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Rackelhanen
Read the article on the amazing, classic Swedish fly
"Rackelhanen", by Kenneth Boström. 100kB Published 1995-12-20 |
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Knekestorparen
Most good flies are also simple flies, and Knekestorparen is
really a very simple fly - but also a fly with real great qualities when
it comes to attracting surface feeding fish. By Gunnar Johnson
1982
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Hanger pupae
This fly I tied for attracting fish when eating pupae and other insects
just below the surface and you want to know that the fly floats at the
right depth. The length of nylon cord can be advantageously varied so
that the flies may float at different depths. By Niklas Andersson
(2013-01-30)
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Stonefly nymph,
type heavy
The fly is supposed to be effective for fishing in Baltak and
other streaming waters, so why hesitate. Easy to tie and a real
treat for the fish. By Johan Sjunnestad
(2013-01-17)
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Twisted Palmer
Fly designed for fishing fast
flowing waters. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-12-27)
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Coloring Raw Tubes
A look into some alternative
methods of coloring tubes. By Bob Kenly (2012-12-10)
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Powder paint your
tubes and bead heads
Tube tyers are opening up their
eyes to the possibilities of adding an extra kick to their favourite
patterns. As fishermen, we all know that colour definitely makes a
difference. Powder Paints gives you the freedom to colour your favourite
metal tubes or bead heads. By Stuart Anderson (2012-12-11)
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Snowshoe
Sparkle Dun
Using hair from
Snowshoe hare feet are popularity among tiers. The dense, curly
underfur holds a lot of air bubbles. It is easily compressed, so
it is tied in without too much bulk. The hair is very
hydrophobic and buoyant. By Martin Westbeek
(2012-11-07)
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Twisted hackle
This artificial fly, how to create an extended body by
twisting an entire hackle CDC. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-10-11)
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Upset hackle
This artificial fly, built on small hooks is very good for
trout and grayling. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-09-02)
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The Modular
Tube Fly - Part 2
Will cover adding and
removing weight to your flies. This is one of my favorite options in the
Modular Tube Fly System and is definitely one of the most valuable as
well. By Benson Adams
(2012-09-02)
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The Modular
Tube Fly - Part 1
One of the biggest upsides to tying
on tubes, whether they be metal or plastic, is that they are highly
modular with multiple options that can be swapped in and out. By Benson
Adams (2012-07-16)
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Loop body
Experimenting with new
ways to construct the extended body. By Agostino Roncallo
2012-07-01
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Tube Fly Vise - The Basics
One of the first steps
to tying a tube fly would be to purchase or create a tube
fly vise. You can accomplish this in many ways. The simplest
method, and the most inexpensive is to purchase a few
different sizes of blind eye hooks. By Benson Adams
2012-06-15
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Tube body &
Split hackles
Improvement of earlier
described assembly that allows you to create wings formed by barbs of a
cock's hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-05-31)
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Caseless Caddis (Ryacophila)
Trout really love them.
On a season-long base, caddis larva's are arguably the most
prolific trout food and we are crazy not to use them. A
caddis larva imitation should be in our fly boxes at all
times. By Hans van Klinken
(2012-05-12)
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The Green Glomma Duns
The winter of 1989/1990 was
reserved for attempting to tie several flies, which looked almost
exactly like the actual insects. My priority was to create some good
looking and effective Mayfly patterns. By Hans van Klinken
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Tiny BWO
Various emerger patterns are quite
successful, usually tied with CDC wings. This time I would like to show
the one that was the most successful for me, which I call Tiny BWO,
because it works best when tied on small hooks. By Goran Grubic
(2012-04-06)
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Chest & CDC wing
One of the simplest and
most effective ways to mount the Cul de Canard is the system
that were built in the traditional Moustique Swiss Jura; fix the
hackle of CDC on the shank of the hook and wraps around it like
a cock's hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-01-15)
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CDC an MP tying material
- Bring only one tying material with you. The one and only
material - after my firm opinion - appropriate for taking up
this challenge would be CDC. Article by Leon Links
(2011-12-03)
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Midges
by Agostino Roncallo
(2011-12-03)
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CDC Ant
In the book, "Magie in CDC", I proposed an ant that is built
using one CDC hackle. A fly is effective, especially for fishing
grayling. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-10-30)
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Cul De Canard
against all rules (part one)
The Culard.
CDC has been used by a small number
of anglers in the Swiss Jura for about a century. By Hans van Klinken
(2011-10-06)
Cul De Canard
against all rules (part two)
Once and Away
One of my best and most beautiful
emerging patterns I ever made and is especially designed to be almost
unsinkable.
By Hans van Klinken
(2011-10-06) |
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Junction Tubes,
A New Approach
Tube flies have exploded in
popularity in the past decade, and with that explosion new
approaches and techniques to fish them have grown exponentially.
Junction tubes (also known as hook sleeves) are an important
part of the whole tube fly package. By Stuart Anderson (2011-09-20) |
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Palomino
Fly tying: Easy way to get a detached body. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-06-11) |
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Footprint Fly
Style - Ephemeroptera
(RWU Dun - Right Way Up Hook Dun) By L. T. Threadgold
(2011-05-31) |
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Deer hair
ant
I was "forced" to devise a my own procedure to create a imitation, and after several trials, I
came up with the following method. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-05-02) |
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Refracta Fly
To get the support collar of a passing imitation used two
rooster hackles, one with long and elastic beards and another
shorter and more rigid.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-04-01) |
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Calf Tail
When darkness falls, I do not want
to stop fishing. The calf's tail dyed yellow gives me great visibility,
so my flies for the Coup de soir have wings in this type of hair.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-03-08) Both in English and
Italian. |
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Tube body & parachute
Building the tube bodies with use of common silicone
colorless sealant.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-02-06) Both in English and
Italian. |
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R Nimph
In my opinion, the
model of a fly must to be born from a simple idea and should be easy
to achieve. By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-12-26) |
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Hook Bent
How to create a fly that sits correct on the water
surface. Fly tying article by Agostino Roncallo.
(2010-11-20) |
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Roncallo Special
This is one of the first artificial
flies that I dressed with CDC. Arose from a modification that I made
of John Goddard's and Brian Clarke's "Suspender Nymph". By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-10-19) |
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Synthetic raffia
New and cheap substitute for
raffia, a syntetic material presented by Agostino Roncallo
(2010-09-07) |
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Gold Balls &
Silver Bullets
Beadheads are very effective
patterns for any other watercourse. Their value has been noticed by
a growing number of fly fishers, and they are accounting for some
good fish, whether in running or still water. By Hans van Klinken.
2010-09-07 |
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The Blair Mouse Project
I laughed when I read the pattern's
name, "The Blair Mouse Project", probably named somewhat after a
cult film I absolutely hated and didn't have a clue what all the
talk was about. Article by Bob Kenly |
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Gripper Pad
part two
Sometimes
it happens that I find new materials that can be used for building
artificial flies. I have found one of a real interest. By Agostino Roncallo.
2010-06-01 |
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Tying
The Steelhead Caddis
Using something a little out of the
ordinary might just be what the fish were looking for. By Jason Akl
(2010-05-15) |
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Gripper Pad
Sometimes
it happens that I find new materials that can be used for building
artificial flies. I have found one of a real interest. By Agostino Roncallo.
2010-05-01 |
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The X foam
New technique for tying hackle on dry
flies, using x-foam, by Agostino Roncallo. 2010-04-02 |
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Mirage
For
many years this fly pattern was the secret weapon that I used for
capture graylings and trout, particularly difficult ones. By Agostino
Roncallo (2010-03-01) |
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HPU Brite-Eyed Emerald
Shiner
The Emerald Shiner is now the most abundant minnow in the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers. By Fox Statler. (2010-02-23) |
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My Parachute
Helpful method for tying parachute hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-02-15) |
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The
Yallerhammer, a truly American Fly
It is generally accepted that it
was the Cherokees who first brought down a Yellow-shafted Flicker
with a blowgun, wrapped its bright quill around a hook, and caught a
trout. Maybe the Cherokee indians tied
this fly as they tied the deer hair fly, reverse Palmer style. Article
by Bruce E. Harang
(2010-02-06) |
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The Remerger
Unweighted nymphs, flymphs and emergers, but because I think that
this pattern has all these properties built into it, I gave this fly
the striking name. By Hans van Klinken
(2009-11-15) |
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Angle flies,
method to tie dry flies, by Geir Kjensmo (2009-07-25) |
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HPU Patterns
All Hook-Point-Up (HPU)
patterns have three components. First, lead or brass eyes placed
below the hook-eye. Second, some sort of tying material such as deer
hair, feathers, fur, or hanked material tied in above the hook-eye.
Third, a sturdy and often large streamer hook. By Fox Statler
2008-01-26 |
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Linda's Shrimp,
Shrimp fly tying article, fly pattern,
by Bob Kenly (2007-06-22) |
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| Ants,
Fly tying article by By Gianluca Nocentini
(2007-03-18) |
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| The Boss,
a simple salmon/steelhead fly pattern, known to everyone who fishes
Alaska, The Boss, an all purpose fly.
By Bob Kenly 2007-02-25 |
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Coloured
tubes. Perspectives.
Using colored plastic tubed for salmon tube flies. Also abaout
using Serebrjanka dubbing. Fly tying article by Jurij Shumakov (2006-06-06)
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Little
Witchy
Flytying article.
Trolling flies like the Witchy are made to play into the voracious
feeding behavior of large predatory fish, or more simply put just
attract as much attention as possible in hopes that a lunker will
take a quick swipe at the fly. By Jason Akl (2006-03-01
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Why
wax?
A
properly waxed thread is both rouge and adheres more readily to your
materials. This enables you to tie stronger flies with fewer thread
winds resulting in a neater and more attractive fly. By Anders Isberg (2005-12-10)
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The
Turbo Shrimp,
From Russia To Alaska, Spinner fly article by Bob Kenly (2005-10-15)
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| The
Scurr
(Heptagenid / Stoneclinger) lifelike fly tying by James Matthews
(2005-05-20)
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| The
Cascade Prawn - A study in Fly Tying -
"base coating" and "color layering" Also
presenting steelhed flies by
Jack Cook (2005-05-08)
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Big
Eye Spoon Fly
Fly tying
article, about fly that imitate crabs or injured bait fish. Fly
developed for fishing Redfish but is probably also good for Sea-trout,
Snook, Striped Bass, Bluefish, and Mackerel. By Jason Akl (2005-02-26) |
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Spinner’d
Minners
Fly tying arcticle by Fox Statler. Tying a very special fly with
spinning spoon.
(2005-02-12) |
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Breathing Dragon
Fly tying
article, about Dragon flies. By Jason Akl (2005-02-02) |
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Hackling CDC
Fly tying article, describing "Light greenish CDC Dun", by
Leon Links (2005-01-28) |
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Matthews' Peccadillo
Fly tying article on great grayling fly, imitating caddi larvae, hydropsyche. By James Matthews (2004-12-14) |
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| My preferred flies,
three flies, tying descriptions; Olive Biot
Dun, P.A. Emerging, Emergent Hare's Ear. By Gianluca Nocetini. (2004-05-04) |
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| PT Stone stone
fly imitation, fly tying article by Jason Akl (2004-03-28) |
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| Hot Spot Caddis bead head
flies to imitate caddis flies at larval stage, fly tying article by Jason
Akl (2004-03-14) |
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| Super Bunny rabbit fur
streamer, fly tying article by Jason Akl (2004-02-28) |
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| Flopper (the fallen
hopper) fly tying article by Jason Akl (2004-02-14) |
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| Fox's Mudbugs, article with several fly patterns of the same
serie, by Fox Statler (2004-01-31) |
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| The Oligochaete
Worm, Could every "San Juan
Worm" that has ever been tied be wrong? By Fox Statler. (2003-12-21) |
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| Madam X Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-10-12) |
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| Swinger Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-09-27) |
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| Rabid Prince Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-09-16) |
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| Happy mistake, article on Interchangeable tube fly bodies by
Jurij Shumakov (2003-01-26) |
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| Leeches, ...disgusting according to us, but the rainbow
thinks different. By Gunnar Johnson (2001-11-16) |
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| Foam no.5, by Niclas Andersson. A different mayfly where the shape, silhouette and
impression is the most important. (Published 2001-06-12) |
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| "True
Man" hook, A presentation of
the "True Man" hook, for balancing and improving tube flies. By Jurij Shumakov.
(Published 2000-05-27) |
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| Streaking Caddis A presentation of the famous Swedish dry fly that
imitates caddis. By Lennart Bergqvist and Kenneth Boström (1998-07-29) 136 kb. |
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| In the spell of
the Rackehanen, Rackelhanen,
Thank you! Hans van Klinken tell us a story of his first meeting with the fly Rackelhanen.
(Published 980103) |
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