Recent comments

Rigging

This may be a dumb question but how do you rig the dual tube? You'd have to run the line through the lower tube to take advantage of the more forward hook so I'm guessing that's how you do it. I'm also guessing the wing causes it to swim right-side up. Let me know if my assumptions are correct if you don't mind. I love the idea. The more forward hook placement would really increase hook-ups.

i ll miss кольский :)

Winter fishing

Great video and even greater stream. Nothing beets winter fishing. Enjoyed it.

Sunray Shadow

@Jernau,

A classic Sunray Shadow has an even longer wing and a hook placed in the absolute front. Some Sunrays are 20-25 centimeters or 4-5 inches long! Still the "short hook, long wing" flies have worked well for ages, and personally I think the fear of "tail nibbling" is vastly exaggerated. Most fish seem to attack with vigor, swallow most of almost any fly and even go for the front of the fly as they charge.

The Sunray Shadow can be seen here: http://globalflyfisher.com/patterns/sunray-shadow
And here's a whole article about short hooks and long wings: http://globalflyfisher.com/tie-better/short-hook-long-wing

The fly in the video barely qualifies as a long winged fly in my eyes, but is very much along the lines and proportions of most of the hair winged salmon flies fished here in Scandinavia.

Martin

Hook position

The problem with this design is that the hook won’t extentend far enough. It s very likely the fish will attack from the rear and won’t get hooked. Why not just tie a weighted Sunray Shadow using the same material and colors?

After dinner mint fly

Nice fly. How does it fish?

This tube fly is great. I'm

This tube fly is great. I'm going to tye tube flies.....

Comment to #213 - Jock Scott Streamer

That´s a beauty Davie! Extremely well tied and dressed. I really admire your style of tying streamers. Petr from Czech.

Comment to Hook Reference

Hello everyone. I love Mustad L87-3665A hooks. I love to tie streamers on them, but I can´t find them in any of Czech fly shops. They just don ´t offer them, the only usable streamer hooks that I can buy are TMC 300 but I don´t like them much because of soft and flexible twire. Only some Mustad carp hooks available...:-) Can anyone help me with getting one package of L-87 3665A size 8 hooks? I can offer some beautiful Whiting pack hackles or feather samples and some samples of fluo cerise marabou for that for a change.
Thanks everyone for the help, Petr

My sister shrimp

Awesome looking pattern. I can't wait to try it. How do you fish it in stillwater?

Fly fishing

I knew that my former colleque from Fokker at Ypenburg, was able to make beautiful things with his machines, but this I have never seen. My very big compliments. And it is worth te price he can get for it. There is no alternative.

Comment on new method of presenting flys

This way of presenting flys with a spinning rod by dragging them using a float is certainly nothing new. It has been used in Newfoundland Canada for at least 50 years if not longer and is still being used to catch trout!

why.

This river can not be lost to greed and ignorance.

Red, White, & Blue

Hey Shawn,
Nice setup you have there. I noticed the red, white, and blue fish hanging on your wall and didn't know if that just shows your patriotism, of if you are in Texas, or both?
Also, what is your favorite vise and bobbin?

Thanks for sharing, Dave

Cabinet

Hi Samuel,

Looks like you have a great setup for fly tying. What is the cabinet/booth that you have set up behind your tying station? It looks like it might be used for spray painting? Also, what is your favorite vise and bobbin which you use?

Thanks for sharing, Dave

Incredible setup

Hi Jayson,
That's quite a setup you have there. I have a few questions for you, first, if you have ever been married, are you still married? Not many women would be so gracious to grant her husband the space, let alone the resources to invest so much into their sport/hobby. Also, I'm assuming this is primarily your tying space and not a museum? That is quite a collection of fly tying tools, materials, and fishing equipment that you have. I would pay money just to see it in person. And my final question is what is your favorite vise, bobbin, whip finishing tool, etc?
Thanks for sharing, Dave

Great film

What a wonderful film about steelhead! Full of love for the nature and wild steelhead! Really great people! I wish, I would meet more people like them at the water.... A fantastic film, a must to see! Thank's a lot!

Great looking fly. I'm going

Great looking fly. I'm going to use it for Bull Trout, Pike and Walleye

synthetics and baitfish flies

To avoid roll over of synthetics, I tie in a few long strands of deer tail hair at the end of the shank.

Discussion "what is not fly

Discussion "what is not fly fishing" is as old as fly fishing itself :-). I live in Poland now, where this method very popular, but called "Polish nymphing", which is the same in my opinion. Also it's popular in Slovakia where I'm fishing quite often, maybe they call it "Slovak nymphing"? :-) I learned interesting technique from Slovak guide on river Vah, which is combination of Czech/Polish nymphing and wet fly swing. In this method 3 flies are used. Anchor fly is heavier nymph, used for weight, middle fly is very light nymph, and top fly is a wet fly, usually spider pattern. Cast flies slightly upstream, follow it with the rod tip, then in the middle of the run rod is gradually lowered. When the rig is on 45 degrees downstream from the angler, fly line and rod almost dropped to the water. So it ends up like classic downstream swing. I tried that in the riffle full of graylings and trout, and half of fish takes were on wet fly, when rig was 45 degree downstream or in the lower part of the drift.

measurements

Wow, amazing work!

Would it be possible to have the measurements of such a wonderful vise? I'd like to have students build one.

Thanks a lot.