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Fly Tying with one hand

Poppy T, I was doing some surfing for hackle guards and discovered a product you need to look at. It is called Evergreen Hand and it is a tool designed to allow one to tie with one hand. I saw a demo of the tool on a Veterans First You tube video but it is something you should take a look at. I don't know how to post a link but you should be able to find it by googling Evergreen hand. Hope this helps and if you have any trouble finding it let me know and I will get my wife to help me with posting a link to the tool.

jakonyx

Thank you Martin. I

Thank you Martin. I really appreciate it.

Rudy,

Look at the

Rudy,

Look at the section I have made specifically for fishing and shopping in the Copenhagen area.

Martin

Hi, names Rudy and I

Hi, names Rudy and I'll be getting into Copenhagen on the 29th of this month and I have a day in Copenhagen and I would love to know a great spot for a sea trout and also a place I can buy a pole and fish tackle :)

I like these streamers. Good

I like these streamers. Good flies. Gets the juices flowing to see good work like this. I fish lots of streamers, including huge long things tied around a snelled hook, up to six seven inches long.

But I fish a lot of very small streamers too. Sometimes I think old fashioned English winged wet flies are really streamers. The original tiers didn't know it. But that's what they were making.

Itty bitty streamers only and inch long don't zero in on big fish only--the monster Roadkill Streamers do. Small streamers catch small fish and big fish. Now I'll have to try making some using your techniques. Incorporating molded plastic eyes is important. Big time.

Admirable

Admirable - your neatly in the making of these flies, something for my inspiring and good example.

Good thread. Good streamers.

Good thread. Good streamers. I didn't read all 5 pages. Did someone mention long streamers with the hook up front might result in too many short strikes? At least in the smaller fish, fresh water context?

Perhaps that's how the good tube fly photos showed up.

I have another take. I make a lot of fresh water streamers much like the originals in this thread, tied on a snelled hook. I use a barrel swivel up front connected to a trailing stinger made with a sharp scud hook. Knot mono to the swivel. Flatten the rear wire loop of the barrel swivel. Snell on a scud hook. Poke the rear of the swivel onto a horizontal beading needle. Tie a streamer onto the flattened loop and the mono knot. Similar to a tube fly I guess. But I like it better. No photo right now. I'll add one soon. A short shank hook on trailing mono hooks more reliably than a long shanked hook. A lot more reliably. And better than a long streamer with a short hook at the head of the fly.

Comment to Robert (Bob) Frandsen Streamer Collecti

Outstanding set of flies Bob!!!

Comment to Robert (Bob) Frandsen Streamer Collecti

Bellissimas Bob good luck..!

Comment to Maxfields Whitebait Matuka and Conversi

Nice color combos there Bob. Should be a real winner !

szn2,

I read scie

szn2,

I read scientific papers and books too, and sure fish have nerves and feel that the hook stings them - but the term pain is something that we as humans connect with extreme discomfort and even trauma and not least the fact that we know that we are hurting, and there doesn't seem to be much evidence that fish have the same experience from the hooking or handling. Sure they are better off without! Few anglers would doubt that, but it's a calculated risk. If we want to catch the fish, we will bring some discomfort and stress on them.

This study is pretty recent and concludes that fish simply cannot feel conscious pain the way that humans - or even mammals - can. They don't have the physiology and nervous system to do so.

My primary argument regarding the PETA statements had nothing to do with these facts (or opinions), but was a protest against the shrill rhetoric and downright insane allegations from PETA. I'm very open to discussing animal welfare and ethical treatment of animals and fish - those that will end up in my pan and those that I will release - but I will not discuss it with people who obviously live in a different world than mine (and most other people for that matter) and use arguments which are simply wrong and ridiculously exaggerated at the same time.

Martin

I shoot fishing professionally

I shoot fishing professionally as a staff photog for a major fishing media company. My signature shot is jumping fish. I can tell you that the most Important factors in getting a quality fish jump shot are : 1) focus. 2) shutter speed. you can point your camera where the fish is most likely to jump. So you better be shooting 1/1600 or faster. Then you need to nail your focus. 3) have a long enough lens where you do not have to crop too heavily. Shoot on bright days. You will get better pics. Don't rely on luck. Practice focusing on birds. They are easier to shoot than jumping fish, but they will help you hone your shooting skills.

Im sorry to inform y

Im sorry to inform you and your readers that what was on the PETA article is mostly correct. It sounds to me like you are the one quoting misinformation that you just want to hear.
Fish DO actually feel pain, and yes, they often DO get injured when caught and released(I wish it weren't true also but wishing doesn't make it so). I KNOW that this is true because I have read actual scientific studies that were written by scientists who studied fish who were caught and released. I suggest that you and your readers do the same.

You can only give co

You can only give comment when you have fishing with. I am fishing for times with this pattern and in differend waters.
Its a very good fishing pattern!

What a fantastic pattern

What a fantastic pattern.......... beautiful!

Does anyone know how

Does anyone know how to tye upqua's Dave Hochner's "Flats Boss". Thank in advance.

White brolly larva.

White brolly larva.

All the best.
Miro

Thank you Martin. Cheers.

Thank you Martin. Cheers.

g,day,i take you tak

g,day,i take you take comments in Australian,well I used the said fly with good fish taken up to two and half kilo,s in our impoundments,when asked what fly I was using ? I said a welsh fly,the diawl bach,he gave very odd looks,untill I showed the fly,very impressed the way it took fish,also I use the fly the rivers here,up and across with great results.just agood fly.

'decapod crustacean variation...

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Miro,

Miro,

Lots of really nice flies! And different in a good way. Thanks for posting them.

Martin

Hi boys.

Hi boys.
Long Leg Olive Body (LLOB)

Materials:
Hook: #12 May fly
Tread: 14/0 olive or beige
Tail: Goose biots olive (2 pices)
Body: SLF Sinthetic Dubbing (medium olive)
Subwing: Antron Yarn Beige or Cinnamon
Wing: Swiss Straw
Thorax: Polycelon foam olive
Long legs: Peacock (2 pices)
Short legs: Ostrich

All the best.

If Radencich does it

If Radencich does it, you can count on the finest being among the there is.

Some CDC emergers:

Some CDC emergers:

Ultra chenille tail, Black CDC wing - variant 1:

Ultra chenille tail, Black CDC wing - variant 2:

Black loop CDC wing:

Clipped wing technique:

Double goose biots larva:

All the best.
Miro