Fly fishing and more

Tied the TMG (Teal, Macaw & Ginger , a Catskill style dry fly I came up earlier this year for the first time. This one is reinforced wit...

Al Troth’s Elk Hair Caddis from the book ‘ The Art of the Trout Fly ’ (Judith Dunham & Egmont van Dyck, 1988). This book showed me that ...

The hackle companies are strangely reluctant to provide some spare zip lock bags... André Frijlink of Frame Your Fly was kind enough to sen...

Sunday during the DAAFT meeting my friend Theo Bakelaar had some old Metz capes and saddles (‘commercial’ grade I think?) he wanted to get r...

It's a very wet weekend...

Trout Spey (or micro spey) is a type of fishery that has become more and more popular the past 5 years. It's basically a down sized doub...

A ‘Sunrise’ Quack I tied the other evening. I couldn’t figure out where I left the red floss 🤔 Leonard Quackenbush, a member of the Beaverk...

I have no idea why Kelly isn't asking money for this (long!) video, it's a true streamer fishing masterclass for free! Kelly Galloup...

Here's something that's new to me, a podcast talking about some weird hobby called fly fishing . Pete Tyjas runs a glossy quarterly ...

Some years ago I acquired 11 traditional Catskill dry flies tied by the Dettes (by Winnie and Mary I'm told by the original owner). Rece...

It has been a while I tied...

Rube Cross wrote the book ‘ Tying American Trout Lures ’ in 1936, later combined with his second book ‘ Fur, Feathers and Steel ’ published...

Illustrations of wildlife looks so amazing but what is even more amazing is the time that needs to be put into making it.

Patagonia as we know wasn't always a fly fisherman's paradise. Just like New Zealand , Patagonia had no native trout or salmon so th...

 This lime body Royal Humpy is waiting for the sign to travel to an artist to get a portrait painted. Recently someone asked about the Humpy...

This is a variation on the  Delaware Adams , the 'sunrise' Delaware Adams

" Irresistible ", that's what a client of Joe Messinger Sr. said about this fly after his successful fishing trip in Canada wh...

Along the years the hackle used for the popular Catskill dry fly called the Light Cahill went more cream coloured but I think it looks nice...