Fly fishing and more

*** The video is disabled by the owner of the video ( School of Trout ) but you can still view it by clicking  here  *** I wanted to add thi...

  Listen to this podcast about how Marcelo Pérez, founder of Untamed Angling , came up with the idea to strike a partnership with the indig...

 

Here's some insane spring creek fishing in a small spring fed stream deep in Patagonia. My friend Nick Reygaert , with whom I hosted fiv...

A rather unusual name for a salmon / steelhead fly tied by my friend Al Beatty . We go quite a long ways back together, as we met at the Dan...

Interesting new hackle from Harry Darbee lineage I’ve been told. Here some feathers have different shades on both halves. Experiment was ne...

Dave Whitlock passed away yesterday Nov 24, 2022 at the age of 88 years. Goodbye Dave Update Sep 26, 2023: Here's an article about Dave...

Tying a few flies during the weekend keeps the doctor away! 💊💉 The original Adams created in 1922 by Len Halladay for his friend Charles ...

This year marks the 30 year anniversary of the movie based on Norman MacLean 's novella ' A River Runs Through It '. This movie...

It's a wet Sunday... From Dave Whitlock 's book 'Guide to aquatic foods'

I decided cut this part from the previous post to make a separate post about the vertical casting stroke, as it really is what every fly fi...

The majority of the people I see casting are holding their upper arm raised slightly up with the lower arm canting away from the body :  sid...

To finish off the weekend a fly with body made of a mix of fox fur and tobacco color dyed seal's fur. The badger hackle with the dark ce...

It was already almost a year ago the DAAFT, a re-grouped bunch of tiers with many with the original DAAFT history, to enjoy a day of tying ...

Here's my buddy Andreas Andersson 's signature fly called the Sid

So these 'food' and beauty & health (🤣) companies are making a mess with plastic waste (packaging). I was wondering how our fly...

As 'small' a country South Africa is in fly fishing, and there aren't many fly fishers around in South Africa I've been told...

Small streams are so much fun, I love them myself. Here's a great video of the Jensens fishing a no name stream in Chile. Probably the ...

The Conover , a favourite Catskill dry fly of the Dettes. I used a mix of muskrat dubbing and dyed red seal's fur for the body. The hac...

Stamp of approval! 🎓 Thanks Mike!

I have been looking for the right shiny blue material to use for the Blue bottle Humpy . I looked at dubbing (like ice dubbing alike) and t...

Visited this famous fly shop in Paris back in 2019. This historic fly shop opened its doors in 1934, which was visited by Charles Ritz and H...