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Just feed back

Just feed back to the website author: am complete wet behind the ears novice. I've spent hours looking at websites of fly rigs. Not a single one has ever shown a picture or diagram or photo of a tippet and leader joined together. To the novice it looks like they're the same thing. On reading above article it's written they are not but still no picture or photo or diagram of finished section. Please please please show pictures as knots, after all, are to be looked at and to read about knots and rigs does not help the newcomer, it makes us want to give up. Thankyou in advance for reading this. P.S. couldn't find your email address to send this to you as per one of your recommendations, it's 'not in the contact us' section.

@ Martin

Good morning Martin,
I have a follow up question on this thread.
I have been on Als over the weekend (not doing particullary well, 2 small trouts and a small cod). I have rediscovered how much I like saltwater flyfishing in the Baltic.
I used a 5 weight Z-Axis for the first time in the salt which was fine casting size 8 and 10 shrimp flies.
I also own a five river FTX 7 weight, which is also fine but probably a little overgunned.
I am looking into closing the gap in between. A dealer close by has offered a Loomis GL3 at a reasonable (not yet negotiated) price. I am goingb to cast it on Friday. What's your view on that rod?
TL and thx in advance
Florian

Fantastic article

Fantastic article again Martin. I've been having same type of experiences that you about rod lenghts and weights.
Here in Finnish coast most used fishing gear is still 8-weight 9 feet extremely stiff rod. I just can't imagine any condition of weather that I would need more than maximum 7-weight medium-fast rod.
Nowadays I'm using mostly Guideline's 5-weight LpXe Rs rod ( older, 3-piece ) and I've seen the difference with lighter gear.
Most of my fish are goming to the shore much more easily than with a stiff heavier rod. And earlier when I used 8-weights most of the fish escaped maybe because of that stiffness.

About those lines.
I've been using earlier mostly shooting heads and floting runningline ( no monofilaments for me ) , but when I first had Guidelines coastal line in my hands there's been no returning to those shooting heads again.
I just hated that loop to loop connection when it did get true my rods guides. It just wasn't suitable for me.
I've been using that same flyline for 3 years now and still no crackings anywhere. Maybe you guys are too ruff for your lines.

bookmarked, gonna tr

bookmarked, gonna try this out tommorow after i get some good deer hair! been trying a muddler for so long with crappy deer hair so ima get some good stuff, and the pictures help a bunch! ive always let my deer hair spin around the hook and it never looked good at all

Mr. Joergensen,

Mr. Joergensen,
Your photos are exceptional, I never new our equipment could be so beautiful. I have also viewed your still water photos.. My question is to you how can I purchase some photos for my office???? Kirk

A great article

A great article Hans, this is probably the best info on CDC to date. I really enjoyed the article and the pictures
are excellent. Keep up the good work.

Comment to About Streamers 365

Hey Gary,

Thanks for dropping by. I've been collecting streamers from a number of tyers from around the globe and on Jan 1, I'll start displaying all the flies one per day. I'll be selling, auctioning, etc the streamers over the year to raise some money for the 6 organizations listed on the about page. Check your inbox. :)

soonerorlater...

Martin...
Thanks' for the headz-up info...
I hope to get "over there" before I'm completely toothless and useless...
weshallsee!
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Here is a photo of some of the flys

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Doug,

Thanks for

Doug,

Thanks for your comment, and I sure hope you none-fishing friends enjoy the site as much as you seem to! I'm glad you like the site and find it useful.

Martin

Great video! Why the

Great video! Why the gloves and why is the guy "kissing" his reel??

Mr. Jorgenson, this

Mr. Jorgenson, this is one fantastic site. I have taken up pike fishing, and the info you provide is outstanding. Also,your gearing up for "looks"is funny as can be. Your fly tying info is great as well. I tell everyone to go here; even people who don't fish! I live in western N.Y. State, USA, and we have plenty roughfish here. Flyfishing for pike is mostly overlooked. THANKS very much.

Amazing, it must be

Amazing, it must be in Bosnia, congratulation.

Winning combination

a fly, bubble and spinning rod is a winning combination that can catch a lot of fish!

its just another way of fishing

Comment to About Streamers 365

Darren, just wondering how you will use the streamers to raise funds. I would be pleased to help, but would like to know how it will work.
Thanks,
Gary

Comment to Hook Reference

Exceptionally nicely done, Darren!

Nice article Martin.

Nice article Martin. I actually bought a couple of Bombardas recently; for the kids to be able to use flies, next time I take them out fishing, but as I have never tried this type of rig myself the into was very welcome.
Cheers,
/atli

hello bob,
can you

hello bob,
can you please send a photo of the trout rock to me?

Very good step by st

Very good step by step

what determines your

what determines your length of leader

There is no drawback

Svoban,

There is no drawback in my article, its simply about the introduction of salmonides !
Unfortunately no baseline study about original species was done before the introduction. Therefore to valuate the current number of remaining or even STEADY indigenous population is vague. We know for sure there is one endangered species. But you are certainly right, the ecological impact was and probably still is an ecological disaster. But since I am not a fulltime scientist, I rather decided to give no room for any assumption about present state of indigenous fish but facts about the introduction.

Heiko

Just got back from a

Just got back from an Atlantic Salmon fishing trip and the guide said he has used Armour all for years and swears by it. I was a bit skeptical as I have heard that it has had adverse effects on car dash boards. seems it works for some though.

There is a drawback

There is a drawback of in this article. You did not mention what happen to the original fish species of Southern America after the introduction of salmonids. Flyfishermen are happy, but the impact to original ecosystem was catastrophic.

Joakim,

That's a

Joakim,

That's a Pfleuger if I'm not mistaking. Mentioned in my article about the LAW reel.

Martin