I hope the following is helpful for those who get confused with ‘X’ ratings and tippet sizes? Stroft Tippet & Leader Diameter Table Tippet Size Tippet Diameter Approximate breaking strength in Stroft GTM/ABR (kilos/pounds) Balances with fly sizes: Inches Millimetre Kg lb 9x .0025″ 0.06 0.70 1.50 8X .0035″ 0.08 1.00 2.20 22 – 28 …
Tag Archive: fly fishing
Feb
09
New Bloggers!
We are delighted to have some great bloggers joining us here on The Essential Fly blog. In addition to The Essential Fly team, all of our contributors and authors are very experienced and passionate anglers and tyers and are here to bring you news/hints/tips/advice on our favourite hobby! So welcome and great thanks go to …
Jan
04
New Essential Fishing Sunglasses Released – 6 Pairs of Interchangeable Lenses for Every Light Condition
New Fishing Sunglasses Released For 2012 Sun glasses are essential for fishermen, both for keeping out the sun, helping focus on a fly, seeing the trout / salmon take and most importantly to protect eyes from flying hooks! With 6 pairs of interchangeable lenses these are ideal for any light conditions from very low light …
Dec
19
Fly Fishing Toolbar Released
Thanks to Si we have a great new toolbar that you can install into your browser. This will keep you informed of news articles as they appear and allow you to search our site directly from your toolbar whatever site you are on. This is still secure but a really handy tool. For example you …
Jul
21
Summer Sale!
Just to let our Essential Fly bloggers know that we have today lauched our summer sale*! Time to bag yourself a bargain and take advantage of the discount! Flies, leaders, tackle, lines – all products are eligible under the discount. Time for some new gear maybe? Go on treat yourself…..get to the site today *Minimum …
Jul
20
Inspirational fly fishing story
This kind and inspirational Essential Fly customer shared this wonderful story with us and has given us permission to share it with you. These are her exact words – we hope you enjoy it. Im a single parent with one little boy, I cant do many sporting activities with him so at 41 years of …
Jul
11
New Buzzer Fly Fishing Mobile App Released
We have today released our mobile app for Android phones to help you with Buzzer / Chironomid Fly Fishing. The app is downloadable from the Android Marketplace directly on your mobile phone. With details on midges life-cycle,different types of buzzer flies a variety of buzzer rigs and how to fish them plus other tips and …
Jun
10
Whiting Necks & Whiting Saddles – Understanding the Colors Of Fly Tying Feathers
Fly Tying Whiting Saddle & Whiting Neck Colours When first starting fly tying we often can get confused over the colours, yes black is easy, what is cree, furnace saddle and many of the other colours that are mentioned in many of the fly tying books? Whiting saddles and Whiting necks produced by the Whiting …
Jun
05
Fly Fishing Sunglasses – HD Video Recorder & Camera Sunglasses
Essential Fly Fishing Video / Camera Polaroid Sunglasses Review Sun glasses are essential for fishermen, both for keeping out the sun, helping focus on a fly, seeing the trout / salmon below the water rise and take our fly and most importantly to protect eyes from flying hooks!I remember watching one of my wife’s TV …
May
31
HD Video 1280 x 720 and 12 mega pixel camera POLAROID FISHING SUNGLASSES
Essential Fly Fishing Video / Camera Polaroid Sunglasses (1280 x 720 pixel video 4gb video 12 mega pixel camera) Polaroid sun glasses are essential for fishermen, both for keeping out the sun, helping focus on a fly, seeing the trout / salmon take and most importantly to protect eyes from flying hooks! These fishing sunglasses …
May
26
Salmon Fishing Fly Selection
So you are going salmon fly fishing, what a superb sport but the problem is what salmon flies do you use? Well it is not like a trout where we can see them rising to flies and eating from the surface, with salmon we are triggering the predatory instinct as they cannot eat once they …
May
06
Sonic SK4 Fly Fishing Rod – First Impressions
We had our stock of Sonik fly rods arrive and I could not wait to get my hands on one of these little beauties for a full evaluation, I had enjoyed testing it prior to taking on the range but wanted to give it a real work-out!. I chose the Sonik SK4 9’6″ #8 for …
Apr
21
Tapered Leaders
So what is a tapered leader? It is a specially designed leader with a long and heavy butt for turnover power and a supple front taper for delicate presentation. A tapered leader is just tat a leader that tapers to a fine point! The thickness at the front of the leader varies according to the …
Apr
18
North East Angling Show @ Sunderland April 2011
We had a great time at Sunderland over the weekend and it was nice to meet many of our northern customers and meet many new customers. We had been interviewed on the BBC Radio Newcastle Howes Fishing show over the last few weeks talking about fly fishing with Sam Harris and his delightful wife Chris. …
Apr
18
Superb Alternatives To CF Fly Boxes
Fantastic New Waterproof Fly Box Alternative to CF35878 Fly Box Holds 672 flies! We worked with our manufacturers to produce an alternative box to the CF Design Fly Boxes at a sensible price and this stunning fly box is the result. Similar to the large CF35878 which normally retails at around £35. As usual with …
Mar
30
Light Penetration In Water Types For Fishermen for Fly Fishing or Lure Fishing
One of the most mis-understood areas in fishing is what happens to light in water. To see a colour we need that colour within the spectrum to be visible on the object we are viewing because we see colour as it is the relection of light on an object. So what is the issue? well …
Jan
02
The Rhyacophila – free swimming larva of a green sedge
The Rhyacophila is the free swimming larva of a green sedge and is best fished close to the riverbed. Large, usually green, and always plump, and they don’t build cases or nets. They roam freely about the fast water and they often drift loose, where they are a good food for trout. Find out more and how to imitate this essential trout & grayling food with a well tied simple fly.
Nov
10
The Science of Casting
Unlike other casting methods, fly fishing can be regarded as a method of casting line instead of lure. Non-flyfishing methods depend on a lure’s weight to pull line out of your reel throughout the forward motion of the cast. By design, a fly is simply too light for being cast, and thus simply follows the …
Oct
05
Pike Fly Fishing
The notion of fly fishing for Muskie fly fishing or Pike fly-fishing isn’t a new one. Books written in the course of the 19th century, and in fact earlier, explain the concept of catching our principal freshwater predator by means of hooks dressed with a variety of of fur along with feather. A bit more recently fly-fishing for Muskie or Pike has matured in acceptance, not just in its place into the customary methods utilized by Muskie or Pike fishermen, but additionally as being a spanking new challenge to an mounting quantity of sport fly fishermen emerging from a more established game fly fishing background……………..
Sep
29
Pheasant Tail Nymph – the closest you can get to a fly for all seasons
The Pheasant Tail nymphs remains one of the most popular and widely used nymphs world-wide. There is no fly that is a “fly for all seasons” as we have to match the hatch which varies all year, however as most sub-surface food lives close to #the bottom# the weighted Pheasant Tail is probably the closest you can get to a fly for all seasons…………
Fly Fishing / Fly Tying Videos
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