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Hi, since last year I am using Mustad hooks for my flies. I found the hooks very sturdy and sharp. They also have very precise proportions and last but not least a very nice finish. I have retied pretty much all my repertoire on Mustad Signature Hooks and also took a new series of pictures. Please check out this album details — http://gallery.me.com/thomas.zuellich#100268 When you enlarge the picture you find an info button. This flips the picture and you can read a short recipe. Enjoy. Please don´t hesitate to contact me with questions. Should you want to obtain some of the flies check out the little shoplist here - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/flies2.html tight lines, Thomas

I am sitting in my aquarium being busy doing OE hydropsyche larva .... and it is going well. Lost count already. I guess it is about 3 or 4 dozen now. Good, as the next show (Hamar) is coming up. Cool Catskill pattern, Gisle.

Jeg fikk boken nå. Bra at de trykket en ny utgave. Han er ikke bare en kjempeflink fluebinder, er han en glimrende fiskare. Det gjør ham så spesiell. Jeg binder fluer for fiske så han er kanskje den beste til å lære av. Jeg anbefaler alle sine DVD `s og skrifter. http://www.anglebooks.com/product.php/23335/oliver-edwards--flytyer-s-masterclass-

Hi, for dry flies I rib with the thread. I toe the body "backwards" towards the bend of the hook. This way I end up with my working thread at the tail end of the abdomen. I simply wind forward in open 45° turns. I don´t like a too flashy approach. It feels like insulting the fish. One can use very fine dubbing touched to the thread, if one desires to add a bit of efect to it. The air bubbles trapped glimmer well enough. tight lines, Thomas

Benecchi 12/0

Inspired by the video of Vespertina hatch I thought this is what I need in June. Hook - Mustad C53S #14, Tail is Pheasant Tail fibres as well as the upper body, Underbody is dubbed with flyrite #19, hackle is Metz, Peacock herl for the thorax and Antron for the wing. Basically a Klinkhåmer the other way around - a knilK ;-)

Takk skal dere har. In English again. I understand norwegian and speak quite a bit already, but writing is a different story. I made a little mistake in the order of the tutorials. It can be understood as a system. I understand fly tying as a simple construction, similar to other handycrafts. There are several techniques or modules. I am working on a longer explanation of this methodical approach. techniques 1. thread base (common module for all fly tying) 2. forming (body or thorax) 2.1. using dubbing 2.2. using dubbing eye to bend and ribbing with thread coming forward 2.3. using peacock herl spun around the thread 2.4. using plastic sheets (nymph skin or flexibody) 2.5. using spun material clipped in to shape 2.6. using foam on the hook 2.7. using foam for extended bodies 3. hackling (independend on „where“) 3.1. simple (with just the hackle feather) 3.2. hackle interwebbed with thread 3.3. fur strip 3.4. splitting thread and insert a hackle material (hares hair, CDC fibres) 4. wingcase & back 4.1. „fibre“ (hare hair, peacock herl, pheasant tail fibres etc.) 4.2. „plastic“ (nymph skin, flexibody, plastic bag, foam) 5. wing 5.1. flat (deer hair, prepared or unprepared feathers, etc.) 5.2. upright as a post „soft“ (antron, CDC, hares hair, deerhair, etc.) 5.3. post upright „stiff“ (foam) 6. legs 6.1. soft (rubber) 6.2. semi realistic (Veli Autti method) 7. Whip finishing 7.1. on the hook 7.2. on the parachute wingpost A. t.z.´s sturdy red tag - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/redtag.html 1. / 2.3. / 3.2. / 7.1. B. t.z.´s quick gnat - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/gnat.html 1. / 2.3. mixed with 3.2. / 7.1. C. t.z.´s hares hair dry - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/hhd.html 1. / 2.2. / 3.4. / 7.1. D. klinkhamar special - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/klink.html 1. / 4.1. / 2.2. / 2.3. / 3.2. / 7.2. E. t.z.´s foam hare klink - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/fhk.html 1. / 4.2. / 2.2. / 2.1. / 3.4. / 7.2. Maybe a bit complex to explain, but just start with fly A. and work you way up in the modules. The results can be actually very simple flies from just one material - like my HHD (hares hair dry) but the thought process is visible in a way. Just look at the shadow image of your flies from rather far distance and see weather it looks like an insect or not. Don´t be too specific. Example - We all can identify a plastic fruit from a real one from even a far distance. The common fruit in furniture shop imitation can be as good as it gets, this just decreases the distance, but it will never be "real". It is missing too many variables. It maybe looks very much like the real thing, but we won`t grab it and bite into it. Imagine this when tying flies. Look at them from a distance. Observe the behaviour in all aspects. How does it "fly" (aerodynamics), float or sink. How do the fibres behave. Do they grab air? etc. etc. - endless - so give your feeling a go. A modular approach helps to change little aspects to make better flies. It is not so much about all these different patterns - it is more about the details. I personally think every fly is already different. --- add the presentation and you have quite a spectrum with just 6 flies in your box. Thanks for making me think tight lines, Thomas

Hi, I have updated and rearranged my website a bit. The step by steps are a bit easier to find now. t.z.´s sturdy red tag - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/redtag.html t.z.´s quick gnat - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/gnat.html t.z.´s hares hair dry - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/hhd.html t.z.´s foam hare klink - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/fhk.html klinkhamar special - http://www.teazy.net/handmadeflies/klink.html These are quicktimes which forward one page per click, similar to a powerpoint. However, there is also a button at each page to connect to a picture album with even larger images. Hope you like´m. tight lines, Thomas

Hi, from an international perspective these days in june do make sense. A travelling flyfisher from abroad maybe considers a meeting in the season better than a one outside his travel time. tight lines, Thomas

Shimano eier G. Loomis, ikke sant?

Hei Andre, jeg er med. Jeg kan ikke se en fordel å bruke dyrt hackle for dette. Parachute fluer er en "aerodynamisk" konstruksjon som skulle lander rett opp nesten vært kast. Vingen hjelper med det. "Paraloop" syns som en metode for noen som ikke klare att å binder parachute fluer. ;-) ... //Thomas

.... find myself "out there" --- near or far ..... and share this with friends and that very special person. Not a dream - a plan. A very very real plan.

reinsdyr lagt med reinsdyrhår ;-)

nå vet jeg hvor "what the hek(ling)" komer fran ;-P

fish do too .... ;-)

sorry to maybe boring ... but ze good old Klinkhamer is it for me in terms of emerger patterns - photo by Hans Weilenmann, fly tied by yours truely

Hey! Den der var flott, fint bundet og fint foto! Den kunne jeg tenkt å prøve også. Tør jeg be om en liten bindebeskrivelse\materialliste? Likte forøvrig Zappa sitatet ditt også :) bjorni Hi, jeg fant Veli Auto legs bindebeskrivelse på youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxiBNuzxx3U Samme teknikk. Jeg prøvde med ulike sorter kropsmaterial, best er Virtual Nymph Nymphskin 3mm i translucent eller natur, grøn er ganske bra også. Jeg har snakkt med Tom / stramline så han har det på butikken snart. Anita (kjæresten min og kjempe-elev) har laget med translucent, og brukte ostrich herl i naturfarge. Hodet er malt svart med vannfast edding 3000 og ryggen er malt olivebrun med vannfast tusj. Jeg har nesten glemt å sier at du trenger "adhesive leadfoil" også. Gammel bindebesrivelse sier winebottle leadfoil, men de finns bare på veldig gamle vinflasker. Veniard har leadfolien. Visst du har andre spørsmål, bare send email eller ring meg. Jeg har skype også. tight lines - t.z.

Jeg er tysk. Fra August har jeg bodd i Oslo hos kjæresten min .... Samboen min begynnte å binder fluer. Damer er flinkere ....

nymph tørrfluen (paradun)

flotte fluer ... har du prøvt red tag som torrfluen? En av men favorit fluen under darlig kleckring (sorry - wrong thread - men jeg fiske de på kort lina også ;-))

Fy fa.... for noen fluer Den siste er jo ren og skjær "art on hook" Nydelig, ikke så mye mer å si Terje! akkurat - "art on hook" - Leif Ortenholm, vennen min fran Stockholm har lært mig den flue.

akkurat nå er det ephemera som klecker av Dyna Kingen

Det er relativt enkelt å binder. (excuse my norsk - I have akkurat flyttat i August.) Kroppen er Nymphskin, gills under kroppen er Ostrich herl. Halen er en "filoplume" fran en Partridge. Legs er Pheasant tail Veli Auti style. Hele bindebeskrivelse finns i Oliver Edwards DVD´n.

in full winter tying mood .... allt fran vanlig palmermygg (fishcatcher) til semirealistic (fishermen og womancatcher)