Nothing is more frustrating that a snapped quill when you want to make your favourite dry fly. I use a lot rooster quill because is natural. I hate plastic and I try to avoid it as much as possible. It is cheap and has unique colors and shades. Another thing : it is ...
Jan Rozman is known in Slovenia as a fantastic fisherman who hunts huge marble trout with big streamers. He walk on the river side to check after good spots and is looking for any sign of trout marble activity. Then he catch them ! He knows why and if Facebook account is full with ...
It is a simple fly where I used synthetic dubbing as"wing". Instead CDC which is fantastic and has a great success due to his mobility in water, this time I preferred to use purple dubbing to give an extra color and extra sparkle to this fly. I mainly use in late Autumn for grayling ...
Perdigon skin is a new tying material dedicated for tying perdigon nymphs. It is kind of plastic sheet cut in strips in different sizes. Perdigon skin has another great advance, it is dyed in different colours to cover the spectrum used by fishermen. You can increase, decrease or even change the final colour of the ...
These days you will find all kind of threads dedicated for fly tying purposes. I want to be short and I will write about choosing the proper tying thread for river flies. Talking about river flies it is good to have in mind that we need to create flies with a delicate profile. River insects ...
If you are tired or bored to make hot spots wrapping threads behind the beads here is a simple alternative. You can fix a few strands of body thread or synthetic dubbing fibers in different colours. Frankly who do not love nymphs with hot spots? Everybody use them and everybody are fishing them all over. ...
In Autumn fish are more picky and they eat small flies. Not because they do not love to eat big and succulent sedge or stone flies but in Autumn are a lot of midge and small flies. Based on these facts trout and grayling are feeding in frenzy with small and very small flies which ...
Fishing these days is is difficult due to the pandemic situation. Almost all of us fish locally because in this way the risk of infection is reduced. I decided to take a short fishing holiday in Slovenia. Fishing there is about passion for fishing, magic rivers, great local friends and excellent local food. All ...
Until now, tying semi-realistic buzzers was not my favourite way to spend time. I hate when I do not make a proper segmentation. The UK guys are masters when we talk about these flies and I admire their work. These days Troutline Shop received a new stock of realistic tying materials and I started to ...
Usually I tie this fly as simple as possible with natural materials only. Especially for body I use peacock quill. But lots of tiers do not find good quality quills and for this reason synthetic quill appeared in tying world. One brand who is produce good quality synthetic quill is the Serbian company: Hemingway's So ...
