Fly fishing and more

Here's another golden oldie DVD by Confluence films that can be enjoyed for free!

Observing in a small spring creek in Spanish Pyrenees

Not the most obvious place to go fishing but after watching it certainly one of the most special. The scenery of the lower Himalayas, the hi...

A little gig I did with one of the Norwegian fly tier, Jan Håvard Krohn , at the recent Nordic Fly Fair was to collaborate in tying a coupl...

Here's a nice video which takes you through the  Catskill Fly Fishing Center & Museum in Livingston Manor. Hope to visit it one day...

I bought a fair amount of DVDs back in the years. My favorite ones were videos that had various types of fisheries or destinations that were...

Wow, the fourth (previous shows in 2018 , 2022 & 2023 ) time attending the Nordic Fly Fair in Elverum, Norway. This fly fishing show fe...

Tom passed away April 8, 2024 so I moved the original posted on June 18, 2020 forward. Tom Sutcliffe is certainly the grandfather of South A...

Found this green kapok dubbing in my tying bag. The body looks like the green paint on the TV series The Hulk 😂

Elk hair Green Drake dun and spinner (aka Coffin Fly). The idea of this design is to make a large profile fly with less bulk. Using a 1x (or...

Corey Ford - a fly Walt Dette named in honor of writer Corey Ford. These days a rounded rooster hackle tip is next to impossible to find. Th...

The delightful documentary ' Land of Little Rivers ', originally only available on DVD, can be watched on Youtube for free now! Not ...

March is almost gone already! Saying goodbye with a March Brown

The hackle is a dark dun with a slight brown-ish sheen over it. Really buggy looking hackle. The body is muskrat with a few straggles of cla...

 

A fly that was deeply inspired by a color pencil drawing by an artist called Kate Hall . Kate also came up with the name for this fly, The R...

Another Lady Beaverkill

Tied a Ginger Quill after seeing my friend Eric Austin post a new video on tying the Ginger Quill. Here is the video of Eric tying a Ginger...

The last of the two founders of the Thomas & Thomas rod company passed away yesterday. Here are the posts I wrote about Tom Dorsey alon...