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 ...
In a short period of time from now on a plenty of Danica will fly over rivers. It is better to be prepared with a couple of weeks before and to have a few effective nymph imitations of Ephemera Danica because trout will start eating them in great frenzy. The nymph that I recommend you is ...
In realistic fly tying world you need a tone of patience, a lot of expensive and rare materials and to be a skillful and talented tier. A nymph or an emerger or a dry fly tied in this way will take at least half hour to finish. At least , because I saw flies ...
