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Submitted by Robin R on

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That is one good looking streamer. And, in addition to aesthetics, it will also surely catch some fish.

Submitted by Rod Hart on

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Martin Hi! I have found the US including North Americas Amazon Outlet to be the most expensive with books always being unavailable at the time of asking, but mysteriously appearing a few days to a week later at a very obviously inflated price having never appeared on the for sale index applicable to that specific seller. American fly fishing items across the board seem to increase in value immediately Europe or the United Kingdom is mentioned in the UK importers mearly change the US $ sign to pounds or Euro's then add the taxes applicable to that country which doubles the cost of the item for no effort on behalf of the dealer and defintely No cost to him/her either but, makes them a grand profit without stroking a bat. Bless the poor souls. A recent article on one of the tying sites clearly points out the fact that US fly takle firms are ripping European and British fly fishers of at every turn.
Tight Lines and thank you for the effort you put into this site and the Wealth of Information the site makes available to everyone for free.

Submitted by Sigi Bramley-Gonnsen on

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Ach, Preben, it is eight years too late, that I remember your name. That and your character were mentioned many a time by my late husband Alan Bramley, then of Partridge of Redditch. I think, he visited you a number of times and enjoyed keeping in touch with you. And now, 11 years after Alan passed away, I find myself back in Germany for a lot of my time, very near the border to Denmark with its lovely small trout streams where Alan would give Jim Nice's flies a good swim whenever we visited my former homepatch here in Nordfriesland.
My thoughts were turning to that wee 6ft splitcane 'Evening Rise' , crafted by Tom Moran in the eighties, and still lying here virginal in its beautiful Danish Palisander wood case, waiting like Sleeping Beauty, to be awakened with a magic touch to the flyfisher's rythmical swing. "I would like you to present me with a short splitcane flyrod for our wedding, so that when I'm sixty and you are no longer any serious competition, I can take up flyfishing". So there it lay on our bed on the morning of our wedding.

Well, soon I'll be 54, and it seems about time I started to search out those wee streams so loved by Alan again.
But who can teach me now to cast and tie flies? So Preben came suddenly to mind and I dived into the internet only to find that he also had passed on. May he continue to enjoy dabbling his flies in the eternal heavenly river and remain as young at heart as he evidently was in real life...
And I, for the rest of my life, can be sorry that I never met you, whose wit and character shone through even just in Alan's talking about you.

How often did you fish this pattern and how many fish of which kind did you catch . thanks a lot for your ideas. I use packaging materials also. So patterns and funny ideas on how to use waste is always welcome
br
pit

Submitted by Bahman Atrforoush on

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Dear friend, Hi, I love fishing and fly fishing for trout,in fact my country is in dry zone of the earth, and we have limit places for fishing but many people loves to go to fishing like in rivers and in the lakes, in above paintings I found sun set image near mountain, which is very similar to our Damavand mountain and it's peak, and there is a valley which has a very nice river named Lar, thanks for you interest in nature and is it possible I download some of your painting, am I allow?

Don't drop that box!!!

Very nice tying, you've certainly a good selection there. Martin is right, that is real production fly tying.

Have a good trip and please share the results.

Cheers,
C.

For 90% of the time I would go for ceramic. Either insert or full tube. The only exception to this I have found is Matarelli bobbin holders. The metal tube on these is hard enough not to wear.

To give you an idea I can wear out a metal tubed bobbin holder in about a month. Some of my ceramic ones are still going after 10 years. They do cost more initially. Mostly I use TMC bobbin holders (though I modify them by removing the rubber tubing and replacing with hot melt glue around the joint). They cost about 4 times the price, but are worth every penny.

If you are tying mostly salt water patterns you will be using more pressure and more thread than if you were tying, say, trout patterns. That means you'll wear groves into the tube even faster.

Cheers,
C.

The clouser is a nice tying principle.
If I tie clousers in smaller sizes (I fish them with good success in size 8 and 10), I replace the bucktail with squirrel or polar fox hair. Make sure you place the eyes a good distance from the frontof the fly,
TL
Florian

when it comes to tools, as a cheap tool will only add to the frustration when
your starting out learning the art of tyeing !!!
A short list of tools you will need and use often,
sclssors..an ultra fine tip , a fine tip and a curved tip
a bodkin tool
hackle pliers
bobbin holders ceramic tip in different lengths short tip for the tiny stuff and long for the big stuff
wire cutters ..dont use your scissors for wire
bobbin threaders
bobbin tip cleaners
hair stacker and packer
dubbin loop tool

I'm sure the list will grow as you learn

Submitted by Allen Smith on

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I am looking for "multi color rod wrapping thread" size E or D

Martin,
I saw this article just now - a very precise look at the things that really matter. Thanks for that.
But the 'This is for fun' extra headline bothers me.......I am sure that who doesn't understand it right without it, won't understand ever!

Cheers

Jan

Submitted by Peter on

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David,
That is perhaps the most spectacular color combination on a streamer I have ever seen. Something about it resonates with me. Great job!
-Peter

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