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wow these are some absaloutly beautiful patterns . where did you find them ?. i tip my hat to you sir . nice ..

Bob,

Tinsel is one of the most commonly used materials in fly tying, and flat silver tinsel is the flattened, shiny version of it. A simple search on the web and you will find thousands of sources for it. It's found in any shop with fly tying materials.

Martin

Roger,

No, I don't do this commercially, and apart from a couple of frames, which I gave away, I still have all the ones I made. There are commercial framers out there who might help you. Try inquiring in your local flyshop or club and someone might be able to help you. Or give it a go yourself. It's pretty easy.

Martin

Submitted by Phil Ewanicki on

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Good, but incomplete advice. Expert anglers by their own admission commonly carry six to eight fully rigged fly rods along when they fish. The majority of your steps will have to be repeated six or eight times.
Time on the water is precious, so to assemble and rig all these rods before lunch the angler will have to arrive at his embarkation point well before dawn. A propane lantern is a necessity, as is a rod rack to prevent stepping on or tangling rods an lines.

Submitted by Bob vincent on

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Hi,
Confused about source "flat silver Tinsel". what does it mean

Thanks

Bob V

Guilty as charged - thats a nice description of most the anglers I know....lovely...I wont change a thing...reminds me once going nightfishing with a good buddy, doing "the walk" to the water in darkness I notice that my friends flyline is "selfilluminated" and I naturally ask why? His appauling answer was this: It is? i didnt know that! Then I asked him where he got i from and his even worse answer was: At the local fleemarket for 50 dKr.....I was in shock.... :-) (By the way he got the bigger fish.....)

Submitted by dante cassani on

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conratulations for this page i like very much dante

Submitted by Arne on

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I am so happy that crowded beaches at the baltic are emptying immediately when I arrive because I still wear neoprene in winter and....good god, drink beer of the can they sell it in at the filling station.
Like fishing 20 years ago, but without wearing the rubber Oceans' anymore. Just perfect!

Submitted by Mika Hautanen on

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Just wonderfull flies!
I'm big fan of classic trout flies.
I've use many years these classic flies and they are very good fish catchers!

Submitted by Norman Donnelly on

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From Norman
Thank you for this wonderful webb site on flytying which is then put unto to videos excellent keep the good work coming.

Submitted by capt. brian moran on

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beauty of a streamer,i tend to reach for one when the water is high and off coloured ,slow and deep produces well,when the trout are biting of course,great instruction photos.

John,

I'm not trying to offend anybody, but adding dubbing to a hook can hardly be called an invention can it? Nobody's trying to steal the thunder from Walt here (I never heard of him or his fly before now!), but I'd be surprised if somebody hadn't done this before Walt... like Frank Saywer. Try googling Saywer's Killer Bug and you will find something very similar to Walt's Worm and somewhat similar to this fly.

Flies as simple as this one is nobody's invention. They have been "invented" and tied by thousands of fly tyers all over the world for hundreds of years.

Martin

Submitted by Thomas 1737246348 on

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Great film, i'd love to know where they filmed it, it looks awesome!

Submitted by Eduardo Ferrar… on

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Today no doubt the new equipment allows us to fish in comfort, something that did not exist a few years ago. But I think there is a wild market that influences our choices and tastes, sometimes unnecessarily, causing a loss of personality styles in regional or local. In response to this there are some particular styles of each place in the world fly fishing struggling to maintain this regional personality. See the article I wrote on a blog from Brazil (In Portuguese, ed.).

Regards, Eduardo

Cordell,

The preparation merely consist of taking of a few barbs--5-10 or so depending on the size of the fly--from one side of the feather, keeping them together as a flat band to form the back of the fly.

Martin

Submitted by Cordell Perkins on

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Will someone explain to me what is meant by a 'prepared turkey feather' from step one? Thank you

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