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Go to "Très Bien"

Très Bien

Bright: This is another bright tube fly for clear water designed by Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen. And another one that uses a cone to add weight to the front of the fly. And another one, where the metal cone can be replaced by a common head or a plastic cone.
You can see detailed step-by-step photos here.

Go to the article "The Dirty White"

The Dirty White

More tubes: We continue our series of tube flies tied in the Scandinavian style. This fly is another subdued yellow, white and gray fly, well suited for bright light and clear water. It uses a mallard hackle to create a nice, closed shape.
See a detailed pattern description here

Find "The Overtaker" here

The Overtaker

Taking over: A small black tube fly inspired by the classical Undertaker and flies like the Green Butt. This small fly shows that bube flies do not have to be large. It's petite, it's black and it's sexy with a small hotspot.
And no, it's not a piece of lingerie

See "Bon Aventure flies - our suggestions" by clicking here

Bon Aventure flies

Our suggestions: Do you know what flies to tie for clear water and how to tie them? Follow the Danish flytier Ken Bonde Larsen carefully tie some attractive and yet not too visible flies for the Canadian salmon. Tubes are his favorite and some with new plastic discs.
Get your bobbin ready

Find "Chinese White" here

Chinese White

Tubed: A bright tube fly for salmon in clear water created by Danish Ken Bonde Larsen. Tied in the Scandinavian style with a large and soft hair wing made of several layers. Easy to tie and impressive both in and out of the water.
See pattern and pictures here.

"Staring Sunray Shadow" is found here

Staring Sunray Shadow

Here's looking at you kid: Ray Brook's classic the Sunray Shadow can hardly be outdone by any variation of this simple yet very efficient fly. But some people still like to add little details to killer patterns. This version of the Sunray has a body and eyes.
It can see where the fish are.

See "A Pheasant Under Glass" by clicking here

A Pheasant Under Glass

Tubed: Two seemingly unrelated events led tube fly tyer par excellence Bob Kenly to this method of tying and to discover a coloring system that I have never tried before: dyed Lady Amherst tail feathers and a note requesting something different to be thrown in the water for salmon in New Foundland.
Here the result of the two events.

Click to see "Niels flies"

Niels' flies

Classical: If you thought that silk lines, split cane rods and full dressed salmon flies was something people used a century ago, you may want to read this article about Niels Have who fishes his classical flies on a Phoenix silk line wound on a Hardy Perfect reel mounted on a Highlander two-hand split cane rod.
Read on here

Find "Jan's Emerger" on this page

Jan's Emerger

New Pattern: Another new pattern from Jan Grandal-Johansen, this time a buzzer emerger that fishes well on the reservoirs in the UK. Those hackle tip wings are just killer.
Click here to see more.

Read more on "Mart's Parachute Ant"

Mart's Parachute Ant

Terrestrial: During the warmer months of the year, they are just about anywhere... Ants. Martin Westbeek shows an easy way to tie a good ant imitation that will sit well on the surface and hopefully lure trout or grayling.
See his prescription here.

Jump to "The Pink Pig - Pattegrisen"

The Pink Pig - Pattegrisen

A tentacled all-rounder : You have probably heard about and maybe even watched The Pink Panther. If so, you also know the soundtrack. Put that on and take a look to see what a Pink Pig is, and if it has anything in common with the panther or if there is more Miss Piggy in this fly tied for tarpon, bonefish and trout.
To the tying table

Jump to "Salty dreams and glassy shrimp"

Salty dreams and glassy shrimp

Salt: Chris Edghill writes: "Fascinating to se how they worked together, one would dive in between the rocks and sea grass, completely burying itself and the others just milled around waiting for a shrimp to dart out from it’s hiding place where it would be quickly devoured."
This experience spawned his S.L.S. Shrimp

Go to Kai's Green Terror

Kai's Green Terror
If one day you should lie on the bank pounding your fists into the sand in frustration over the lack of fish and someone sneaks around the corner offering you a chartreuse coloured fly, perhaps it’s German Kai Nolting who brings you the fly that will save your day:

Go to Convertible tubes

Convertible tubes
Tube fly tyer Tony Pagliei explains his Convertible Tube Flies - a modular system that combines a set of tube tied front parts and a set of dressed hooks into as many different flies as you can imagine in a versatile, modular system.

Go to Jan's GP

Jan's GP
One day, while fishing my favourite water, Barnsfold in Lancashire, which is surrounded on one large side with a good head of pine trees round the reservoir, I noticed quite a few terrestrials being blown on to the water. The trout were going crazy for them.

Go to Dual Tube Phlyz

Dual Tube Phlyz
In an effort to entice larger striped muggers (stripers) during the spring herring run on Cape Cod when big fish venture back into the shallow estuaries to the herring runs, Pete Gray started tying 8-12+ inches herring flies on double tubes.

Go to Burning Man

Burning Man
This strange popper came out of Martin Joergensen's vice recently and has already proved its value several times. See why it might be interesting to you, how to tie it (in meticulous details) as well as how it moves - and in video too! And learn why it's called Burning Man.

Go to Sunray Shadow

Sunray Shadow
The Sunray Shadow is a true killer fly for salmon fishing. Tied on a tube with a wing and no body, simple as few flies, but still - or maybe rather because of that - extremely efficient. The fly uses few materials and is very easy to tie.

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Tie Better
·Good, Bad, and Ugly
·The Ugliest Flies
·The Mad Epoxy Tier
·Styles and Patterns
·Tube Tying Techniques
·Tube Tools
·Tube Ressources
·Tube Styles
·Tube Basics
·Understanding tube flies
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Fish Better
·Sharks!
·The bad beginning
·Tie your best strike indicators!
·Balance beam
·LeaderCalc2007
·Our first mullets
·Skunked
·Tigerfish from my Verandah
·Asp Parade
·Chuck and Duck
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Gallery
·Fishy art: Bob White
·The Visitors - Day 2
·The Visitors - Day 1
·Merry Christmas
·GFF Summit 2007
·Fishy art: Yoshikazu Fujioka
·Fishy art: Vaughn Cochran
·Fishy art: Chris Bladen
·Waiting for spring
·Fishy art: Ad Swier
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