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You are a remarkable

You are a remarkable artist!

Got my copy today

Hi Martin
Just got my copy today. Beautiful flies...great book. I am a fly pattern book junkie, and this is up there with my favourites. For the record I have been fishing the Polar Magnus the last couple of years here in New England in the local ponds after ice out. Crappies, perch, bluegill, and pickerel love it as much as your sea trout!
Best regards,
Robb

Unfortunately Randal

Unfortunately Randall Kaufmann is not the originator of this fly. It was first tied by a tier named Jim Slattery, who now lives in W. Yellowstone, Montana. It was loosely fashioned after the famous Sofa Pillow.

Ridicilus prices not normal

ridicilus prices not normal enymore i wander hou the economic in icland is.
you can just about to pay 25.00 euro and fish in danmark in skjern a a river full with salmon
and esay to get a licencs
so i am sorry icland but im not going ,to pay 500.00 euro a day

Theoretically

Daniel,

Theoretically the fish could go for the "body" or the "tail" of the fly and miss the hook, but flatwings and US saltwater flies built on the same principle - short hook, long body - have worked well for ages and actually work well for seatrout too. This fly still has to lay down a serious track record before I stick my neck out 100% for it, but I'm pretty sure that it will do fine. My biggest issue is actually that the tail/body has a tendency to wrap around the hook if you don't cast it gently. I troll it most of the time from my pontoon boat, so casting isn't the big problem.

Martin

Several combinations

I have been using several combinations as well and they all work very well for me in the right combinations of time water color and temperature. So all of your variations work as well under the right condiltions.

Nice and easy to tie

Nice and easy to tie! Going to make a couple of these today. Just curious if one hook alone is enough seeing as the fly is rather long. Won't that mean that there's a risk that the fish go for the body and completely miss the hook?

Comment to #90 - Spring Breeze

Nice colors on that one. Still following along every day.

Mark

Comment to #90 - Spring Breeze

Awesome!

Monte ties some really amazing streamers and speys, and classics and ....

Comment to #90 - Spring Breeze

Gorgeous!

What a brilliant article!

Martin

What a brilliant article!

Definetely not to technical and tons of usefull info.

best Heiko

Comment to Hook Reference

Still no address!

Comment to Hook Reference

Hey Bob

Your email address is bouncing for me. Her is my address

Darren MacEachern
32 Southwell Avenue
Whitby, ON
L1P 1N4

What a great looking

What a great looking scud. Can I get the Chewee Skin material at you store?

Very Nice, I will tr

Very Nice, I will try some of these patterns on the Triniti River in Quebec this summer for Sea Run Brookies. Very Nice tying job on all.

Comment to Hook Reference

Pacres:
In a past life I had a small fly shop. One year I went to the dealer show in Denver and bought a box of 1000 (silent auction) Mustad Carrie Stevens size 2 10xl long hooks. I don't know the model number. I'd send you a couple if I had your address.
Bob Olszewski (bolszewski@millitech.com)

Comment to Hook Reference

Sounds cool Bob, I'll shoot you an email.

Comment to Darren MacEachern

darren...there is no bio about Dan Despres in the current fly article of the greyhound.

i feel funny by myself!

Comment to Darren MacEachern

Thanks Ted.

Those Walleye look great,

Those Walleye look great, what a lovely fish.
Congrats on a good early spring fish, it is early autumn down here and things are starting to slow down.
All the best.
Mike

This is my ambition

This is my ambition for a beautiful sea trout

Bruno,

Thanks! We

Bruno,

Thanks! We'll try to keep it that way in the future too.

Martin

I've been using this

I've been using this site for many years. In my opinion GFF is the best site for fly fishers in www :)

Comment to Steve Labrecque

Great job,Beautiful