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Fly Fishing

Fly Fishing

Welcome to The Essential Trout & Salmon Fly Fishing and Fly Tying blog. Here we will look at the latest fly fishing techniques, tackle & gear, fly fishing accessories and give you lots of tips & hints. Knowledge is king and with our monthly hatch charts available in the fly fishing season we will keep you informed about what is hatching to help you with your fly choice through the year.

For the fly tyer we have our Semperfli Academy with advice from our panel of experts on fly tying techniques, fly tying videos and advice on fly tying tools and accessories.

Rained Off

Well todays planned trip to the Don has been rained off, so gives me a bit of time to catch up etc.  Looking forward to Malham Tarn on Saturday.   A useful link I have found and started to use to study the rivers etc: http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/

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Pheasant Tail Cock Centre

Fly Tying Materials – Natural

Fly tying presents us with the ability to use a vast array of fly tying materials from old essentials like cock pheasant tail centre’s, the key ingredient to the Pheasant Tail Nymph to Cock hackles and specialist materials, ranging from scarce Jungle Cock capes to stunning materials like snipe wings, squirrel tails, Arctic Fox Tail …

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Semperfli Lever Fly Tying Vice

Fly Tying Vises

There are many fly tying vices on the market. Snowbee make the great Snowbee Waldron Vice, we have our own incredible value Semperfli Rotary Lever Vice and for beginners there is our Semperfli Bamboo Rotary Vice. For those that like something really special there is the Marc Petitjean vice. Each vice has its own features …

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Fly Tying Scissors

Fly Tying Tools

As tly tyers we use many different tools, from fly tying vices to ceramic bobbins, hair stackers to fly tying scissors. Scissors come in an amazing array of sizes and types including Tungsten scissors for fly tying, arrow point scissors for fine work and razor scissors for thicker materials like deer hair and thick feather …

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