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Submitted by Steve and Caro… on

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We received one of Matt's pictures as a gift and enjoy it so much. He is a very talented artist and makes each piece of art so detailed that is seems to come alive. His workmanship is excellent and you can see his love for fishing in his designs.

Submitted by Diane Hendriksen on

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I have some of Matt's work in my home and my husbands office. The quality of work is above anything I have ever seen. I have had so many compliments on his work. I would recommend his work to anyone. I have even given some of his work to friends for gifts.

Submitted by Dave Botelho on

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Triple A....Awesome article, Awesome Flies, Awesome Photography.

[quote:ba4eb3a34a="taff"]I had to check the calander to make sure it was'nt the 1st April. Hmnnnnn?[/quote:ba4eb3a34a]

Paul,

Heh! Fly rods from carrots, huh? Sounds like a pretty good deal now that the French are craving all the carbon fibres for their huge airplanes.

Martin

Submitted by Arjun Kumar Nath on

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I wanted to get some close photographs of jumping fish. I want to see the water movement and the reflection after jumping a fish.

Submitted by Ole J. Lund on

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Super DIY-information.
I've just started to make my first Epoxy-flies, and this "contraption" i just what you need
if you dont want to spend hours turning one fly at the time in your vice.
I've made the following minor changes to your "patent".

1. Mount it on a broader base. It'll make it much more stable
2. Install a switch for the motor - it makes at lot easier to turn the motor off/on when mounting "wet" flies.

If you're looke for places to buy the motor - try karaoke-equipment shops on the net.
The top from a CD-box is at super idea. It's perfect in size and weight.
The foam for mounting the flies was at problem to me, untill I saw a "knee-pad" for
gardening at the local buildingmarket. It's slightly thicker than what's shown, but it'll
easyly hold big flies.

Super info and idea!!

Jack,

What do you mean "too many sites are non-exsitent"?

Links to other sites from this page? Not so! I just checked the links, and they seem to work. What other people do with their sites is out of our hands, but we try to preserve every page intact eternally... almost.

Martin

Submitted by jack Neely on

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too many sites non esistant, clean up old sites

Hiya all, I am back in Vancouver once again, sorry to those who I haven't been staying in touch with email. Vanuz and I were able to get together just after Christmas for a day of fishing, we managed to find some perch. My last catch of the day turned out to be the [url=http://www.fishingwithrod.com/member/gallery/0607denmark/061227_01]larg… perch I've encountered so far[/url]. I cheated a bit though, with a spinner. :lol: Vanuz was able to get a few on the fly, but they were a bit smaller than that.

Anyways, January fishing in Denmark was a bust, as record rainfall kept us inside the apartment most of the time. We managed to do something fish related in the end, we visited Øresund Aquarium in Helsingør.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol4m8t9pHUw

Thanks once again for everyone's assistance. :)

Chuck,

I'm sure Hans would never claim to have originated the EHC - and he certainly doesn't do so here. He even mentions Al Troth - the true originator - in the article.

Regarding the CDC "rope" as a body, it might very well be that Marc Petitjean has a similar technique in some of his patterns, but roping a feather can hardly be called an original way of doing things anyway. Claiming to originate that would be like claiming the fame of having invented hackling or dubbing... You may stumble upon the idea without prior knowledge, but many tiers have done that and used the technique before you.

What Hans did - and is the truly originator of - was to combine the two - Al Troth's Elk Hair Caddis and whoever's CDC roping technique - into a very versatile, easily tied and effective fly.

Martin

Submitted by Chuck Bushnell on

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I thought Petitjean originated the use of CDC in roping the body for a CDC caddis ;-).... and i don't recall Hans Weilenmann's name in association with the origination of the ElkHair Caddis....i could be mistaken though. So if i were to take a classic Catskill Dry fly like say, The adams and use CDC puffs for wings --- could i then claim to be it's originator?

this picture is amazing! Never seen a pic before that showed so clearly why a fish might bite on a fly - well done, Tomaz.

Submitted by Nick 1737246411 on

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If you know someone who is a surgeon or works in operating rooms....they have lots of cautery tools there. They can only use them once and then they throw them out. Nothing can be better than $free.99

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[quote:94b5f75c8a="Esox"]Ninteen skunked trips in a row? Wow, Martin. What control you have. Or did you?[/quote:94b5f75c8a]

Nah, I was totally devestated! This was in the winter last year, and I just went fishing all too much hoping for some opening. I should know that fishing in January and February on the Danish coast is only for stupid anglers ridden by severe cabin fever.

This year I have been out three times (3!) and have caught one fish and lost one. And we're in mid-February. That's a much better statistic than 19 empty-handed trips in the same period. I caught the first fish of the year on March the 24th last year! Yikes!

[quote:94b5f75c8a="Esox"]By the way, how do you highlight a paragraph that you are responding to in red?[/quote:94b5f75c8a]

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Martin

Submitted by 1737246411 on

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JOHN!!!!!! I was looking for you for couple of years now!!!!!! Did you move because that hurricane? Great to hear from you !!!!!! As you see, YOU helped me catch my first tarpon!
Drop me an email on tomaz.modic@siol.net ok!

And KAsper: thanks it was not difficuult to write either, because so many things happened in such a short time there :)

Tom

Submitted by Wally Lutz 173… on

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Very nice fly but would prefer to see a second source of light used for a back light to help soften the very pronounced shadow.

Hi Martin, do you know any Danish internet shop which is run in English language to? I would like to buy this DVD but I am not able to do it because I do not really speak Danish:-) Thanks

Submitted by John O'Hearn on

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Tomaz,

Great story. It seems that you might have caught the saltwater addiction. I anxiously await part two.

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