Here are some flies that we use to fish on Roach, Rudd, Yellow perche.

Once I caught a Pike (little pike) on a little spider.



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Ruard

upstatetrout wrote: Thu Feb 21, 2019 8:19 pm I think the technique is much older than Hans or you and me!!! .

Tom

I think Marc Petitjean originated this techniek or he spread it in the world of tying.

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Ruard

letumgo wrote: Sun Feb 10, 2019 10:16 am Thanks Hank. Your comment almost reads a a haiku poetry. Love it!

Ray and Hank you inspired me:

Beautiful, Blue fly
All pix showed up this morning.
Thanks sharing with us

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Ruard

I've been helping out with our club's beginners tying class for over a month now. I've gotten to the point that I can actually dress a fairly decent fly again. While setting up our tying room in the new house I noticed that I was running low on my favorite Mustad R50UNP-BR hooks in sizes 14 and 12 ...

Hi Doug,

Did you also dyed the pelts yourself??

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Ruard

Hmmmmmm ... now I'm wondering. I sent an email to the imgbox (3rd party sharing site) customer service desk this morning inquiring about this incident.

UPDATE : Imgbox responded to my email, explaining that they did have an "issue" for approximately 12 hours that has since been resolved. This ...

The discussion in this topic reminds me of a few pages of the Book Wet Flies of Dave Hughes were he told us about a meeting with Pete Hidy.

I made a scan of several pages and hope it is allowed:

https://images2.imgbox.com/1d/51/RNKbwEDw_o.jpg

https://images2.imgbox.com/2d/ac/Fu81KukJ_o.jpg ...

Bill, as far as i know, the Leisenring lift was a minor tactic in Big Jim's arsenal. dd

Could be Stefan. All I know is what he and Pete talked most about in the published literature that I have read.

My guess is that it was emphasized due to being a new, or not well known, technique. Dave ...

Yes I can!!

Nice tying!!

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Ruard

Hi Hank,

I never heathen the point of the hook, only the eye to prevent it from braking when i make the hook eye straight to the hook.

If you press down the point of the hook, you must not held the hook and the pair of tongs square of each other but on one line so you can press the barb down ...