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Wow, that is one col

Wow, that is one colourful fly!!!!

Great tie. I have be

Great tie. I have been using diamond braid for wing cases for quite some time. I also die pearl to colors i need that hareline does not produce. I will give this one a go for sure. Thanks for sharing.

Planettrout,

Planettrout,

Nice selection and nice patterns! Great winter job, filling the boxes before the ice melts.

If you feel like doing an article on these great little nymphs for GFF, feel free contact me on martin@globalflyfisher.com.

Martin

FANTASTIC !
Could y

FANTASTIC !
Could you inform me how get this place ?
Will be necessary hire the specific agency to go to fish there ?

Regards

THAT, is a darn grea

THAT, is a darn great (and funny) video!! Probably the best of the whole lot.

I agree with you Mar

I agree with you Martin. I have a video that I bought earlier in 2010 that I just couldn't finish watching it. It was that irritating! The frenetic music that didn't match the scene, the slow motion, the sppeded up motion, the choppy cinematography, the grainy scenes...it was just a hodge-podge of junk the inhibited the pleasure of the film. The old adage of, "Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you should do it" applied to that film.

I even wrote the maker of that film to sound off my displeasure. That same maker made a really nice film to! I told them that they should stick to a recipe that works instead of gagging-up their video with junk that detracts from the film.

But alas, I guess that's what a lot of folks want....so they give it to them.

I think a lot of these new generation outdoor cinematographers are trying to copy/mimic Warren Miller films. Lots of luck with that! As good as Miller's films are, I can't watch more than one at a time. They to wear on ones sensory overload.

Kelly Galloup has re

Kelly Galloup has revised a form of fishing that works on big fish some of my biggest fish where caught with streamers, love his simplictic approach to fishing/tying, @Jan I don't like weighting my flies unless the water is super high instead prefer using a sink tip or ful sinking line with a loop knot for better action.

Steve, every once in

Steve, every once in blue moon someone designs a winner; this is one for the history books and has led me to designing 'profile', flies not too dissimilar to yours and equally successful. Congratulations.

Very beautiful, alth

Very beautiful, although it's interesting how they could change aircraft in flyght!

Pike,

I have orde

Pike,

I have ordered Bug-Bond directly from David Edwards. It's on its way.

Martin

Good article. I woul

Good article. I would like to express my opinion because I am from Czech Republic and currently I live in Ireland so I believe that I know "both sides".
I agree with opinion that Czech Nymphing is not graceful fly fishing. Personally I love dry fly fishing and I am happy I can use dry flies almost whole season in Ireland. During two years I used Czech nymph only several times mainly for perch fishing in high water. (I also improved my casting in this two years more than in ten years of fly fishing in Czech rep)
On the other hand this "technique" was invented in country where fish do not raise so easy as in England, Scotland or Ireland. In Czech Rep. there are lot of trout rivers where fish feed whole year close to bottom and is necessary to get flies deep to catch something.
Czech Nymphing is very effective and could be abused (like almost everything) so I agree with ban of it on some rivers but still from my point of view it is more sport method than worm fishing or dapping the natural mayfly (that is considered as sport method in Ireland).
This technique allows fishing when other ones does not work like high water so it worth to try and learn ( and have several Bobeshs in fly box)
Petru zdar

Martin, have you alr

Martin, have you already tried Sporfish.co.uk? They have BugBond for a reasonable price on stock.

Pete,

Pete,

How could anyone get sick and tired of your nice flies? Please continue! I'm keeping and eye out, and I think we might have another article coming up with variatons over the Welded Phly!

Martin

'some arctic goat to phill in

'some arctic goat to phill in the prophile...
[btw... I'm really pleased with the looks and performance of the DamaSteel jawz!]
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and... by now...
you're probably getting sick and tired of seeing my variations on a theme...
so I'm going to lay low in the tall grass for a while and watch the parade pass by...

John,

Yes, we are

John,

Yes, we are writing on an article about Tuffleye. Hopefully it will be ready within the next month.

Kasper

Happy New Year to yo

Happy New Year to you too, Martin. GFF is really good website and it's always very interesting to read new articles or refresh the old stuff. It would be great to here more podcasts, hope you'll have some energy for it :) Tight lines!

Rasmus,

I was the

Rasmus,

I was the one who did the podcasts, and even though they were a lot of fun to do, it was also a lot of work. I have considered taking it up again once the season starts, but my energy levels aren't quite what they used to be, so no promises...

Martin

John,

I have long

John,

I have long been looking for some of these new resins, but unfortunately they are not easy to come by here in Denmark, and very expensive when you have to order them from abroad. I haven't given up, though, and you can hopefully expect something on Bug Bond, Tuffleeye, Clear Cure Goo and maybe other types of UV hardening resins in the coming months.

Martin

Happy New Year
Will

Happy New Year
Will there be made some new podcasts? The ones already made are very good, but an update would be nice.
:-) Rasmus

Happy New Year Marti

Happy New Year Martin. Have you folks given any thought on doing an article on the new blue light UV resins like Bug Bond or Tuffleye? I know you have some of Davie McPhail's videos posted showing him using it.

On the spot! Go Mart

On the spot! Go Martin!

Fishing for False Al

Fishing for False Albacore with Captian Scott is a complete thrill. This is extreme fly fishing and he has it perfected. We had a great couple of days with him catching all the Albies and Tuna I could handle. I can vouch for his expertise.

i need help....does

i need help....does it matter what kind of backing is ussed?? i have a ross reel fly rise 1 and i was wondering if that backing would work?

Capricious Crustacean 5.0...

More often than knot, after tying I'll continue to ponder the resultz and refine the process...
This is the latest in the "evolution"... Capricious Crustacean 5.0 ?!
anyway...
Basically the same except...
there's some fox fore and aft, smaller nipperz, more pronounced swimmerz, four [4] legz each side, and a more subtle colour applied to the Arabian sand infused Bug-Bond acrylic on the carapace back...
This sort'a pheels a bit like a phinal edition... but I know better...
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you can almost distinguish the dumb bell that encourages proper orientation...
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and beside all that, I'm likin' the centipede legz...