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Martin...
'Always a pleasure... Thanks for the kind words!
a question...
If I was to attend one [1] Fly Fishing / Tying Show "Over There"... which one would you recommend?!
Regardz
Peeete

Same ol' shirt... Different pantz...
I find the tubular inter-change-ability to be curiously entertaining...
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Submitted by mike on

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Full marks for your efforts to bring quality news, info, and video to the web. I'm hooked!

Mike
Tarpon Springs, FL

Pete,

As always a great fly construction from your hands! And excellent picture to show the method.

The Dual tube system is ingenious, and perfect for really large flies like large saltwater flies or pike flies. I have tied a few myself and been pretty pleased with the result even though none have been nearly as elegant as yours.

Martin

Martin
thank you for your willingness to meet with us. By an epochal event is naming our meeting impossible, but I think that agitation we we will test a few minutes prior to the appointed hour? But we will manage with this agitation and sure we will not be disappointed to her.
Counting out of time began. I look forward to our meeting.
Thank you once again for everything!
With the best wishes from Kaliningrad.
Alexander.

Don,

I'm right handed and use my right hand on the rod and my left hand on the reel. I prefer it this way since I cast with my right hand and don't need to switch in order to reel in line.
Some fly anglers like it the other way round: they cast with the right hand, and switch hands when they hook a fish and fight it with the left hand on the rod and reel line in with the right.

It's a personal choice.

Martin

Alexander,

Well, although the article was not written for you personally, it was certainly written because of your post here, so you can take a bit of the credit!

I would love to meet you if you come here. I have no plans of participating in Seatrout Open 2012, but if you are in the country and we get a chance to meet, I am certainly up for it!

Keep in touch and let me know what your plans are, and we may be able to work something out.

Martin

Martin, to kind night!
By reason that you published I study from the moment of her exit. Thank you! As a veritable egoist I perceived her as an answer for my questions, but it lasted not long because I a man is social and got used to be divided. I realize meaningfulness of this labour thank you.
We with friends gather to arrive in Denmark in spring and to participate in Seatrout Open Spring 2012.
It is the first task second - to meet you.
I do not see reasons that will prevent to carry out these wishes me.
Once again thank you for that work that you execute for All of us.
To meeting.
With the best wishes from Kaliningrad.
With kind regards
Alexander.
P.S. Invitation to Russia always in force. Welcome!

Visitors coming to the Copenhagen area,

Copenhagen is not the easiest place to find good fishing, especially if you don't have a car or can go with someone. There are no guiding services that I know of in the Copenhagen area.
There are options, though, if you want to try to hunt down a coastal sea trout by yourself.

You may want to read the sections on this site about http://globalflyfisher.com/global/denmark/seasons.htm seasons, http://globalflyfisher.com/global/denmark/wind/ wind, http://globalflyfisher.com/global/denmark/species/seatrout.html general advice regarding sea trout fishing and http://globalflyfisher.com/fishbetter/sea-trout-gear/ sea trout gear.

There's a whole bunch of http://globalflyfisher.com/global/denmark/casting.htm pages on Denmark you can read.

Here are some options for pursuing sea trout close to (or even in) the capitol.

- The stretch north of Hellerup Havn (Havn = harhour). Small, sandy but it does hold fish. Best in western and southern winds. Not good in the summer.

- Stretch along Strandvejen north of Copenhagen - especially right outside the statue of Knud Rasmussen (any local will know where that is and you will see it if driving or biking north of Strandvejen). Best in western and southern winds.

- Stretch north and south of Moelleaaen also on Strandvejen, but further north. Notice that there's a protected zone 500 metres (1500') on each side of any stream - of which there are really few in this area. Best in western and southern winds.

- Other parts of the Oeresund coast further north. There are many spots, but some can be difficult to access because of the houses built close to the shoreline. Best in western and southern winds.

- Amager near Kongelunden. The soutwesterhern part of the island. It's easily accessible, but shallow and sandy and a little problmatic in hard wind. Best in eastern and southern wind.

- Amager on the east side where a new beach opened some years ago (Amager Strandpark). It's a bathing, dog walking, kayaking type of area with lots of people, but the water is really nice, and there's a chance of running into fish especially early morning or late evening depending on the season. Best in eastern and southern wind.

- The run between Sjaelland (Copenhagen side) and Amager south of the harbour. The area is called Sydhavnen on the Sjaelland side. There's a bridge and some accessible points plus a sluice by Sjaellandsbroen. I have never caught anything there, but it's known to be good. Not sensitive to wind.

A little farther from he city you can seek out:

- The Isefjord - namely the part north of Munkholmbroen and Bramsnaes/Ejby. A bit further away, but known for its good fishing. Best in eastern and southern winds, but accessible in other cases too.

- If you are in Roskilde, any place in Roskilde Fjord. Some parts are within biking distance from the town, but hard to reach by bus.

- The north coast From Helsingoer to Hornbaek and further on west. This holds a lot a good spots. Best in southern winds.

The closest locations can be reached on a bike, all locations have public transport close by - buses and sometimes trains, but of course having a car is the best.

For looking up all these names on Danish maps and the web, you may need to use the special Danish letters. Replace ae/AE with æ/Æ, oe/OE with ø/Ø and aa/AA with å/Å in the Danish names mentioned above and elsewhere on this site.

Martin

Submitted by Willard Elsasser on

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I will be flying into Copenhagen the first week of September from the USA. I'll have a couple of days to play before I head to a meeting in Sweden. Would it be possible to get some flyfishing time in while I'm there? I arrive the morning of the 4th, Sept.

I really like the article because I like flyfishing tackle :-)
I agree with Martin that "hybrid lines that combine a shooting head like front part with a thin running line" are worn and cracked after one season as my Rio Outbound is the proof. But on the other hand I spend less time on the Baltic coast than Martin so one Martin season is three seasons on the coast for me :-)
I would like to add one quotation from one czech movie: "It depends on each commrade's taste". So Martin is right in his last comment.

Submitted by jay wolak on

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Brings back exciting memories of fresh water streams and learning to tie flies . Picky fish on the beaverkill helped me once moved to Florida... sanibel island area . Applying that I learned how fish key in on certain forage in saltwater as well . I dearly miss hendricksons pool where I caught a 28 in brown on a teeny nymph pattern.

Sarunas,

While I cerrtainly consider your setup a very nice and useful one (and I like the cheap-factor!), it just shows exactly what I try to point out in the article: it's a personal choice.

I would never use a mono shooting line.
And a stripping basket...? Over my dead body! I dislike them and never use them. Many of my fishing friends do, but I personally don't. I have one that I sometimes mount on my pontoon boat to avoid tangles, but for wading: a floating shooting line and no basket for me please.

Martin

Submitted by Sarunas on

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The best set in my opinion is:
Vision Nite Catapult #6-7 9'6
Vision Attack shooting head 7#
and flat mono running line (Varivas or Vision)
Seaguar fluorocarbon tippet and fluorocarbon tapered leader also do its job! It is protected from sand and stones much more than simple monofilament.
Striping basket is a MUST!
That set is really impressive. Casts like hell if you know how to do it!
Also it is cheap. Only one minus is that the rod comes in 3 pieces.

Jan,

I have written extensively about my shooting heads and running lines over the years, and you can check out these articles (which you may already know):

Shooting Heads
Fly Line Blues
Shooting Lines

And of course there's much more filed under the keywords shooting heads and fly lines.

I tend to use home made shooting heads fabricated from cheap mill end lines. They are mostly slow sinking or neutral with a few floaters in there. I have a ton of them. They are cheap to make and easy to exchange, so I tend to have a whole bunch, but I typically fish the same setups for long periods and don't change much while fishing.

My preferred shooting line is still the braided HT-line, which hasn't been made for more than 10 years now, so I'm running on the last reserves here. But they still work better for me than anything else.

Martin

Hi Martin,

thanks for your thoughtful article about gear. I like to read stuff like that from experienced flyfishermen. I would be also interested in the shooting heads and running lines you use with your rods as an very interesting complement.
All the best

Jan

Submitted by Ernesto Guevara on

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The little bit of interesting of this video is spoiled by the music chosen!!! Music is a thing for the "musicians", not for dj's!!!!!

Submitted by Bram Mout on

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I agree Martin, I was present at the presentation of the film(s) during the fly fishing film festival in Rotterdam where Nick told us his stories about making the films. This particular one took 6 weeks. And yes, there were days that there was no fishing possible due to the weather; in August mind you!! I have been in Iceland a couple of time for business (I work for Eimskip, the Iceland Steamship co.) and my experience is that, as well in Spring as in Autumn, you can experience gorgeous days with sunshine, no wind, deep blue skies and reasonable temperatures. If you are lucky to fish on such days, there is hardly anything better. Even if you would not catch anything, the beauty of this country is breathtaking and will make it worthwhile to just be there!

Submitted by Larry Sugimoto on

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I've got alot of Allcock hooks (at least 1000) that were given to me as payment for a debt. I don't tie flies as much as I use to, so am hoping to sell them for collectors out there.

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