Over the last few years jig hooks have been increasing in popularity mostly due to the success European anglers have been having with jig style patterns, not to mention the great profile they give to most nymphs. I have been using jigs almost exclusively for the last 3 years with the odd exception when I want to use 2mm beads or under. They give you … Continue reading New Tiemco Jig hooks
Over the last few weeks my fly boxes have been looking sad to say the least. Gaps have been appearing where I never thought, fly patterns have been dwindling, no, literally falling from my box. So it’s about time I done something about it. A nice little order of Hanak hooks, and some tungsten beads thrown in for good measure. This arrived at work this … Continue reading Let the tying commence
Sitting at the vice this evening, I thought it would be nice to put a few fly images on here – I’ve been filling my box up with spiders, nymphs and dries. After tying the standard style spiders, I was thinking about hook up rates and bump offs when fishing ’em, so I though… why not Jig em up? Look pretty cool to me. What … Continue reading Fly Tying and Photography..
Been playing around with mink and rabbit strips for the last few months, admittedly I haven’t used them that extensively except for Farmoor and Draycote. The rabbit strips have worked much better for me than the mink this year but previous years it has been the mink that normally triumphs. Now I don’t tie my zonkers big (rabbit), I normally only leave 1ish cm over the bend of … Continue reading Mink V’s Rabbit
With the weekend fast approaching, its about time I filled up the ‘Fry’ box in readiness for some (hopefully!) fry feeders at Draycote on Sunday. It’s not fishing that well by all accounts, but its worth a go. A mixture of rabbit strips in 5 different colours and some glass rattles would sure add some ‘Eat Me’ characteristics to my flies? That’s what I’m hoping anyway. With … Continue reading Fry time?
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