no financial interest here, just something i've come to love:
Clear Cure Goo: http://clearcuregoo.com/
it comes in several formulas -- i've tried them all and found them to be useful for different things. a little pricey to get into (i think the kit is around $US 40), but he ships pretty fast and so far i'm very happy with the results. this stuff really is quite fun, and no waiting around to dry either.
again, no financial interest, just something i've found that i love.
is there a book that i can find these patterns in or other web sites that i can find them in
I've been through loads of wading jackets to. Including the Simms Guide jacket. All are poorly designed for those who fish saltwater. However the one I've been using for the last 5 years is the Patagonia Deep Wading jacket. 2 deep chest pockets with velcro and thats it! The zip salted up so I had it replaced with a large plastic YKK zip used for tents. This was done by a local seamtress for £20. It's perfect now - no rusting and minimalist design. Why can't Simms, Patagonia and the rest use these zips in the first place?
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Playin' around with high/low ties then welding in the mylar gill plates, 3D eyez, and peacock herl... weshallsee!?
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A DarkOpsDualTubePhly...
I've blended some long black hackles with Midnight "Devil 'n Blend" then finished the body with segments of splayed buck tail to enhance the wide-body profile...
The 3D eyez were spot welded in place over the lower "junction tube" along with 3 wide black hackles, buck tail chin, and peacock herl to finish the profile...
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terriffic fish , they can be spooky devils at times ,, as hard to convince as rain bows on may flys,,, great photo,,, what fly?
David,
Excellent tip! I was looking at supplies for the dental clinics, which use the same technology for fillings and tooth repairs. But they were nowhere near being cheap! On the opposite. Not surprising when you consider the demands on health care materials.
The nail business is a lot less demanding!
Martin
Having liked the look that Tuffleye gives to flies, I set about trying to find a cheaper product that gave me the same effect, as being unemployed for the first time in my life I couldn't warrant the outlay for the more well known products. I stumbled upon the UV Gel used in the nail art industry. I bought the UV light, the base coat and top finish coat for a fraction of what you would pay for Tuffleye etc. It gives just as good a finish and cures in seconds.
Cheers Dave
Bernd,
Thanks for your kind words about GFF! We're glad you like the page.
I tend to agree with you on fly fishing competitions. Competing is far from my attitude towards fishing, and I never really understood people who want to compete rather than fish. Like yourself I fish to be out there and enjoy nature and good company.
But of course others can do as they please: compete, do distance casting or whatever.
Martin
Hello dear GFF Team,
in my opinion, your side is one of the best flyfishing sides on the www and definitly my personal favorit. I am a fly only man for more then 30 years, teaching flyfishing and flytying, writing articles for magazines and doing a lot of guiding. But the video from the "french flyfishing championship" has absolutly nothing to do with serious flyfishing. It degenerates our passion to ping-pong playing with live animals. Competition fishing -no matter if it is coarsefishing or flyfishing- means a less of respect to the fish. I wonder why especially flyfishermen do this; in my opinion flyfishing means an intensive feeling of nature, beeing a part of it combined with maximum fairness and respect to the creature itself. Competition flyfishing is in my opinion light years away from serious flyfishing. I think it would be better for the fish and for the standing of our passion, when these competition "flyfishers" would do only casting. They can earn their trophys much better this way.... This is only my personal opinion, but I hope, that this kind of sport has no real future or any space.
Everybody thight lines!
Duh Uh! If Rain X is not for use on plastic then why does it come in a plastic Bottle and how can a Plastic Zip Lock bag survive the storing of Rain X Wipes???
"All is as it should be in the Universe"
Hi Glenn I use tube flies sometimes but honestly I think that a good streamer is a better fly most times. The tube flies just do not have that enticing movement that a Rabbit or even a hair wing fly has. The tubes of course sink much faster so if you need to get down then they are hard to beat.
All the best.
Mike.
Randy,
Actually, I have yet to trash one of these flies because fish have shredded it. I have a few marred ones, but none that were completely trashed. And I have caught pike on it!
On the other hand, I have had a few of the very simple flash type flies (Valeur Pike Streamers and Tinsel Flies), which were literally flowing away in pieces after one pike.
So I don't think the rule is a simple natural materials versus synthetics.
Martin
Nice looking fly but will probably last through about 3 fish. Synthetic materials will allow many more fish per fly. I have tied several patterns using synthetic body fur heads and angel hair tails that have landed more than 30 fish and are still usable.
Eino,
No, we don't make anything - apart from these web pages.
Eumer doesn't make a "normal jaw" vise as far as I know - only a tube vise.
And no, I haven't heard of the Finnish pp-vise, and I can't find anything about it on the web either.
Martin
I have used several reel seats made by Bob and they are beautiful. I purchased them from Goldenwitch a few years ago and all my buyers love them.
do you make a normal jaw vise. have you heard of pp-vise made in finland.
I'm glad to see there were some fish taken! By the looks of the second grouping of pictures, there was plenty of resting going on!
This is a nice picture. I wish I knew if that feather was on the water or on a mirror. Kind of hard to tell, but's still a great picture.
I have several old (antique) bamboo rods that I have found at yard sales. Two of the rods that I am interested in restoring are heavy rods one is in the 10 foot range and the other is in the 8 foot range. The others are fly rods, they seem to be in pretty good shape still in the original wood box. Any information that you could supply would be most helpful.
This fly made my fishing trip! Tied a Tan-coloured fluff with STF and a dubbed butt of black hair (to imitate shrimp's eyes/head) and the fish loved it. I like the stf-dubbing's shimmering effect in the water. Thanks for the pattern.
I agree that the article is well written and informative.
However I am disapointed that there is only positive feedback. Letôs give the flyfishing philosophy some consideration. How about the old adage that "fly fishing is not (only) about catching fish". There is more to it. The method has nothing to do with flyfishing. To quote Howell Raines from his famous book "Flyfishing through the Midlifee crisis", fishing e.g a gold beaded nymph with a strike indicator with a flyrod has nothing to do with flyfishing. Flyfishing is not defined by the fact that you use a flyrod.
It is too bad that there are flyfishing "contests" that lead to excesses of this kind.
I know my comments will not draw sympathy here. I hope that at least a small minority of true flyfishermen will start thinking.
Very nice. Thanks for writing about your trip. Looks like you had some good times. Fish on my friends.
I think your fly tying is absolutely outstanding and extra comments would be uncalled for
Hi Eelke. I'm sure, you can buy STF, when you come to Denmark - or in a Danish webshop, that can send the material to you in the Netherlands. The best Fluff is made of a blend of colors tan, gray olive, light olive and a little olive + a little flash (green/gold). You can mail me for further information. Per
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