"Hairs and pelts - restoring deer curved hair fibers" is a short article and useful for every tier who wants to learn some tricks. Just a few words about this material: Is well known that deer hair like elk hair is widely used in fly tying. Deer hair (especially the Winter deer hair) is used for tying ...
New perdigon nymphs in Troutline collection
Troutline have a series of new perdigon nymphs developed for Summer fishing and Autumn fishing. All these flies where tested on our home waters but also in Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria and Italy. Our testers is composed by our our TroutLine Pro Team and fishermen that we known from different countries. After 2 season of fishing ...
Tying with Peacock Quills
Tying with peacock quills is an article dedicated especially to beginners to have a better image about this material widely used. Will help you to choose better the peacock quill depending of what flies do you want to make. For Example for dry flies and buzzers is used a type of peacock quill for ribbing bodies ...
Fishing Flies photographed underwater
A short compilation of photos with flies and material that I took underwater.
Catgut Biothread Pupa for trout and grayling
Catgut Biothread Pupa is one of the best fly when caddis flies are hatching. It is very easy and fun to make it, no need special skills and any beginner tier can tie this fly in 5-8min. Caddis nymphs and pupa should be all the time in fisherman boxes. These flies are very efficient ...
UV Ribbing tinsel for perdigon flies
We had new type or pearly-uv ribbing tinsel for perdigon flies. It has 0.2mm wide, it comes in very nice colors especially those used by modern fly fisherman for creating particular nymphs. These nymphs considered by some tiers, the new wave, are full of colors and a lot of synthetic materials are used. These pearly ...
Hot Spots – UV Ribbing fibers
There is a lot of info regarding hot spots and the effect of these in fly tying and fly fishing. A hot spot works like a trigger, in the same way like hot colors used in lure fishing and spoon fishing. The first colors used where orange, red, chartreuse and fluo yellow. The Czech fisherman ...
Catskill Red Quill
For those guys who don't know so much about Catskill flies the Catskill dry flies are developed in north of New York on the river with the same name. The particularity of these flies are in how they are build. The body is slim and delicate, the tail is sparse and ...
CDC Dry Fly – easy to tie
A Dry Fly tied with the body made of CDC is a difficult fly to tie based on some tiers. I asked why and a lot of them told me that the body made of CDC seems to be very bulky in the end. Is not difficult in my opinion, you ...
Spider Effect – or how to tie better your nymphs
You know that a lot of wet flies and spiders with bodies made of thread and thorax of dubbing behind hackle perform fantastic in water. The fly pulse and work very well, better than one without that thorax. A lot of peoples don't understand why and don't bother. Always I try to understand why things ...