A short compilation of photos with flies and material that I took underwater.
About: Lucian Vasies
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Catgut Biothread Pupa for trout and grayling
Catgut Biothread Pupa is one of the best fly when caddis flies are hatching. It is very easy and fun to make it, no need special skills and any beginner tier can tie this fly in 5-8min. Caddis nymphs and pupa should be all the time in fisherman boxes. These flies are very efficient ...
UV Ribbing tinsel for perdigon flies
We had new type or pearly-uv ribbing tinsel for perdigon flies. It has 0.2mm wide, it comes in very nice colors especially those used by modern fly fisherman for creating particular nymphs. These nymphs considered by some tiers, the new wave, are full of colors and a lot of synthetic materials are used. These pearly ...
Hot Spots – UV Ribbing fibers
There is a lot of info regarding hot spots and the effect of these in fly tying and fly fishing. A hot spot works like a trigger, in the same way like hot colors used in lure fishing and spoon fishing. The first colors used where orange, red, chartreuse and fluo yellow. The Czech fisherman ...
Catskill Red Quill
For those guys who don't know so much about Catskill flies the Catskill dry flies are developed in north of New York on the river with the same name. The particularity of these flies are in how they are build. The body is slim and delicate, the tail is sparse and ...
CDC Dry Fly – easy to tie
A Dry Fly tied with the body made of CDC is a difficult fly to tie based on some tiers. I asked why and a lot of them told me that the body made of CDC seems to be very bulky in the end. Is not difficult in my opinion, you ...
Spider Effect – or how to tie better your nymphs
You know that a lot of wet flies and spiders with bodies made of thread and thorax of dubbing behind hackle perform fantastic in water. The fly pulse and work very well, better than one without that thorax. A lot of peoples don't understand why and don't bother. Always I try to understand why things ...
Alternative – Perdigon Nymph without UV Resin!
Perdigon nymphs started to be more and more popular and lot of medium and advance fly fishermen use them (on light nymphing, long nymphing and French nymphing techniques). The beginners use these nymphs with Czech nymphing style - more easy technique. Unfortunately more and more tiers claimed skin allergies at UV ...
Any fisherman should not miss Perdigon Nymphs
In my opinion any fisherman should not miss perdigon nymphs. These small and delicate nymphs were invented by Spanish fisherman competitors and are used for aprox 6 years now on.. Every fly fisherman should have at least 10-20perdigon nymphs and I explain why! These nymphs were developed by guys who fish in very difficult rivers where ...
Tying a Caddis with Catgut
Tying a Caddis with Catgut is simple. Only a few tricks should be known: 1. take in consideration that the catgut materials is translucent an the color of the fly will be different when gets wet. 2. catgut is stiff when is dry so keep it in warm water for a few min ( 3-5min ) in ...
