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Hackle pliers

If I think about how many pliers I've bought that are non satisfying the C&F one is the cheapest at all. Wolfgang

Fly tyers from Spain?

Are there any fly tyers from Spain on this site?

URL for Clint Brumitt's tip to use any size hackle

I found this to be one of the best tying tips I have ever seen...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31DWumnrPIs

Don't copy, link

Gary,

We prefer not to see copies of our articles to other places on the web - web sites, Facebook, blogs or other sites. For translation to other languages it's OK, but a 1:1 copy makes no sense.
You are welcome to link to our articles from Facebook or any other place, and also reproduce them in club newsletters or magazines as long as they are non-commercial. But please don't copy text and images for web use.

Martin

Use of your articles

Hi I am the secretary of a small angling club in Scotland and I would like to have your permission to copy some of your articles on to our FB page to help our juniors and members?
I would gladly mention where the article has came from
Thank you
Gary

I agree with John

I agree with John. Old school. McDonalds used a mix of more than 90% beef tallow for thier friers. Its cery versatile stuff. From cooking to airplane fuel. Flux for soldering to leather conditioning... soaps and it was even used a gun lube in the Civil War. I used it for restoring leather jackets and baseball gloves. Never on a fly line. Im still new to fly fishing. Im probably going to swing by a sports shop and grab a tube of tallow based conditioner. It works on synthetic gloves and is safe for plastics as most gloves has a polymer logo sewn to it.

Nope.. the hook side of course

Mac,

If I have written that, I've had butter fingers or my brain somewhere else. My bad. You want the hook side of things of course! The hooks are the grips and the loops are the soft, more fabric like side that they grip into. I will fix that immediately.

Martin

Velcro side

"You want the loop side of things." Are you sure?

Not stupid at all

Mike,

Your questions are not stupid at all. It's my experience - from myself and others - that leaders and tippets are complex and quite intimidating and can be difficult to understand and master.

1) Sealing the knots in some way makes very good sense. I know the problem with the knots picking up weed. I don't know whether the UV glues would work, but they probably would. Loon has its UV Knot Sense, which I personally use for flies, but judging from its name, it should work well for knots.

2) I usually tie my leaders with the intent of adding a tippet to the last piece of the leader. I then work my way into the tippet as I change flies, and finally cut off the last bit and tie on a new one. This slowly eats into the leader itself, but it takes quite some time before the leader is "worn down". I can always replace the last bit of the leader before I tie on the new piece of tippet. The tippet ring will enable you to almost endlessly replace the tippet without eating into the leader itself. I have actually bought a handful of rings that I want to use on my leaders for the exact same reason.

Martin

Jungle Angler video

Awesome film and awesome fish! Great job!

super glue versus uv glue for this pattern.

would superglue in the gel form be a decent substitute for the uv glue, its a little pricey for me.

vises

Like you, I started with a cheap fly tying kit in 1967, about $10.00 for materials & Vise, then a Thompson A vise, then a marvelous vise called the Price Vise which I still have with the extension arm & Light, and my present vise, a Renzetti 4000, which is my daily go to. Every once in a while, for nostalga, i will use the Price Vise.Tried a friends Regal once & hated it, bulky, clumsy, no Hutzpah!

dahlberg flashtail

Thanks for posting, I'll be able to give it a go now that I've seen how its done. Definitely bookmarked for later. Greetings from Australia

Regal pics

James,

Thanks for your kind offer! It would make good sense to have images, but I'm honestly kind of tempted to leave the post as it is and let no Regal be shown. If they don't want images, they don't get images...

Martin

Gurgler targets

Valentin,

The Gurgler will definitely work for browns and rainbows under the right conditions when the fish are aggressively chasing high in the water - or if you target fish eating frogs, mice or similar large animals.
Catfish is a different game. Catfish are bottom fish, and a Gurgler is in the surface. It might lure the fish up, but I would guess not. I have to say, though, that my catfish experiences are zero, so I can't be sure.

Martin

Gurgler #6

Will it work on rainbow, brown trout? Or catfish perhaps?

I have coverage of most of

I have coverage of most of the Regal range if you want me to take some pictures and email them through. Its a shame you were made to bring down the images...

Regal Vice

If you have Art Flick's "Streamside Guide..." you'll see that the Regal is a copy of his original design. I was quite upset when Regal claimed the design as their own.

Great tie.

Great Iso pattern, you need a manicure Jim, aside from the nibbled digits a very simple yet deadly effective fly in spring and again in Sept/Oct here in my great home state of Maine.

The J Vice

Maybe you should look at the South African J Vice too!

Regal Vise

I think that the regal became popular back when there were few other options for a high quality vise. Other people bought them after being recommend by friends. I have owned a Dyna King Barracuda for 5 years now and I'm in love.Much better than my old Renzetti.

Flyfishing southland New Zealand.

Hello Henk. I was born in Workum 1950 then migrated to australia 1952. Have been brought up
in a hunting /fishing environment. Brought a cottage in NZ and accomodate keen fishermen there. Will be in Amsterdam and Friesland 12th October to 12th November this year. Have some great trout fishing footage from a go pro that you would undoubtedly find interesting. Feel free to connect. Cheers John

regal vice

i tried to use a regal vice once. it took me both hands to open the jaws, leaving me no way to mount the hook. back to renzetti for this t

Your B.I.Law Peter

Hello there....about the arthritis thing...I know it was an old post..but I just found you guys!! I had arthritis in both basal joints of my thumbs...since fixed with fusion surgeries...but...it was very difficult for me to do many things...tying one of them...I tried to MacGyver all of my tools so the handles were all oversized...Making it more comfortable to hold...they look odd...but if it works for him....awesome. prayers for relief and healing....Tom