Fly fishing and more

The ingredients: Vintage Mustad 94842 size 12 Double slip mallard wings Pink floss body Silver tinsel Hebert Miner Medium Ginger cape ...

Tied another Catskill dry fly this evening, the March Brown. I used a vintage Mustad 94842 hook this time. The hook shank is maybe slightly ...

The ingredients: Vintage Mustad 94842 size 12 Vintage Harry Darbee grizzly hen hackle tips for the wings Hebert Miner Cree cape Veevus...

Many of the issues I see happening in fly fishing are described here . Time to look in the mirror... I posted a similar post back in 201...

A fine full dressed salmon fly is a work of art, but is also looked at with fear. Here's a tutorial how to tie a Silver Doctor that tak...

I reviewed the DVD Trout Grass back in 2005. It has become the documentary about the journey Tonkin bamboo making ...

One of the big influencers (this word wasn't around back then yet...) that triggered my interest in tying with deer hair is Jimmy Nix....

Thanks Joe! Read here for more about my friendship with Joe Messinger Jr.

My Q&A's started as an idea to interview some of the memorable people I've met in fly fishing, both online as well as offline. R...

Here's another rodent on its way to Texas

Two original letters written by Charles F. Orvis , the founder of Orvis , that was purchased at a Florida Antique Tackle Collectors Show in ...

Recently my friend  George Minculete  sent me a newly built Epic 476 for a review. This rod is finished on the new generation Epic blanks,...

André Hesselroth is a Norwegian fly fisherman that took the plunge a few years ago. He decided that time is more valuable than anything el...

For the past 20 years or so, most of the time my focus on bamboo fly rods was on makers from the USA with a few exceptions from European m...

We like our herring here 😀 Just add onions... Thread: Danville Flat wax nylon color gray Wing: strands of white, light grey, dark gr...

After a long period away from my vise (vice?) I tied a deer hair mouse for someone special. It's always great fun tying with deer hair....