How to choose tungsten beads for your nymphs or streamers is essential. If the inside hole is too large or too narrow is not good. If the coating will fall quick , again is not good. If the type of the bead is slotted and the slits are too large will fall from your hook ...
The second part about "How to make macro photos for your flies" is about lighting. Based on my experience in more then 10 years of making macro photos I can say that the rules are: 1. Direct light is not good 2. Diffused light is better than directed light 3. Reflected light is better than ...
I decided to start this tutorial about "how to make macro photos for your flies" because I receive almost every week questions on forums or via email about how I make my photos and what cams I use. Some considered that the success of my photos or the good quality is due to my cameras but ...
Finally is Summer. The rivers are nice, outside is warm even in high mountains, insects are everywhere. Unfortunately the fish are full with food and is starting to be difficult to catch from now on. The time for Big flies like hige GHRE variants and Peeping Caddis tied on size 8, 10 and 12 hooks are ...
Fishing with nymphs in this period is probably the most effective style. Levels of rivers are high, more or less clear and fish are eating in frenzy.In April the most efficient flies are GRHE in different variants. Also peeping caddis are efficient tied in different styles. At the end of the June caddis pupae nd ...
Maruto is one of the best producer of fly hooks and the barbless series is really exceptional. The best models are Maruto D04BL, Maruto D23BL, Maruto D9626BL , Maruto C47BL , Maruto C46WBL and Maruto D21BL. Today we made a simple test to see how light is the wire of these hooks and we took a ...
These ants are considered lately more efficient than those tied on classic hooks with straight hook shanks . The curved shape also called grub shape or caddis shape type of hook, especially Demmon DGS 900BL gives a nice look more close to the anatomical shape of insects. Ok a good observer will tell you that an ant ...
Hi friends, I decided to make a step by step for this nymph that I use with success in almost all waters especially when I used long nymphing in ginger clear rivers with medium or small current. To tie a micro baetis nymph that should work you should take in consideration 2 aspects : size and ...
Fishing in lakes means buzzers. There are lot of models but why you shouldn't try to tie a buzzer with catgut? Here is a model tied with red catgut biothread from Troutline. Looks normal when the material is wet but when gets wet looks really nasty! :) And here the same fly but wet: You can ...
This GRHE CDC Variant is a fly that I use mostly in the first part of the season. I like it very much together with classic GRHE and nymphs tied with pheasant barbs. Usually when water is fast flowing I use a simple GRHE but when the level is low and I have to induce ...
