Archive | January, 2010

Video: Fly Fishing in Slovenia

January 18, 2010 1 Comment

Here is a nice little video that, if you are anything like me, will make you wonder why you have yet to go fly fishing in Slovenia! This water is gin clear, and the fish seem to be readily receptive to a well fished fly. What more could you ask for? In any case, if [...] Read more
Category: Fly Fishing Video, On Location, Slovenia
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Fly-Tying Equipment: The Vice

January 14, 2010 1 Comment

The vice is the most obvious and probably the most important piece of fly-tying equipment. Without a vice to hold your hook steady, you simply wouldn’t be able to tie your fly at all. Most fly-tyers will recommend that you purchase the “most expensive” or “best vice you can afford” and this is in many [...] Read more
Category: Fly-Tying Equipment
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Fly-Tying Tutorial: Tying the Buzzer Lesson

January 14, 2010 0 Comments

This is a great little lesson for the total novice fly-tyer as Buzzers make a great start due to the lack of complexity in many designs: most successful buzzer patterns owe much to the sparseness of their design, making them great little confidence builders! A ‘buzzer’ is the pupal stage of aquatic insects – most [...] Read more
Category: Buzzers, Fly-Tying, Fly-Tying Lessons & Tutorials
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Fly-Tying Tutorial Video: Using the Whip Finisher

January 14, 2010 0 Comments

This is a little tutorial video that novice fly-tyers might find useful – particularly if you got a box of fly-tying wquipment and can’t work out how some of the bits and pieces work! This is the “Whip Finisher” and the video below shows you pretty much how it is used to finish off flies [...] Read more
Category: Fly-Tying, Fly-Tying Lessons & Tutorials, Lessons & Tutorials
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Fly-Tying: The Adams Irresistable with Davie McPhail

January 13, 2010 0 Comments

This is the first, I hope, of many videos we will feature from Davie McPhail: this Scotsman produces really excellent fly-tying videos on YouTube and we are going to be featuring many of them over the coming weeks and months as we look to replenish our stocks of flies before March. In this video, Davie [...] Read more
Category: Dry Flies, Fly Fishing Video, Fly-Tying, Lessons & Tutorials
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Video: Fly Fishing with the Mouse in New Zealand

January 13, 2010 0 Comments

This fly fishing video (below) won awards for its design and production. While it is rather flashily put together, you can’t argue with the fish in this video – it makes me itch to get to New Zealand and start fishing. There is a section mid-way through which shows the contents of a monster trouts [...] Read more
Category: Fly Fishing Video, New Zealand, On Location
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Books: The Fly Tying Bible, by Peter Gathercole

January 13, 2010 0 Comments

The Fly-Tying Bible by Peter Gathercole carries a weighty title, but does it live up to it? Robin Scott finds out. I wish I had first picked up this book when I was around 12 or 13, around about the time I was given my first “starter kit” of vice, bobbin and bits of hackle [...] Read more
Category: Fly Fishing Books, Fly-Tying
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Thoughts in the Fishing Library

January 13, 2010 0 Comments

A Fishing Library is something that every fly fisherman should have! At this time of year, in particular, we find ourselves spending more time thinking about fishing than we do actually fishing. This includes reading up on fishing, which is a hobby that never seems to grow old. My fishing library is not as grand [...] Read more
Category: Fly Fishing Books, General Fly fishing Chat
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