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very interested photo !!!

A trick you can use with thick stems is to mash them down with a pair of flat pliers. Going up and down the thick portion of the stem will break the inner part of the stem down and make it much more pliable. This will make a whole range of feathers easier to work with. Better and more available than goose shoulders are turkey flats. They are everywhere and when stripped, bleached, and mashed you get a very good hackle to wind.

Probably the oldest angling club in SA was the Rand Piscatorial Society which was formed in 1911.

Otherwise a very good article. I was fishing the fly for yellows ca 1970

Kasper,

Great!

rgds

Rolandas

Wow!!

Great Article and great Photos!

Congratulations Glenn...as always (Top Notch!)

Ann

If you write me a mail I'll explain how we get our bamboo to Europe

Hi Dances-With-Trout -

ummm...errr...yeah, it will work for bonefish! (wink, wink!) How about next August you and I fish some Mexico flats together, you with the Tabou Caddis, and me with a Crazy Charlie or something. Least fish buys :)

Hi Jan,
Greetings from BC Canada. Thank you for your thorough plans and detailed commentary on your fly tying bench. I've nearly completed my bench! I decided to make the melamine base nearly 36" wide, and will be lining the perimeter with brass corner moulding. Thank you for taking the time to post your plans. "Tight lines" -a-

I will be visiting the island of Oland this July and want to know where the closest place to catch sea trout will be. or if it even possible this time of the year.

I love your tying articles and sequencing the links in your enlarged photo steps is a great technique and very helpful. Thank you!
I've searched the internet for the rubber "turbo-style" cones without success. Can you suggest a source for them?

Hi Richard,

Glad your son got his first trout on the midge. Don't be scared to tie them larger and fish them during mayfly hatches. I recently caught some mullet using a white version of the pattern with the hivis post.

Regards,
Darryl

For tonkin sources try:
Andy Royer www dot bamboobroker dot com
Demarests www dot tonkincane dot com/
or go to www dot bamboorodmaking dot com
or join the bamboo rodmakers list smtp dot goldrush dot com/mailman/listinfo/rodmakers -
the rodmakers liusts has people on most copuntries and they will point you all in the direction of a source if Andy or Eileen can't help you
(if you're in the Us also try www dot goldenwitch dot com)

no financial interest etc etc

Harry,
Is there a tonkin supplier in Serbia or Bosnia?
Tnx

Being a fly fisher for over 40 yrs. I have loaned my copies [2] to new folks to the sport. With the understanding that I wont stand for soiled or dog eared books returned. good training for the care of their own library .

Is this a good fly for bonefish and tarpon?

Magnus,

True enough that Norling and Frödin are the fathers of this style, but honestly - Sweden or Scandinavia... to us (to you) it might be a big deal, but to the rest of the world we're just a bunch of countries in the northern end of Europe.

We at GFF usually refer to Scandinavia as a whole, Scandinavian coastal fishing (actually Danish), Scandinavian tube flies (actually Swedish), Scandinavian two hand casting (actually Swedish). We're an international site, and we don't care much about these borders, hope you don't mind.

Martin

Calling this style of pattern "Scandinavian" its like calling the seatrout fly Magnus "Scandinavian" and not Danish. This style was originated from Sweden, Håkan Norling and Mikael Frödin. It should be called the "Swedish" style.

Donald,

Check out Ole Willers' series Build a Rod. He has a whole article on placing guides and wrapping them.

Martin

Being newish to fishing ( age 60) I am looking for a chart that shows the hook and it's size, as I buy my tackle on line it is difficult to establish the actual size & style of hook I require for the type of fishing ie: beach, pier, boat. can anyone help?

I have a question, i've read your material on fly rod building, but i don't recall reading how you align the guides from the reel seat to the tip top, did i miss something?