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The Congratulations

The Congratulations, beautiful videos and excellent fishing and fly tying classes of flies

Carlos Villagra R.
Los Angeles - Chile.

'way back in the 1900's...

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Norm and Ruthie [CEO & Chair-person of the Board] on tour...
This photo was taken just before the doors opened at the 2011 Somerset Fly Fishing Show in New Joizey last January...
I first met Norm and Ruthie way back in the late 80's at the Marlboro FF Show in Taxachusetts... the beginning of a genuine friendship...
My vise [at the time] was an HMH which served me very well and is still in my collection of venerable "kinetic sculptures"...
After watching Norm do his thing, I made the investment and I've never had any regrets...
The "Automatic Bobbin" completes the package and is brilliant phrosting on the cake!...
EVERY time I get to watch Norm, I ALWAYS learn a few more amazing tricks...
And I ALWAYS enjoy spending time with quality and innovative tools [Lord knows, I have more than my fair share]...
Nor-Vise... NO regrets!

Pete,

Pete,

Nice fly! As always...

And now you're tying on a Norlander vice.

Like my Dutch friend Hans Weilenmann: a man of many vices!? ;-)

Martin

I love listening to

I love listening to your podcast's, good talks. A glass of wine and sitting at my bench tying up some flies while listening to your adventures is a good time.

A strong back

Martin
There's one other thing to add to the list:
a strong back to carry all these things

I have no idea

Swellcat,

I have no idea what does the trick in furniture polish! The main trick is most likely to make the line water repellent, and for that any greasy or oily substance can be used. I personally prefer the silicone-based products such as Mucelin.

The effect of the furniture polish might also be smoothness and shootability. For that purpose there are line treatments, which improve the slickness of the line. Loon has some, and so do other manufacturers.

But personally I find the running lines smooth enough while floatability is generally lousy, so making sure the line floats is a priority for me. Any water repelling substance can be use for that: Mucelin, silocone for shoes, grease for gaskets and much more. I even know an angler who used hair gel! The gel is water-soluble, so I wouldn't go for that, but anyhow...

Hope this helps.

Martin

Furniture polish

An Australian vendor suggests Dacron (same stuff used for backing) treated with Mr. Sheen (a furniture polish, I gather) as running line. Any guesses as to what components of the polish are helpful and, therefore, what substitutes might be used?

'been a while... 'still alive and kickin...

Bug-Bond, Super Hair, Crystal Flash, 3D Eyez... Bada BING, Bada BOOM...
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'even a blind squirrel finds a nut... 'soonerorlater...
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Katturinn

This fly is very similar to an icelandic streamer known as "the cat" or "katturinn" in icelandic. It is a very popular choice for brown trout, both sea-run and landlocked and is used in a variety of colors.

I received a signed

I received a signed copy of your new book, Fly Fishing for Striped Bass yesterday June 25th, that you gave to my son Chris Aubut, at the Fly Fishing Show in Marlboro MA. I want to thank you and appreciate your kind gesture, it is a beautiful book and will be a great addition to my library in Florida
Thanks Again
Will Aubut

Dear visitor, We

Dear visitor,

We have contacted some of the tyers and video producers and told them that we use their videos, but no - in general we don't have an individual permission.

But all the videos we brig are from services that offer embedding (the thing we do) as a part of their package and actually endorse that other sites use the videos as part of their content. The submitter of the video can usually protect the video from such an embedding in which case we can't use it.

You will find that this is a way of sharing that is used widely on the web, and contrary to images and photos, the whole video community is based on this form af spreading of the videos. If any of the originators asked us to remove their content, we would of course immediately do so.

Martin

do you have the perm

do you have the permission of all the fly tiers, videos you are using?

Hi, Donald

Hi, Donald

Here is the receipe:

http://www.flytyingforum.com/pattern11608.html

Regards

Konstantin Karagyozov

Hi Kody,

Hi Kody,
It is a very good nymph, I am not surprised it is very successfull.
What is the recipe for it?
Your fly tying ability is very good.

Can anybody recommen

Can anybody recommend a good guide who can introduce an experienced fly fisherman ( my husband who has 15 years+ experience from the UK and US) to costal flyfishing in Denmark?
Kind regards,
C

Maybe I am doing something wrong

Hi. Maybe I am doing something wrong or maybe people out there are confusing mudfish with yellows. Someone posted that he had caught over 30 yellows in one day. I have not even caught that many all together. Plenty of muddies (maybe I am confusing them and I have caught more yellows than I think). Maybe I am fishing the wrong spot (Silwerstroom and Yellofish Paradise) or maybe my technique is off but I would be really happy to catch more than two yellows in one day.

A very nicely dressed nymph,

Hi, mate

Sorry for my late replay!

The fly is very successful.I use it most as a dropper.
"Works" in muddy and clear watter.

Regards

Comment to Hook Reference

Great to see all these together like this. Good work

Comment to Hook Reference

Thanks Bob! I've got lots more to add over the next little while as well. :)

Thanks, glad you li

Thanks, glad you liked it. I enjoy making them.
The music is auto-generated using some old Sony software. (it can be a bit random)
So I can't tell you a title.
All the best

Hello Martin,

Hello Martin,

www.artesanosdelacandana.com is the website of the author of the spanish book "La mosca ahogada".

He owns a small flyfishing shop near the city Leon in Spain and he also breeds the famous coq de leon-roosters for feathers used in lots of fly patterns.

In the summer of 2009 I fished a small mountain stream called Rio Curueno with Tomas as guide, a fantastic experience!

Greetings
Gino
Belgium

I usually blank

I usually blank when fly fishing but used the diawl bach a caught 6lb 13oz rainbow!

Nice video and great

Nice video and great selection of background music!

Can you share title of instrumental?

The book

DW,

The book is still in the works, but I hope to finish it within a month or so. I keep on adding new patterns to it. Maybe I should just say stop and get on with it!

And yes, adding an intermediate or sinking leader to a floating head can make good sense. It can be a pain to cast, but sometimes the only way to get down to where the fish are, especially in running water.
Adding a sinking tip does add significant weight to the setup, and depending on the capabilities of you rod, it miht be a good idea to trim a bit off the shooting head itself. Personally I think I would make several heads, individually tuned for their tips, so that I knew that every single one would cast well. A completely flexible system might be difficult to create.
You can read about making really cheap shooting heads in my Fly Line Blues article.

Hope this helps

PS: thanks for the nice words about the site!

Martin