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Andrew, in addition

Andrew, in addition to Martin's response, I would also like to add a comment on why it's better to leave the feathers on the skin. Often in tying a fly, you are required to use a left feather and a right feather for tying wings. It is almost impossible to do that with all the feathers detached from the skin and stored in a bag. It would drive a tier insane and take up so much time trying to match them correctly. When I first started tying flies, I did what most tiers do, I bought feathers from a supplier that were randomly thrown into a bag. Not knowing what I know now, I thought that was okay. Then I started to build winged flies and quickly realized how much time I was wasting just trying to match feathers. That's why when you buy capes they are still on the skin. I look at it this way, time and quality are relative. If you tie your own flies, you do it because you get pleasure from building your own flies to use instead of going to the store and buy what they have to offer. If you put the time in, it will be worth it. Thank you for reading my article.

Andrew,

Yes you c

Andrew,

Yes you can, but the feathers are much easier to handle when they are on the skin. If you only need specific feathers - flank, CDC or wing feathers, you can pluck what you need and they will often be fine enough to be used as is. But a whole skin hold so many useful feathers, which can be nice to have.

Personally I find it worth the work to have the feathers "well organized" on the skin rather than stuffed into a bag.

Martin

Martin

Can you just pluck t

Can you just pluck the feathers from the skin, and wash the feathers?

This is hilarious...

This is hilarious...

Great article on pre

Great article on preserving. Looking forward to your next article.

Thanks Martin!

Thanks Martin!

perskis,

perskis,

perskis,

I managed to get your pictures to show. It seems that they had some kind of color management in them, and by opening them in Photoshop and stripping that off and saving them again I got them to behave.

Refresh the page, and you should see the flies. very nice flies as I said already!

Martin

Rick-I was fishing i

Rick-I was fishing in Pagosa Springs Colorado last summer using the hopper copper dropper. My guide tied the hopper directly to the leader and then the copper to 4X tippet and the dropper to 5X tippet. I hope I have that correct, the larger tippet first. I see the diagram above has this presentation with the flies on droppers off the leader. I am wondering if you might know he did that. How did he tie the fly and tippet to the next tippet and fly. Hope this makes sense.

Richard,

This was

Richard,

This was shot in Denmark, on the west coast of the island Sjaelland.

Martin

First, let me say ho

First, let me say how much I appreciate the excellent quality of your videos. You have provided a clear, concise, extremely informative compendium that has been my main resource for technical improvements in my tying. I've seen that, on some patterns, you will use thread to build up the body or provide coloration whereas I will typically use floss on the same pattern. Do you notice any difference in action or durability comparing floss and thread? Again, thanks so much Mr. Misiura. You are a real master and those us who strive to become one appreciate you sharing your skills and expertise with us.

Best,

Matt Glascock

perskis,

perskis,

I have no idea what happened to your pictures! They look nice enough when you click on them... strange!

Very nice flies by the way. Thanks for posting them.

Martin

Very nice photo. T

Very nice photo. The color is very clear and sharp.

This fly would fish

This fly would fish well in streams and lakes. Bass and Pike would take it.

Nice tube fly.

Nice tube fly.

Beautiful sunset! Wh

Beautiful sunset! Where was it taken?

Interesting choice o

Interesting choice of colors.

Comment to Gary Fraser Streamer Collection 2014

Great looking group of streamer patterns Gary...I like the whiteback very much!

Dave

Can you tell me what

Can you tell me what is GO2 150D Veevus thread compare to the 0/0 system? Is it equal to 6/0 , 8/0 etc.?
what is 100D and 30 D equal to the threads like Danville or Uni-thread? With these 3 deniers what type would you use to tye dry flies, nymphs etc.. Thank you.

Pete,

Pete,

Pretty (small) flies...
I'd fish those any day for our local sea runs.
Good job.

Martin

Grant, You can re

Grant,

You can read this article for some information on UV Resins. They basically come with each their type of lamp, but are mostly interchangeable.

Martin

What type of uv ligh

What type of uv light is used on super glue and other types of uv glue. I would use it on the copper John.

Martin has a very go

Martin has a very good point, you wouldn't want to use this setup for fishing dry flies on a calm day. A couple of things that I do to help turn over the SH is, first I will leave a couple meter of amnesia lay in the water, before I start putting the rest in my stripping basket, this adds resistance at the end of the cast, or hold the line and just slow it down, or my favorite is to strip out just enough running line so that the SH shoots to the end, with a small `clunk´, love the feel of it.

One of the problems I had at the beginning was that the cast would run out of momentum, and just sort of fall at the end of the cast, so I played around with it a while, before I found what works for me.

Comment to PJ Whiteback Smelt by Gary Fraser

Thanks for the unreal bump on my pattern. you tie a mean mean fly my friend