Winged Nymphs for Dynamic Nymphing could be considered a new frontier in fishing nymphs and a new way to tie flies. Some fly tiers consider them ugly. In terms of a classic construction and after the traditional rules to tie a nymph, these flies are quite ugly. These flies don’t follow the rules for conical ...
My precious Nymph is very simple to tye and is a general searching model. "My Precious Nymph" is tied to imitate baetis nymphs, clinger nymphs, swimming and crawler nymphs, basically almost all delicate medium-small nymphs. Because is so simple and tied with only respecting basic elements and classic proportions, the nymphs is a ...
The second part about "How to make macro photos for your flies" is about lighting. Based on my experience in more then 10 years of making macro photos I can say that the rules are: 1. Direct light is not good 2. Diffused light is better than directed light 3. Reflected light is better than ...
I decided to start this tutorial about "how to make macro photos for your flies" because I receive almost every week questions on forums or via email about how I make my photos and what cams I use. Some considered that the success of my photos or the good quality is due to my cameras but ...
Big fish eat big flies and I don't have any doubt about this. They use a lot of energy so they need meat! Insects are ok but not for them,but they will hunt minnows all the time. Will eat insects when are big hatches otherwise will look for consistent food. More than that are territorial, ...
Finally is Summer. The rivers are nice, outside is warm even in high mountains, insects are everywhere. Unfortunately the fish are full with food and is starting to be difficult to catch from now on. The time for Big flies like hige GHRE variants and Peeping Caddis tied on size 8, 10 and 12 hooks are ...
Fishing with nymphs in this period is probably the most effective style. Levels of rivers are high, more or less clear and fish are eating in frenzy.In April the most efficient flies are GRHE in different variants. Also peeping caddis are efficient tied in different styles. At the end of the June caddis pupae nd ...
These ants are considered lately more efficient than those tied on classic hooks with straight hook shanks . The curved shape also called grub shape or caddis shape type of hook, especially Demmon DGS 900BL gives a nice look more close to the anatomical shape of insects. Ok a good observer will tell you that an ant ...
Hi friends, I decided to make a step by step for this nymph that I use with success in almost all waters especially when I used long nymphing in ginger clear rivers with medium or small current. To tie a micro baetis nymph that should work you should take in consideration 2 aspects : size and ...
I tied a few nymphs with the new Squirmy wormy materials. made in USA by Spirit River this soft type silicone based material started to be very popular in tying world. Is used mainly for tying worm types of flies also called San Juan Worm flies. Compared with traditional materials like dubbing, chenille, threads and ...
