Picric is used in fly tying for many years. Partridge dyed in Picric acid have a nice bright yellow-lemmon color. I use these kind of feathers on my wet flies and I really love how they look. No mention that trout and grayling love my flies tied with Picric. I do not know if are ...
Ceramic Nymmphs and how to make them much faster
Ceramic nymphs are known in France and became popular with the help of a French tier - Stan. These flies are developed for fishing in rivers with high fishing pressure, where educated fish are very careful in what they pick from water surface or from the river bed. Beaded flies are not so effective in ...
Vosseler Vice – the winer is…..?!
Hi guys, We had around 200 participants at this draw. Sunday we counted and made a the final list. In the end we have the pleasure to announce the happy winner!. The guy is: Zoltan Kertes! Zoltan please contact us when you will read your email :) Cheers!
UV Resin and hot spots for wet flies
From a while hot spots were made of hot colored thread. Now they can be made with UV resin. It is a different and interesting approach , sometimes is faster to use resin other times not. But interesting bodies can be created in the same time. At this time I tied several spiders using resin just ...
Would you like to win a Vosseler Vice?
Everybody can win a Vosseler Vice (Silver Edition)! It is a Troutline offer for all tiers and is valid only for January 2019. To be qualified and to have that chance to enter in the withdraw you need to follow a few rules: *be a Troutline client and to place in January at least ...
Spent CDC Flies
Spent CDC Flies ca be tied very easy if you have the proper CDC. Here is a version that I like to make to imitate a spent ephemera and is tied only with CDC barbs (means barbs stripped from the feather stem).For a size #14 I used the barbs for 3 feathers to make the ...
Dun Quills CDC flies
These flies are probably the most efficient CDC flies tied with body made of peacock quill. They are simple and efficient if you choose the right color and the right size. The wing is made of CDC tied using combined technique. Floats excellent, easy to notice on the water, great water print, there ...
Tying Riddle: Guess the size of the hook and the body material
Sometimes grayling and trout eat only midges and larvae. Here is one that I love it. i started tying it years ago when I hooked an submerged branch rotted and full with small midges. I switch from my pheasant tail nymphs used and I started to catch better and bigger fish. From that moment I ...
Spanish Bomb Perdigon
Ok guys, there is no bomb, only a super heavy nymph called "the perdigon bomb". What is special at this fly: colors and weight. The under-body is made of tungsten Javi and the body is super colored in hot shades to attract the fish attention. No tail no dubbing, only resin coating ...
Simple Peacock Quill and CDC Emergers
These Simple Peacock Quill and CDC Emergers are easy to tie and can be used for lake fishing and river fishing in the same time. The #14 should be the biggest size used. I prefer to tie on size #16 but sometimes I go down even on #20 and 22. I like the sparkle from thorax but ...