Jul
11
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
13
What is a Trout Fly? An artificial trout fly or trout lure is a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing (although flies they may also be used in other forms of angling for example carp anglers use carp flies with standard coarse fishing rods). It can be said artificial …
Jun
12
So what is the big deal over grizzly necks or grizzle necks for fly tying? Grizzle necks have superb banding makes superb hackles for dry flies. There are Chinese capes and Indian capes HOWEVER these are not generally considered as dry fly hackles in the professional fly tying market. Grizzle capes and grizzle saddles are …
Apr
21
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
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
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 …
Mar
17
So what is the benefit of cdc feathers for the fly fisherman? Why do cdc flies float so well? This short article examines the benefits of cdc feathers.
Jan
02
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
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
13
The Caddis fly, (Trichopetra) or sedges can be found anywhere there is fresh water. These are important flies for fly fishermen. The drab coloured adults are moth-like however their body and wings are covered with hairs. Another distinguisihing feature is that the caddis do not have a coiled proboscis. Their wings are held over the body in a tent like fashion. Mostly nocturnal, the adults hide in vegetation during the hours of daylight and are hard to find. Mating takes place at dusk, either in flight or on vegetation. Their bodies range in size from 2mm to 28mm (1.25 inches)…………….
Sep
29
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…………
Aug
15
When fishing for River Trout there are many different types of flies that can be used for fly fishing. They fall into 4 major categories of fly types, wet, dry, nymph & buzzer or lures. The major flies used for River River Trout are dry flies, wet flies, buzzers and nymphs. In this article we will focus on the most exciting type of fly fishing fly, the dry fly…………………………
Jul
16
Possibly the two most important fishing flies ever tied are the pheasant tail nymph and gold ribbed hares ear nymph (GRHE). If you examine every fly fisherman world-wide, regardless of species that they are targetting then these would probably be the most prolific fly world-wide…………………..
Mar
28
For fly fishermen there are lots of Buzzers Buzzers, boring buzzers! Buzzers, there are lots of, ranging from anorexic buzzer and epoxy buzzer hybrids not counting the many variants like Chew Buzzers and Shipman’s Buzzers. Sandy Dickson decided t re-design the trout buzzer fly with trigger point thoraxes specifically designed for different light conditions at different depths and at different times of day and size- the buzzers had to look ‘real’ to trout, they needed to make anorexic buzzers look fat but they had to be lifelike, ribbed but not like many of the horrific ribs found onso many buzzers today.
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