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Great article, lots

Great article, lots of flies that will be in my box this season. Really enjoyed this one!!!

Nice presentation an

Nice presentation and photos. I would like to hear about a 2011 streamer swap. I would like to sent in a few flies. Charlie Mann, Winthrop.Maine.

Good article, love t

Good article, love the old classic's, there are so many my 2 favorites to tye are the royal coachman, & the coachman still work after all these years.

Nice streamers.

Nice streamers.

Bob,

Call them do

Bob,

Call them dowels, pegs or whatever... they are essentially small pieces of cylindrical wood. I make my own from pieces of round wood, which I buy in craft or hobby stores. Places like Micheal's in the US or stores where you buy things for model building (planes, cars etc.) should be a good option. Buy the pegs by the foot in different suitable diameters and cut them using a sharp knife on a firm surface. Simply press the knife onto the peg and roll it while cutting. That will ensure a nice cut with no fraying.

Use some fine sandpaper to clean the ends when done, and you can produce dowels in any thickness and length you might fancy.

You can even vary the type of wood and use both fir or pine as well as more exotic hardwoods.

Hope this works out for you.

Martin

Greetings,

I have

Greetings,

I have done quite a bit of fly mounting using the tube method of attaching the flies. I now have a few flies to mount that I would like to use a wooden dowel as a post. In this small size, are they still called dowels? Would you be so kind as to tell me where you can find the very small dowels? What type store? Any assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

Bob

Hi Martin
Every sin

Hi Martin
Every single foto in this page makes me dream and drool. Good waterscapes makes the world go around...

THANK YOU!!

THANK YOU!!

Roy,

Manufacturer

Roy,

Manufacturers of rods, reel, line...? Which rod, reel and line? Something in one of the pictures?

Martin

Connie,

The feath

Connie,

The feathers will most likely be fine after the chicken has been dunked and plucked, but it will be pure mayhem to sort them and make them ready for tying.
You will need to separate all good and useful feathers from all the down and the feathers, which have been ruined while plucking.
I don't think the scolding as such will do any harm to the feathers, but as you can almost guess when you see the pile of feathers after plucking, it's the chore of sorting that's big.

Having the feathers on the skin is so much better for the tier.

Martin

I would think dunkin

I would think dunking the bird in hot water or any water would ruin the feathers for selling or using for making ties. Can you still dunk the bird in hot water to loosen the feathers and then use the feathers?

I have made these fo

I have made these for a while as well. One touch that I add is after I get the pieces assembled, I will lightly sand the parts, and clean them well. Then I will spray the tube with a can of spray-on bedliner bought from AdvanceAuto. I will do a few coats, and increase my distance from the tube on the 2nd or 3rd coat to add more texture. It creates a very tough finish and has lasted me quite a while.

I tied this fly & th

I tied this fly & the next morning the Chewee skin disintegrated, what did I do wrong?

Eneias...
Is video

Eneias...
Is video flyfishing is Spey, is very good.................

can you foward the m

can you foward the manufacturers contact info for rods,reel line

nice tie and a very nice.

[i:624b001679]nice tie and a very nice..sewin![/i:624b001679]

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Wow, that is one col

Wow, that is one colourful fly!!!!

Great tie. I have be

Great tie. I have been using diamond braid for wing cases for quite some time. I also die pearl to colors i need that hareline does not produce. I will give this one a go for sure. Thanks for sharing.

Planettrout,

Planettrout,

Nice selection and nice patterns! Great winter job, filling the boxes before the ice melts.

If you feel like doing an article on these great little nymphs for GFF, feel free contact me on martin@globalflyfisher.com.

Martin

FANTASTIC !
Could y

FANTASTIC !
Could you inform me how get this place ?
Will be necessary hire the specific agency to go to fish there ?

Regards

THAT, is a darn grea

THAT, is a darn great (and funny) video!! Probably the best of the whole lot.

I agree with you Mar

I agree with you Martin. I have a video that I bought earlier in 2010 that I just couldn't finish watching it. It was that irritating! The frenetic music that didn't match the scene, the slow motion, the sppeded up motion, the choppy cinematography, the grainy scenes...it was just a hodge-podge of junk the inhibited the pleasure of the film. The old adage of, "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should do it" applied to that film.

I even wrote the maker of that film to sound off my displeasure. That same maker made a really nice film to! I told them that they should stick to a recipe that works instead of gagging-up their video with junk that detracts from the film.

But alas, I guess that's what a lot of folks want....so they give it to them.

I think a lot of these new generation outdoor cinematographers are trying to copy/mimic Warren Miller films. Lots of luck with that! As good as Miller's films are, I can't watch more than one at a time. They to wear on ones sensory overload.

Kelly Galloup has re

Kelly Galloup has revised a form of fishing that works on big fish some of my biggest fish where caught with streamers, love his simplictic approach to fishing/tying, @Jan I don't like weighting my flies unless the water is super high instead prefer using a sink tip or ful sinking line with a loop knot for better action.