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WOW!!! Thats alot of

WOW!!! Thats alot of Teeth in one fish!! Thanks for the heads up mate really aprreciate it!

Jan-Ole,

what an

Jan-Ole,

what an excellent series of articles.

Kasper

14' #8-10

Jonathan,

A 15' 10-11 weight rod is somewhat a telephone pole in my eyes. I don't know Drammenselven at all and don't know what your are facing with regards to waterflows, depths, clarity and fly sizes, but a large rod like you mention would usually be suitable for large and heavy flies in large and rough waters.

Personally I would go lighter for my first two handed rod. My preferred twohander is a 14' 9-10 weight and a 12½' for an 8-9 weight but I know people who use even lighter.

A medium light 14' rod will cover a lot of water and carry even larger flies (apart from the really heavy brass tubes on sinking lines), and still be delicate enough to present a fly without spooking a whole pool.

Not that my experience with salmon fly fishing is vast, but still...

Martin

Thank you for these

Thank you for these beautiful imagnes of the south of Chile.
Fly Fishing LA VAGUADA - CHILE

The most beautifu

The most beautiful trout painting that i have ever seen.

What a beautiful fis

What a beautiful fish. The red dots, the white-lined fins. What a pleasure it must have been...

Martin, be happy wit

Martin, be happy with your useful dog. My own dog is styled in a light brown colour, handsome when tying saltwater and all kind of trout and salmonflies .

Beautiful picture bu

Beautiful picture but the name of the Lake is NOT Jurassic Lake. The real name of the lake is STROBEL.

Where can a person g

Where can a person get a visual chart of the different hooks made by the different manufactures ?
Something that shows the type, bend style of the hook and the different sizes it comes in?

May that one be the

May that one be the first and smallest of many big ones to come...

Garret ;

I am ver

Garret ;

I am very interested in your Monkey Brain pattern i read in the Orvis News. Can you give me your tying instructions?

Thank you

David Butler

Excellente article a

Excellente article and very nice patterns. I live in Patagonia (Argentina) and I am a Fly Fishing Guide. I am another "Soft Hackle Addict" and always recommend to my clients, to fish with a Soft Hackle.
I had been reading the books of James Leisering and Sylvester Nemes; both books are, actually, wonderfull.
Thanks much,
Pablo

Hi Martin

The lon

Hi Martin

The longest WF5 cast was 36.1 meters = 118 feet at the recently held Danish Fly Casting Championship competition.
With the 10.5 meter 18 grams shooting head (a polular choice among Danish SW fly fishers), the longest cast was 40.2 meters = 132 feet.

Great podcast, thanks!

Good podcast. I have

Good podcast. I have also enjoyed the "cowy" parts :). Once again, I missed the championship and the field-ship :(

Excellently tied tro

Excellently tied trout flies on this page. Very good photographs.
I have an old 'John Veniard' book which has some of these flies in, they are tied with the same materials here, apart from the 'Catskill', Veniard uses Brown Mallard shoulder feather for the wings and tail.. There are other dressings like Adirondack, Cupsuptic, Potomac, Rio Grande King, Utah, Ray Bergman and Montreal Silver in the book too.

Originally called th

Originally called the Forked Tail Nymph and originated by Don & Dick Olson of Bemidji, MN - later was popularized by Doug Prince of Monterrey, CA .

Actually, Doug Princ

Actually, Doug Prince of California invented the Prince nymph.

Picture and Text tel

Picture and Text tell a story... I like it!

Hi Martin, big coinc

Hi Martin, big coincidence. Some month ago, I published a tying article about of "Sunray Shadow". Look: www.riosysenderos.com/baul/sunrayshadow.htm (link is dead)

Excelent fly to Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego.

Regards,
Carlos

Bob, The new tube

Bob,

The new tube fly book is awesome! Very inspiring. I have spent the last few days reading through it and will fire off a review ASAP. A few other books are in the queue before yours, but it will come eventually.

Martin

So now you can see w

So now you can see what took us so long, I hope you are as pleased as we are with the final result

Ray, The cutthroa

Ray,

The cutthroat image was taken with a Nikon D70 digital SLR.

Martin

Martin was the same

Martin was the same camera used to take the picture of the searun cutthroat in 2004?

Martin, thanks for t

Martin, thanks for the quick response. I was actually wondering about the camera used to take the picture of the searun cutthroat from 2004, sorry thought the comments were picture specific.