Thought I would show of a new fly which I came up with last week to try and use some of French Partridge I have lying around. Not original in style but not all flies have squirrel dyed with curry powder. P1030070.JPG The hook is a standard straight eye dry fly hook. Tying thread/body- Sparton yellow...

Nice thread, I particulary like this fly as it brings back memories of Striper fishing and on the one occasion I got to watch Jack tie. While he was tying this fly is explained the back ground of the fly, as well as the way he ties it and why. Of particular interest will be that he was basing the de...

I am right handed and always wind clock wise but there are the rare occasions that I will wind the other way. Mostly this is winding a rib that anchors a palmered hackle. The other occasion is when I need to tie down a material in a particular way and the only way to get the effect I want is counter...

Nice looking flies and like the effect on the tube/wire bodies. Please can you tell me more about this.

Ashley

Thank you for the welcomes.

May get to Yorkshire was there a couple of years ago for work but didn't get to fish

letumgo, I've seen you on another board, I know your friendly enough

Hi, I have just found out about this forum via a few friends from else where and after having a look around thought an introduction would be good. My name is Ashley from Malmesbury England, i have been tying for a rather long time and apart from wet flies, flynymphs, I also tye all kind of flies and...

I kept a journal for years carefully recording all my days fishing but always felt there was something needing in a hand written diary like photographs (I was using film cameras at the time) and details of flies which OK for just writing the material list with a fly stuck in the page but these get l...