Trout parachute flies are my way to go if the weather let me to use dry flies. I'm an avid fisherman and I love to fish not only with nymphs and streamers but also with dry flies. My favourite style is dry fly fishing with small flies but they are more and more difficult to ...
Nutria Blue Spiky Wet Fly
Nutria Blue Spiky Wet Fly is a simple and bushy fly that suits for fishing in a team with other wet flies. Nutria Blue Spiky Wet Fly suits perfectly for lake fishing and big river fishing and works as a great stimulator fly. The colour combination and dubbing texture make the fly the proper way ...
Easy Dub Micro Chenille – a great tying material for small flies
I found it long time ago in UK, Veniard is selling it in a large spectrum of colors. This chenille is really fantastic due to his structure and size. Here are photos of this material: The core is a kind of thread which is semi rigid, not like wire but not very soft. That is good because ...
Micro Peeping Caddis Nymph
If you fish in very slow running waters which are not deep and you see the fish eating then you need something small and appealing to it! One of my favourite small nymph ( tied on size #18-20 hooks ) is a peeping caddis. I love this model of nymph because is slim, delicate and ...
Mink Micro Zonkers
I Troutline shop arrived lots of furs from all kind of animals. In a bag I found lots of tails with nice and super dense fur. Those tails with super soft, short, dense with nice guard-fur were from minks. I had a short chat with somebody from shop and I took 3 tails, ...
Tying Tips – Avoiding quill snapping
Nothing is more frustrating that a snapped quill when you want to make your favourite dry fly. I use a lot rooster quill because is natural. I hate plastic and I try to avoid it as much as possible. It is cheap and has unique colors and shades. Another thing : it is ...
Jan Rozman and his Slovenian scuds
Jan Rozman is known in Slovenia as a fantastic fisherman who hunts huge marble trout with big streamers. He walk on the river side to check after good spots and is looking for any sign of trout marble activity. Then he catch them ! He knows why and if Facebook account is full with ...
Purple Winged Coffee Nymph
It is a simple fly where I used synthetic dubbing as"wing". Instead CDC which is fantastic and has a great success due to his mobility in water, this time I preferred to use purple dubbing to give an extra color and extra sparkle to this fly. I mainly use in late Autumn for grayling ...
Perdigon Skin – a new tying material in Troutline shop
Perdigon skin is a new tying material dedicated for tying perdigon nymphs. It is kind of plastic sheet cut in strips in different sizes. Perdigon skin has another great advance, it is dyed in different colours to cover the spectrum used by fishermen. You can increase, decrease or even change the final colour of the ...
Tying tips – choosing the proper tying thread for river flies
These days you will find all kind of threads dedicated for fly tying purposes. I want to be short and I will write about choosing the proper tying thread for river flies. Talking about river flies it is good to have in mind that we need to create flies with a delicate profile. River insects ...