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UV Fly Tying Materials: The Trout's Perception

SwittersB wrote 1 month ago: REED CURRY’S INFO ON A TROUT’S PERCEPTION OF UV MATERIALS c/o OFFB … more →

Tags: Photography, fly tying, swittersb, Fly Fishing, Macro, UV, Reed Curry

Paul Little ties flies

Snowdonia Fly Fishing Guides wrote 1 month ago: As well as casting and fishing demonstrations at the recent AAPGAI open day, held at Cockermouth, Pa … more →

Tags: fly fishing guides, fly fishing instruction, Fly Fishing, fly tying

Killer Shrimp4 comments

kieronjenkins wrote 1 month ago: With the intention of doing more fishing on the midlands lakes this year I thought it was about time … more →

Tags: Fly Fishing, Fly of the Week, Fly Patterns, fly tying, reservoir fishing, fishing flies, Kieron Jenkins, killer shrimp grafham shrimp, ronsfishing

Fly Tying: Higa's SOS Pattern

SwittersB wrote 1 month ago: Here is a perfect beginner’s fly pattern that I found over at Outsmarting Fish. The SOS Patter … more →

Tags: Flyfishing, Baetis Nymph, Fly Fishing, fly tying, Out Smarting Fish, outdoors, Photography, SOS Nymph, spencer higa

Fly Tying: Seeing Red..............3 comments

SwittersB wrote 2 months ago: Red used to be a hot spot of sorts for fly patterns. The fly patterns that sat in plastic bins in ha … more →

Tags: Fishing, Photography, fly tying, swittersb, Fly, fly tying, UltraViolet, outdoors, Fly Patterns

Fly Tying: Size Comparison Charts (redeux)

SwittersB wrote 2 months ago: I originally posted this back in ’09. It is a very handy piece about how to compare sizings on … more →

Tags: Flyfishing, How to tie flies, fly tying, swittersb, Fly, fly tying, outdoors, Fish, Recreation

Aileen Nishimura Ellis' Caddis Pupa w/ Sheer Ribbon4 comments

SwittersB wrote 2 months ago: I recently posted a pattern by Davie McPhail with which he used ‘sheer’ ribbon for the b … more →

Tags: fly tying, how to, swittersb, fly tying, Photography, HOW TO?, Fly Fishing, Davie McPhail, Macro Photography

Fly Tying: Tim Tollett's Smidget Pattern

SwittersB wrote 2 months ago: There are many thousands of fly patterns and derivations of those. So when I was perusing the Fronti … more →

Tags: fly tying, outdoors, HOW TO?, Video, Recreation, Fly Fishing, Tim Tollett, Smidget, Frontier Anglers

Blogging: Giving Credit Where Due7 comments

SwittersB wrote 2 months ago: I try to be very diligent in attributing credit/ownership to any photo or writings to the true sourc … more →

Tags: Fishing, Photography, Writing #2, Blogging, Fly Fishing, fly tying, giving credit, Links, swittersb

Ruff Wing Caddis

John McGranaghan wrote 3 months ago: After watching a video by the great ‘Flyspoke’, who I have learned a great deal from, I … more →

Tags: Fly Tying Stuff, Caddis Fly, Caddis patterns, fly tying, Grouse Feathers, NH fly fishing, Ruffed grouse

Fly Tying: Small, Quick Sinking Nymphs1 comment

SwittersB wrote 3 months ago: DRONLEE at Fly Tying Nation provides to step by step tutorials on tying his version of the Copper Jo … more →

Tags: fly tying, swittersb, Flies, fly tying, outdoors, HOW TO?, Tutorials, Copper John, Fly Fishing

Eleven Years to Realize7 comments

backcountryfishnerd wrote 4 months ago: Writing, deleting, tying, untying, the two foot by three foot table looks like the unorganized spill … more →

Tags: Fishing Adventures, Random, backcountryfishnerd, Clayton Rowley, Colorado Fly Fishing, Colorado tailwater, Fly Fishing, fly tying, halo midge

Formal Introductions14 comments

backcountryfishnerd wrote 4 months ago: I hate writing, there is so much I have to learn. Does a semi-colon go here? Is semi-colon hyphenate … more →

Tags: Fishing Adventures, Random, Arkansas River, backcountryfishnerd, Colorado Fly Fishing, Colorado tailwater, David Goodrich, Fly Fishing, fly tying

Don't miss this opportunity

Lucky wrote 4 months ago: Put January 26th on your calendar, because the West Slope Chapter of TU in Missoula is sponsoring a … more →

Tags: Cutthroat, volunteer projects, Monthly Meeting

Top 5 Wet flies for 20122 comments

Snowdonia Fly Fishing Guides wrote 4 months ago: My preference has always been to fish dry flies. For me there is no better way to catch than to see … more →

Tags: fly fishing guides, Fly fishing instructors, Wild Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, fly fishing instruction, Fly Fishing, Trout, Wet Fly, Buzzers

Accidents and Happenstance4 comments

backcountryfishnerd wrote 5 months ago: Sometimes when alone, we ask questions we can not answer to things that have no voice. The reasons w … more →

Tags: Random, Alaskan zygote, backcountryfishnerd, Colorado, Fly Fishing, Hail Mary, halo midge, Rainbow Trout, Tailwater

Fly Tying: Simple BH Caddis Pupa4 comments

SwittersB wrote 5 months ago: This is a very simple Bead Head (BH) Caddis Pupa pattern to tie and quite effective tumbled through … more →

Tags: Photography, Beginning Fly tying, swittersb, caddis, pupa, fly tying, Dubbing, HOW TO?, Caddis pupa

Fly Tying: Dubbed Thorax

SwittersB wrote 5 months ago: A size 14 pupa hook has an abdomen of dyed peacock herl. I blended hare’s ear and chopped up s … more →

Tags: Photography, fly tying, swittersb, Fly, fly tying, Dubbing, Fly Fishing, Macro, Bead Head

Top 5 dry flies 2012

Snowdonia Fly Fishing Guides wrote 5 months ago: With the season well and truly over and Christmas fast approaching It’s time to reflect again … more →

Tags: fly fishing guides, Fly fishing instructors, Entomology, Wild Brown Trout, fly fishing tackle, Dry Fly, Dry Fly, Wild River, fly fishing instruction


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