A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
You enter a store that specialises in fly rods. Your aim – to purchase your first fly rod. The store owner approaches and describes the brilliant fishing to be had in the mountain streams. “Wow”, you exclaim. “What rod would…
This guide offers new members a helpful overview of fly tying—the art of creating artificial flies to catch fish. It isn’t a complete manual but a starting point that explains the essential tools, materials, and techniques you’ll encounter as you…
The basic shape of the Muddler Minnow can be adapted to create patterns of any colours and made of any materials.
Most tying problems stem from two things:
Failure to properly plan the fly, and not knowing how to work with deer hair.[...]
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Here is a new knot to try – the Davy Knot. This knot is attributed to Davy Wotton, a fly fishing expert living in the United States.
It is very compact, making it a suitable knot for small flies. It is probably easier to tie than the famous Penny knot and It also uses very little tippet if tied carefully.[...]
This video tests the location of dumbbell eyes tied on flies. I test under and over the hook shank with several conditions including a water test. This video might help beginning fly tiers understand the effect dumbbell eyes have on…
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Steve Rajeff teaches distance casting to FFI/IFFF Master Casting Instructors – Long Beach Casting Club – March 29, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:00 Stroke length/ Tempo/ Trajectory 1:14 How many false casts when bonefishing? 3:41 Note the textbook FFI definition…
Steve Rajeff teaches competition accuracy casting to Master Casting Instructors – Long Beach Casting Club – March 30, 2014. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 0:05 Hand position changes with distance 4:03 Tendency to tail from late wrist rotation 5:19 Double haul enables…
The “Pinch Tie In” is one of the basic techniques used in fly tying. It allows for the fly tier to control the material and place controlled thread wraps onto that material. Controlling the the material when tying flies is…