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Both work with PayPal

John,

Both Ko-fi an Patreon accept payments with PayPal, so the options can both be used in the US as well as in Europe and the rest of the world.

Martin

Financial help

Any american way to donate bucks? PayPal? Band Check?

Rattlesnake Articulated Streamer

Great Pattern....Can't wait to try it!

No step-by-step exists

James,

The shrimp fly was submitted for an article many, many years ago, and there was only this one finished fly and no other information: no materials, no description, no step-by-step.

The only way to get it tied is probably to arm yourself with some LCR (Lagathu very likely used epoxy), some mono eyes, a bit of hair and dubbing, rib etc. and start experimenting.

Martin

does a pattern list exist ?

i was just wondering if there are any videos or step by step instructions on how to tie the Lagathu's shrimp fly ? I found lots of pics on the global fly fisher site just cant seem to find a how to make section any help on this would be very helpful thank you

Congratulations Tom, when I

Congratulations Tom, when I saw the drawings, the metal and wood parts and the design I thought of a project in style Leonardo da Vinci, magnificent.

Classic Atlantic Salmon Flies

Michael D. Randencich's Classic Salmon Fly Patterns is a compendium of individual fly patterns from old world masters that transports our minds to a different time and place in history. Using this book as a guide allows classic tiers to see how feather-wing salmon flies were made in the 19th century.

Thanks, Martin

Thanks, Martin
I’ll keep trying. Really nice looking fly.
Joe

Furling

Joe,

In order for things to furl, they really need to be twisted a lot.

In technique shown, you need some long fibered dubbing and you need to twist it into a dense yarn before it furls. Grab each end of a bit of the dubbing and pull it out to about a couple of centimeters or shy of 1 inch in length.

Twist one end between thumb and index finger while holding it tight in the other end. Counting turns isn't easy, but 10-20 turns is probably a good goal. This should result in an almost smooth, spiraled yarn, that furls willingly around itself when you double it. It's important not to let go of either end at any time during and after the process. It will be locked when you tie it in.

Maybe practice with a little piece of real yarn to master the technique - or simply use yarn and brush it a bit afterwards.

Martin

Furling the dubbing

I cannot spin the dubbing enough to get it to furl on itself. It looks like a loop off the back of the hook. Do you have any tricks or suggestions to spin it more?
Thanks. Really like the look of the Twisto Caddis.....or at least YOUR Twisto Caddis!
Joe

amazing title

do me a favor, keep writing wonderfully!
Jose Elias

Elkhorne Creek

Fished when warm, stinks like heck from sewage. There is trash everywhere. I caught a ten pound teddy bear. Couldn't pay me to go back there.

Incapicity

Martin,
First, thanks for your efforts, secondly, as a sufferer of peripheral neuropathy, I can almost feel the frustrations I imagine are yours, although I only have leg weakness at the moment, with a little problem with fine manipulation starting. As I have, for a time, felt an urge to learn to fly fish, your site has been my bible, so great thanks to you and all contributors. Please accept my thanks and admiration for what you are doing, and when I become frustrated, I can now think of what you are accomplishing, and collect myself and carry on! My fly tying is still at the "bin" stage, but slowly improving, while casting is stuck at a non-haul" level! Thanks again.
Terry

Thank you!

Yesterday I saw the video of the river Mur and what so called "Green Energie" can destroy -by the way not only waterpower stations and dams, but also windenergy... A very great, impressing film and it was fantastic to see and feel the passion of all the taimen-fishermen!! Thank you!!

Cork & Balsa Body Materials

Hi Jerri Bullock: yes, the book goes into great detail regarding how to use cork and balsa. Both cork and balsa are still very much relevant as popper, slider and diver making.

Giant buzzers

Excellent article thanks,I tied up one on B175 size 6 black thread red wire rib orange goose biot cheeks whilst it did look kind of cool! It was ridiculously huge! Surely it can't work?? Fished it yesterday floating line 13ft leader to my utter amazement it took 8 rainbows and I missed a few the takes were savage - thanks another pattern in my arsenal. I came home and tied 14 more giant buzzers

Body materials

Does the book talk about using cork and balsa in popper making? I still use both, although I think that I'm now in the lost art stage, especially in using cork. LOL

Congratulations on the new

Congratulations on the new place - from what little I've seen of the area outside of Copenhagen, it is very beautiful. And, yes, thanks very much for being around to read - you're site has always had a lot of good content. I feel interest in fly fishing in general has been growing here in America, while (perhaps?) declining globally? Which is concerning. At any rate, there are many more sites now than there ever were before, and yet I still coming back to this one...

Sounds good

David,

That sounds like a pretty good improvement of the pattern. I like simple patterns, but your changes will definitely make the fly more mouse-like. I'd love to see a picture.

Martin

Sydney opera mouse

I liked the Sydney opera mouse but it looked like something was missing. I spun three clumps of white deer hair on the hook then trimmed the hair flat on the bottom of the hook,then I tied the foam down at the eye then pulled it over the deer hair and tied the foam down in the back. I tied a narrow piece of leather in the back for a tail. I used 3D craft paint black for eyes,paint brush brissels for whiskers .looks pretty cool can't wait to see how it fishes

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Dad's Fly

Than you for posting this video. Dad would be happy that others are still tying his pattern.
Respectfully,
Wade Blevins

Wet flies

I like a lot of your flies, I'm a sea trout fly Fisher so a size 10,8,6 there great

Looking to cnc my own reel

Wondering if you would send me an E-mail so I could pick your brain about making my own reel. I work at a machine shop and really want to make my first fly real