line, well organized chest-pack with nippers (well sharpened), forceps, floatant, net, sink...
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Tying the Double Turrel-Turle
not sure if it’s an accent thing that gives us two different ways of spelling it but since it’s the same knot here goes. originally intended as a manner to always have the fly straight inline with the...
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“Going fishing without being able to Spey Cast is like making love with your...
~ Mike Daunt and if goes about it the same way he casts there’s bound to be a few knots involved as well… related articles Spey Casting: the Snap-Slip-Spey the Climbing Curve backslash, backslash,...
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and...
~ Heraclitus although that might sound philosophically correct, it’s not entirely true and goes to show this guy wasn’t a fly fisher. apart from one or two, most ff’ers don’t just sit there staring at...
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“I can’t see us getting a threesome tonight with him in this mood…“
yet another fine example that having set ways in fly fishing leads to misery and blanking… should you wish to piss-off Hitler even more by making these offensive flies yourself, here’s a fine tying...
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Creating a detached body mayfly
a super-sweet step-by-step by tutorial Barry Ord Clarke we’ve already seen several variations of detached-bodied flies and here’s another simple to make version yielding adaptable, resistant and...
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Teal Blue and Silver
by Davie McPhail i’ve always had a few chuckles when thinking of the naming process of a lot of the UK traditional flies. it’s a bit as i where to call myself ‘Semi-Hairless, Semi-Roundish and...
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fitting into tight spaces
by Lee Cummings over the last few years and among a whole lot of other things, Lee’s been doing a lot of research on shooting heads and more particularly, short, mini and micro heads to be used in the...
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Two-For midge Saturday
two fresh-off-the-vise midge patterns from Davie McPhail for a stormy, windy yet lovely midge-filled spring day. first, a very juicy F-fly midge. side note: it is indeed a lovely fly but the only thing...
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for the love of water
related articles for the love of water (253) Filed under: for the love of water, nature photography Tagged: drops, fly fishing, for the love of water, love, nature, nature photography, Outdoors,...
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Tak’s Baetis Emerger
“any fish that wouldn’t find this sexy just doesn’t deserve to be caught” i overheard that quote stream-side years ago but it’s hard to find a better use for it than with this fly designed by Rick...
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flying bait-balls
grouping together to protect themselves from predators, an accepted explanation when smaller fish form baitballs and slightly less certain as to why starlings form murmurations, they nevertheless once...
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for the love of water
Filed under: for the love of water Tagged: fly fishing, for the love of water, love, nature, nature photography, Outdoors, Recreation, water
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Contrasting Nymphs
one very realistic rendition and one that catches fish. apart from being a gorgeous drawing i couldn’t say exactly what species the top one is in the Ephemeroptera/mayfly world but it isn’t a baetis as...
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for the love of water
related articles for the love of water (254) Filed under: for the love of water Tagged: circles, drops, fly fishing, for the love of water, love, nature, nature photography, Outdoors, photography:...
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Flinging
i’m not much into dancing but i’m starting to get sort of a Scottish twitch now and again. the upper Dee sunset swirls the Don Filed under: for the love of water, travel Tagged: Aberdeenshire Scotland,...
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for the love of water
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think big !
more for the novelty aspect rather than the finished result or the method, here’s a parachute dry fly intended for carp on a size 2 circle hook. yes, a size 2 circle hook. contrary to what a lot might...
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