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There is no way you can tie and carry all the flies you need. Its just not possible to predict it all with any certainty. What you need to do is take a fly tier along on the trip.


I expect my...

There really isn't one! The longest I've seen in commercially available dubbing is in packs of Fly Rite which can be a couple of inches long. The shortest staple dubbing I've ever seen used is the...

As you wind stroke the fibres back with the index finger and thumb of your non tying hand. Its a technique from tying salmon flies called doubling. With game bird hackles it takes a deft touch to...

Wow that was fast Hans, You are on the ball this morning.
A.

Do I detect that Sir Francis has an Irish accent?
On close inspection it looks to me like you have wound the Mallard Drake feather. At first I thought you had applies it by rolling a section around...

Failed / Emerging Midge (Chronomid).
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This isn?t a pattern of my own invention. Many years ago Alan Roe arrived home...

If you don't have a coffee grinder, or fear the material melting in one. Get hold of a small tin with a good lid, and a nut (the sort an engineer would use not a cashew). Put the dubbing and the nut...

Those bring a whole new meaning to "bottom bouncing". ;)
Cheers,
A.

You are right Hans, it does. Hadn't seen that pattern before. It goes to show "Fools seldom differ".
Thanks Byron.
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A.

The other day I wanted a slim but more buoyant dry caddis pattern than I had available in my box, so sat at the vice and concocted this....

Being familiar with the Comet tube fly for Atlantic Salmon that wasn't at all what I expected from the title.

Thinking of that Hans, do you ever tie tubes?

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A.

There is at least one SbS for a fly tied on one of these hooks. I know there is, I did one as a FOTW some time back! Though I agree they are a bit of an oddity.
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A.

To me it is down to confidence. Trout can be caught on flies both with and without wings. If putting wings on a fly gives you more confidence then do it! You'll fish better with it.
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C.

Very nice Byron, Egg sacks can be a huge trigger to fish.

Some caddis flies lay on the surface by dipping their abdomen into the surface. If you tied this on a curved shank hook it would be an...

Something that might help with burning wings (I should have mentioned before). When burning two feathers together make a paper, feather, paper, father. paper sandwich. It will make the feathers...

Two popsickle sticks some tape and some sandpaper will make you a wing burner of any shape in minutes.
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A.

Those are amazing Hans, thank you. Looking at them I am not surprised, they show the same skill and thought that went into his tools. My Frank Matarelli bobbin holder is the only non ceramic one I...

mickalo,

I don't make dubbing brushes as such but I do use deer hair in dubbing loops and split thread. The secret is to incorporate some dubbing with it. Usually I use a fine synthetic. Prepare...

I would think you would use similar tackle as you would for fishing a mouse or lemming pattern.
Cheers,
C.

Here that would be known as a "Ducks Dun". More a kind of pattern than a specific patten.
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A.

Those are serious looking bugs, hope you go out well armed, and armoured, when they are about! We don't get anything like that here. Saw some amazing bugs in my time in Saudi. That's one I've never...

When I first came across beaver dubbing it wasn't available here, haven't looked recently, a friend brought me back a similar box to yours. It is very nice for MY small dries and nymphs. I don't use...

That's a top dropper fly for the lochs here, in the summer (if we get one), if ever I've seen one. Now you have given me a problem. The search for a supply of dyed snowshoe is on again. Found a few...

Hans I never had you down for a biker. Mind you I've had my share of them. I was thinking of the other A10 Which is just too slow to do what it does. At least it looks that way.
(I've found my...

I take it from the name you fish it very slowly!
Cheers,
A.