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Whisky,
wings and wedding dresses
In this article, I want to
tell you about how I started to work with organza, and found
some nice tricks to handle it. I think organza is a
wonderful material, and because I use it in a unique way,
I'm sure that I can give you some valuable tips. By Hans van
Klinken.
(2016-04-20)
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Rune's
Dragonfly
This is one of my
favorite patterns for early season fishing in the lakes
where i live. By Rune Andre Stokkebekk 2009. (2015-08-26)
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Alien Bug
During the warm
August and September months hoppers are big part of the
trout's diet in the Rocky Mountain area of the United
States. Fishing with hoppers can be really exciting. By Jay
Lee (2015-08-12)
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Rusty Rat
(Variant)
Scott Howell had a talent for taking old patterns and
reworking them with new materials so that they become a
better fly, and he have shown his usual mastery with this
fly. (2015-07-10)
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Avalon
Permit Fly
My first saltwater grand slam - a permit, tarpon, and
bonefish in a single day - while fishing in Cuba, thanks in
large part to a new permit fly. By Hans van Klinken
(2015-03-17)
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Tips for
selecting deer hair
Choosing the right hair will make your deer hair flies -
Comparaduns, EHCīs, Muddlers, bass bugs - much easier to
tie.
By Chris Helm
(2015-02-21)
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Peacock Stonefly
This black adult generic Stonefly works well because its
built with iridescent Peacock Herl By Dan Fallon (2014-06-26)
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Mouse
Magic
Article on effective salmon and rainbow fly pattern. By Dan
Fallon (2014-05-04)
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Damsel Fly Nymph
The Damsel Fly Nymph can be
an important pattern for spring fishing. A couple of times
during our traditional trout fishing trip the fish have been very
selective and have keyed in on these nymphs. Any larger nymph would do
OK, but an exact imitation can't hurt (and in any case; it's good for
your self-confidence). By Mikael Båth, 1998 (2014-01-03)
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The
Royster Doyster
Is somewhat a little tribute to my dear friend Roy Christie. By Niklas Dahlin
(2014-02-14)
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Grey Fox Variant
Here we will learn a little of one of my personal favorites,
the Grey Fox variant. The pattern was created by Catskill
celebrity Art Flick. The fly was of what I heard one of the
flies Flick had closest to his heart. By Niklas Dahlin
(2013-12-26)
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Telemarkskongen - "The King of Telemark"
Norwegian fly, which are many flyfisher’s favourite as a
classic wet fly for Grayling, Trout and Char. Presented by
Erling Olsen (2013-09-30)
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Sømme-puppa (Soemme-pupae)
Sømme-puppa is an imitation of a swimming caddis pupa. We
had great success with this fly during a caddis hatch where
different flies were refused.
By Pål Krogvold (2013-09-08)
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The Great Lakes Irish Invaders
Irish shrimp flies tend to be
very different than what we normally see in North America,
however they are popular with West Coast Steelhead fishers.
The fly construction generally follows a long held Irish
tradition of construction. By Bob Kenly 2010. (2013-09-06)
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The Adams
Judge Charles F. Adams asked his friend Halladay to create a fly that
would imitate the insect the discriminating trout were favoring that
day. Leonard Halladay and Charles Adams used The Adams with great
success on their beloved Boardman River, Michigan. By Niklas Dahlin 2009
(2013-08-31)
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Glitter for pike
Pike bites not only in fat wobblers. They are also interested in larger
model flies. Why not try a fly made of sparkly glitter instead for a
change and take your pike fishing to new heights. By Anders Isberg,
(2013-06-18)
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Knekestorparen
Most good flies are also simple flies, and Knekestorparen is
really a very simple fly - but also a fly with real great qualities when
it comes to attracting surface feeding fish. By Gunnar Johnson
1982
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Hanger pupae
This fly I tied for attracting fish when eating pupae and other insects
just below the surface and you want to know that the fly floats at the
right depth. The length of nylon cord can be advantageously varied so
that the flies may float at different depths. By Niklas Andersson
(2013-01-30)
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Stonefly nymph,
type heavy
The fly is supposed to be effective for fishing in Baltak and
other streaming waters, so why hesitate. Easy to tie and a real
treat for the fish. By Johan Sjunnestad
(2013-01-17)
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Twisted Palmer
Fly designed for fishing fast
flowing waters. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-12-27)
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Coloring Raw Tubes
A look into some alternative
methods of coloring tubes. By Bob Kenly (2012-12-10)
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Powder paint your
tubes and bead heads
Tube tyers are opening up their
eyes to the possibilities of adding an extra kick to their favourite
patterns. As fishermen, we all know that colour definitely makes a
difference. Powder Paints gives you the freedom to colour your favourite
metal tubes or bead heads. By Stuart Anderson (2012-12-11)
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Snowshoe
Sparkle Dun
Using hair from
Snowshoe hare feet are popularity among tiers. The dense, curly
underfur holds a lot of air bubbles. It is easily compressed, so
it is tied in without too much bulk. The hair is very
hydrophobic and buoyant. By Martin Westbeek
(2012-11-07)
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Twisted hackle
This artificial fly, how to create an extended body by
twisting an entire hackle CDC. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-10-11)
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Upset hackle
This artificial fly, built on small hooks is very good for
trout and grayling. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-09-02)
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The Modular
Tube Fly - Part 2
Will cover adding and
removing weight to your flies. This is one of my favorite options in the
Modular Tube Fly System and is definitely one of the most valuable as
well. By Benson Adams
(2012-09-02)
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The Modular
Tube Fly - Part 1
One of the biggest upsides to tying
on tubes, whether they be metal or plastic, is that they are highly
modular with multiple options that can be swapped in and out. By Benson
Adams
(2012-07-16)
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Loop body
Experimenting with new
ways to construct the extended body. By Agostino Roncallo
2012-07-01
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Tube Fly Vise - The Basics
One of the first steps
to tying a tube fly would be to purchase or create a tube
fly vise. You can accomplish this in many ways. The simplest
method, and the most inexpensive is to purchase a few
different sizes of blind eye hooks. By Benson Adams
2012-06-15
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Tube body &
Split hackles
Improvement of earlier
described assembly that allows you to create wings formed by barbs of a
cock's hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-05-31)
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Caseless Caddis (Ryacophila)
Trout really love them.
On a season-long base, caddis larva's are arguably the most
prolific trout food and we are crazy not to use them. A
caddis larva imitation should be in our fly boxes at all
times. By Hans van Klinken
(2012-05-12)
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The Green Glomma Duns
The winter of 1989/1990 was
reserved for attempting to tie several flies, which looked almost
exactly like the actual insects. My priority was to create some good
looking and effective Mayfly patterns. By Hans van Klinken
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Tiny BWO
Various emerger patterns are quite
successful, usually tied with CDC wings. This time I would like to show
the one that was the most successful for me, which I call Tiny BWO,
because it works best when tied on small hooks. By Goran Grubic
(2012-04-06)
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Chest & CDC wing
One of the simplest and
most effective ways to mount the Cul de Canard is the system
that were built in the traditional Moustique Swiss Jura; fix the
hackle of CDC on the shank of the hook and wraps around it like
a cock's hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2012-01-15)
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CDC an MP tying material
- Bring only one tying material with you. The one and only
material - after my firm opinion - appropriate for taking up
this challenge would be CDC. Article by Leon Links
(2011-12-03)
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Midges
by Agostino Roncallo
(2011-12-03)
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CDC Ant
In the book, "Magie in CDC", I proposed an ant that is built
using one CDC hackle. A fly is effective, especially for fishing
grayling. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-10-30)
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Cul De Canard
against all rules (part one)
The Culard.
CDC has been used by a small number
of anglers in the Swiss Jura for about a century. By Hans van Klinken
(2011-10-06)
Cul De Canard
against all rules (part two)
Once and Away
One of my best and most beautiful
emerging patterns I ever made and is especially designed to be almost
unsinkable.
By Hans van Klinken
(2011-10-06) |
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Junction Tubes,
A New Approach
Tube flies have exploded in
popularity in the past decade, and with that explosion new
approaches and techniques to fish them have grown exponentially.
Junction tubes (also known as hook sleeves) are an important
part of the whole tube fly package. By Stuart Anderson (2011-09-20) |
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Palomino
Fly tying: Easy way to get a detached body. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-06-11) |
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Footprint Fly
Style - Ephemeroptera
(RWU Dun - Right Way Up Hook Dun) By L. T. Threadgold
(2011-05-31) |
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Deer hair
ant
I was "forced" to devise a my own procedure to create a imitation, and after several trials, I
came up with the following method. By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-05-02) |
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Refracta Fly
To get the support collar of a passing imitation used two
rooster hackles, one with long and elastic beards and another
shorter and more rigid.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-04-01) |
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Calf Tail
When darkness falls, I do not want
to stop fishing. The calf's tail dyed yellow gives me great visibility,
so my flies for the Coup de soir have wings in this type of hair.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-03-08) Both in English and
Italian. |
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Tube body & parachute
Building the tube bodies with use of common silicone
colorless sealant.
By Agostino Roncallo
(2011-02-06) Both in English and
Italian. |
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R Nimph
In my opinion, the
model of a fly must to be born from a simple idea and should be easy
to achieve. By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-12-26) |
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Hook Bent
How to create a fly that sits correct on the water
surface. Fly tying article by Agostino Roncallo.
(2010-11-20) |
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Roncallo Special
This is one of the first artificial
flies that I dressed with CDC. Arose from a modification that I made
of John Goddard's and Brian Clarke's "Suspender Nymph". By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-10-19) |
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Synthetic raffia
New and cheap substitute for
raffia, a syntetic material presented by Agostino Roncallo
(2010-09-07) |
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Gold Balls &
Silver Bullets
Beadheads are very effective
patterns for any other watercourse. Their value has been noticed by
a growing number of fly fishers, and they are accounting for some
good fish, whether in running or still water. By Hans van Klinken.
2010-09-07 |
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The Blair Mouse Project
I laughed when I read the pattern's
name, "The Blair Mouse Project", probably named somewhat after a
cult film I absolutely hated and didn't have a clue what all the
talk was about. Article by Bob Kenly |
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Gripper Pad
part two
Sometimes
it happens that I find new materials that can be used for building
artificial flies. I have found one of a real interest. By Agostino Roncallo.
2010-06-01 |
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Tying
The Steelhead Caddis
Using something a little out of the
ordinary might just be what the fish were looking for. By Jason Akl
(2010-05-15) |
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Gripper Pad
Sometimes
it happens that I find new materials that can be used for building
artificial flies. I have found one of a real interest. By Agostino Roncallo.
2010-05-01 |
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The X foam
New technique for tying hackle on dry
flies, using x-foam, by Agostino Roncallo. 2010-04-02 |
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Mirage
For
many years this fly pattern was the secret weapon that I used for
capture graylings and trout, particularly difficult ones. By Agostino
Roncallo (2010-03-01) |
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HPU Brite-Eyed Emerald
Shiner
The Emerald Shiner is now the most abundant minnow in the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers. By Fox Statler. (2010-02-23) |
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My Parachute
Helpful method for tying parachute hackle. By Agostino Roncallo
(2010-02-15) |
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The
Yallerhammer, a truly American Fly
It is generally accepted that it
was the Cherokees who first brought down a Yellow-shafted Flicker
with a blowgun, wrapped its bright quill around a hook, and caught a
trout. Maybe the Cherokee indians tied
this fly as they tied the deer hair fly, reverse Palmer style. Article
by Bruce E. Harang
(2010-02-06) |
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The Remerger
Unweighted nymphs, flymphs and emergers, but because I think that
this pattern has all these properties built into it, I gave this fly
the striking name. By Hans van Klinken
(2009-11-15) |
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Angle flies,
method to tie dry flies, by Geir Kjensmo (2009-07-25) |
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HPU Patterns
All Hook-Point-Up (HPU)
patterns have three components. First, lead or brass eyes placed
below the hook-eye. Second, some sort of tying material such as deer
hair, feathers, fur, or hanked material tied in above the hook-eye.
Third, a sturdy and often large streamer hook. By Fox Statler
2008-01-26 |
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Linda's Shrimp, Shrimp fly tying article, fly pattern,
by Bob Kenly (2007-06-22) |
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| Ants,
Fly tying article by By Gianluca Nocentini
(2007-03-18) |
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| The Boss,
a simple salmon/steelhead fly pattern, known to everyone who fishes
Alaska, The Boss, an all purpose fly.
By Bob Kenly 2007-02-25 |
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Coloured
tubes. Perspectives.
Using colored plastic tubed for salmon tube flies. Also abaout
using Serebrjanka dubbing. Fly tying article by Jurij Shumakov (2006-06-06)
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Little
Witchy
Flytying article.
Trolling flies like the Witchy are made to play into the voracious
feeding behavior of large predatory fish, or more simply put just
attract as much attention as possible in hopes that a lunker will
take a quick swipe at the fly. By Jason Akl (2006-03-01
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Why
wax?
A
properly waxed thread is both rouge and adheres more readily to your
materials. This enables you to tie stronger flies with fewer thread
winds resulting in a neater and more attractive fly. By Anders Isberg (2005-12-10)
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The
Turbo Shrimp,
From Russia To Alaska, Spinner fly article by Bob Kenly (2005-10-15)
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| The
Scurr
(Heptagenid / Stoneclinger) lifelike fly tying by James Matthews
(2005-05-20)
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| The
Cascade Prawn - A study in Fly Tying -
"base coating" and "color layering" Also
presenting steelhed flies by
Jack Cook (2005-05-08)
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Big
Eye Spoon Fly
Fly tying
article, about fly that imitate crabs or injured bait fish. Fly
developed for fishing Redfish but is probably also good for Sea-trout,
Snook, Striped Bass, Bluefish, and Mackerel. By Jason Akl (2005-02-26) |
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Spinner’d
Minners
Fly tying arcticle by Fox Statler. Tying a very special fly with
spinning spoon.
(2005-02-12) |
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Breathing Dragon
Fly tying
article, about Dragon flies. By Jason Akl
(2005-02-02) |
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Hackling CDC
Fly tying article, describing "Light greenish CDC Dun", by
Leon Links (2005-01-28) |
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Matthews' Peccadillo
Fly tying article on great grayling fly, imitating caddi larvae, hydropsyche. By James Matthews (2004-12-14) |
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| My preferred flies,
three flies, tying descriptions; Olive Biot
Dun, P.A. Emerging, Emergent Hare's Ear. By Gianluca Nocetini. (2004-05-04) |
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| PT Stone
stone
fly imitation, fly tying article by Jason Akl (2004-03-28) |
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| Hot Spot Caddis
bead head
flies to imitate caddis flies at larval stage, fly tying article by Jason
Akl (2004-03-14) |
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| Super Bunny
rabbit fur
streamer, fly tying article by Jason Akl
(2004-02-28) |
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| Flopper
(the fallen
hopper) fly tying article by Jason Akl
(2004-02-14) |
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| Fox's Mudbugs, article with several fly patterns of the same
serie, by Fox Statler (2004-01-31) |
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| The Oligochaete
Worm, Could every "San Juan
Worm" that has ever been tied be wrong? By Fox Statler. (2003-12-21) |
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| Madam X
Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-10-12) |
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| Swinger
Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-09-27) |
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| Rabid Prince
Fly tying article and tying pattern by Jason Akl. (2003-09-16) |
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| Happy mistake, article on Interchangeable tube fly bodies by
Jurij Shumakov (2003-01-26) |
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| Leeches, ...disgusting according to us, but the rainbow
thinks different. By Gunnar Johnson (2001-11-16) |
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| Foam no.5, by Niclas Andersson. A different mayfly where the shape, silhouette and
impression is the most important. (Published 2001-06-12) |
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| "True
Man" hook, A presentation of
the "True Man" hook, for balancing and improving tube flies. By Jurij Shumakov.
(Published 2000-05-27) |
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| Streaking Caddis
A presentation of the famous Swedish dry fly that
imitates caddis. By Lennart Bergqvist and Kenneth Boström (1998-07-29) 136 kb. |
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| In the spell of
the Rackehanen, Rackelhanen,
Thank you! Hans van Klinken tell us a story of his first meeting with the fly Rackelhanen.
(Published 980103) |
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