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A Flytyer's Journey: America's Dark Blue Sedge - Video is Awesome!
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Sunday, February 14, 2010. America's Dark Blue Sedge - Video is Awesome! Philip J. Mancini. When I attended the Somerset Fly Tying Symposium at New Jersey last November, I had a golden opportunity to meet a lot of great people, fly tyers and fly anglers. One was Philip Mancini, a young family man who loves the arts, his fishing and his fly tying. Or contact him at LoveTheArts@verizon.net. The Dark Blue Sedge - Psilotreta. The Cased Larva of the Dark Blue Sedge. Dark Blue Sedge Nymph. As adults, their bod...
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A Flytyer's Journey: Fishing Flies - An Encyclopaedia
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Sunday, April 4, 2010. Fishing Flies - An Encyclopaedia. By Malcolm Greenhalgh and Jason Smalley. Published by Harper Collins Publishers, London. Available from Coch-y-Bonddu Books. When I first started tying way back in the dark ages, well, the early 1960s, one of the must-have fly pattern books was A Dictionary of Trout Flies. By J Edson Leonard, first published in 1950, with over 2000 fly patterns and what an eye-opener that was! I still have two editions of that work. Unfortunately for me this wo...
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A Flytyer's Journey: February 2010
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Sunday, February 14, 2010. America's Dark Blue Sedge - Video is Awesome! Philip J. Mancini. When I attended the Somerset Fly Tying Symposium at New Jersey last November, I had a golden opportunity to meet a lot of great people, fly tyers and fly anglers. One was Philip Mancini, a young family man who loves the arts, his fishing and his fly tying. Or contact him at LoveTheArts@verizon.net. The Dark Blue Sedge - Psilotreta. The Cased Larva of the Dark Blue Sedge. Dark Blue Sedge Nymph. As adults, their bod...
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A Flytyer's Journey: We Need Your Help
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010. We Need Your Help. The Parachute Custom Dry Fly Hook made in England. I have just posted a large article on my website www.kossiedun.com.au with reference to the correct positioning of the post on Parachute hackled flies that are tied on standard dry fly hooks. Click here. The House of Hardy also patented their Ride-Rite Parachute flies, again in 1934. There is also the suggestion that Alex Martin of Glasgow produced his own hooks around the same period. So, can you help? Mike V...
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A Flytyer's Journey: October 2010
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Thursday, October 28, 2010. The Classic Dry Fly Box. After the terrific success of Mike Valla's first book, ' Tying Catskill-Style Dry Flies. It's pleasing to see that Mike has released a new work on the history of 100 famous old flies and fly patterns of the Catskill region. This just goes to prove how diligent Mike was in reproducing these flies for this book. I'm still awaiting my Limited Edition copy; there may be some left, so I suggest you get in touch with the publishers. The Classic Dry Fly Box.
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A Flytyer's Journey: The pontoon boat and big browns!!
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Friday, May 7, 2010. The pontoon boat and big browns! On a recent trip to New Zealand, I had first-hand experience on the value of owning a pontoon boat. What impressed me was the ease of its mobility. On still water it simply slips across the surface with a minimum amount of effort and it's truly amazing how far you can travel in a very short time. This is the sort of fish I'm talking about and over. The week I was there, I caught plenty of them. The fishing was so good that I've just got to go back!
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A Flytyer's Journey: Brown-eyed Blue Leptophlebiid Dun
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Sunday, January 17, 2010. Brown-eyed Blue Leptophlebiid Dun. Some of our Australian mayflies are around all season whilst others only for a short while and this can vary from region to region. Hatch charts, if you can call them that, are mostly compiled from observation and a lot of guessing. The only authority that I know that gets it right every time is Mother Nature and you really have to work hard to get all the information you need from her. They all belong to the Leptophlebiidae family. The tal...
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A Flytyer's Journey: Happy New Year!
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. Hope you all have a great 2010! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kossiedun - the website. View my complete profile. TMC 200R #22 caddis. Capt Austin Carlson with a decent Cobia. FlyfishingBum - Jeff Currier. My Blog has Moved! Flytying Boutique - Supplier of hard-to-get flytying materials. A FLYTYER'S JOURNEY - THE WEBSITE, MICK HALL'S KOSSIEDUN. Sexyloops UK - Flytying. Marcelo Malventano - Realistic Fly Master. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Oz!
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A Flytyer's Journey: November 2009
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Saturday, November 7, 2009. Nothin' like a nice, cold Vic on a hot day. Sitting under the Grappa Grotto. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Kossiedun - the website. View my complete profile. TMC 200R #22 caddis. Capt Austin Carlson with a decent Cobia. FlyfishingBum - Jeff Currier. My Blog has Moved! Flytying Boutique - Supplier of hard-to-get flytying materials. A FLYTYER'S JOURNEY - THE WEBSITE, MICK HALL'S KOSSIEDUN. Sexyloops UK - Flytying. Marcelo Malventano - Realistic Fly Master.
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A Flytyer's Journey: The Classic Dry Fly Box
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Thursday, October 28, 2010. The Classic Dry Fly Box. After the terrific success of Mike Valla's first book, ' Tying Catskill-Style Dry Flies. It's pleasing to see that Mike has released a new work on the history of 100 famous old flies and fly patterns of the Catskill region. This just goes to prove how diligent Mike was in reproducing these flies for this book. I'm still awaiting my Limited Edition copy; there may be some left, so I suggest you get in touch with the publishers. The Classic Dry Fly Box.