Flicking feathers

 Another oldie from www.sexyloops.com After a blackout on the train caused an unwelcome surprise break from everything, I'm starting to get back to some kind of normalcy. I even went out fishing on Monday night, which annoyed/worried my wife but made me feel better about a lot of things. It's peak time for big seabass and Chuck came down from Tochigi to try and get into his first bass. I got him set up with the ubiquitous rubber candy and we e started of at an inshore point and I got into a fish pretty quickly off of a dock light. I hooked and dropped another better fish immediately after while Chuck was getting eats but couldn't help but trout set on them. A couple of moves later and he got into the swing of things, spookily catching a blackfin seabass or Hirasuzuki for his first ever seabass. In my years of living in Japan I've only ever caught 2 of them. Later we went looking for bigger fish, and although we saw a spin fisherman in another boat catching an absolute t

  This simple little pattern is absolutely deadly for fish that are focused on emerging and egg laying caddis. It can be dressed more heavily so it can be skated and skittered or more sparsely to suit. Tied large it is a great pattern for stillwater fish too, especially for great red sedge or murroughs. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways, head to https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers and sign up. Materials list Hook: TMC2487 or equivalent size 8-18 Thread: Uni 8/0 to match body colour Abdomen: Hareline dubbing or other natural dubbing Thorax: Fox squirrel or similar Legs: Brown partridge Wing: Deer hair

  This deadly little streamer was devised by Martin Smith of England for targeting trout, but it has since proved itself for a range of other species including bass, zander, perch and pike. It'll certainly catch other species too, and is definitely worth trying for any predatory gamefish. You'll see plenty of variants with different additions, but I don't think they work better than the original. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways, head to https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers and sign up. I strongly recommend a salon style UV lamp to give these and all your UV resin flies a final cure for a hard, clear tack free finish regardless of the brand resin you use Amazon https://amzn.to/3qTXqiH Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3fSw9qM Material list Hook: Ahrex FW550 Weight: Tungsten bead Thread: 140 denier of your choice Body: Congo hair/EP ( Use stiffer material for bigg

  The other day I shared a photo of a well chewed billfish tube that I had tied for Juan Wei to use on the Rompin sails. It's nothing particularly special but I had given it a core of body tubing to keep the feathers from collapsing against the tube, much like the fatboy mullet which uses EZ body to give the wing fibers shape and volume. The result is a fly that is almost as wide as my hand and will stay that size in the water. The idea being that the fly would be much easier to both see and feel/hear because of its significantly larger profile yet still be quick on the delivery as there isn't much real bulk in the fly. I'm sure other people have done this, but it's the first I've seen it on a billfish fly. A surprising number of people started telling me I should be giving credit to Blane Chocklett or even that I was ripping him off. I was a bit taken aback at first, I mean reversed tubing bodies have been around since before I started tying flies almost 30 years a

  This deadly little streamer was devised by Martin Smith of England for targeting trout, but it has since proved itself for a range of other species including bass, zander, perch and pike. It'll certainly catch other species too, and is definitely worth trying for any predatory gamefish. You'll see plenty of variants with different additions, but I don't think they work better than the original. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways, head to https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers and sign up. I strongly recommend a salon style UV lamp to give these and all your UV resin flies a final cure for a hard, clear tack free finish regardless of the brand resin you use Amazon https://amzn.to/3qTXqiH Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3fSw9qM Material list Hook: Ahrex FW550 Weight: Tungsten bead Thread: 140 denier of your choice Body: Congo hair/EP ( Use stiffer material for bigg

  This deadly little streamer was devised by Martin Smith of England for targeting trout, but it has since proved itself for a range of other species including bass, zander, perch and pike. It'll certainly catch other species too, and is definitely worth trying for any predatory gamefish. You'll see plenty of variants with different additions, but I don't think they work better than the original. To support the channel, get access to the monthly tying classes and enter the giveaways, head to https://www.patreon.com/flickingfeathers or https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/flickingfeathers and sign up. I strongly recommend a salon style UV lamp to give these and all your UV resin flies a final cure for a hard, clear tack free finish regardless of the brand resin you use Amazon https://amzn.to/3qTXqiH Amazon UK https://amzn.to/3fSw9qM Material list Hook: Ahrex FW550 Weight: Tungsten bead Thread: 140 denier of your choice Body: Congo hair/EP ( Use stiffer material for bigg

  This is a chat with Phil Blackmar about golf, coaching, commentating and of course flycasting. I think many of you will find this very interesting in many levels. Thanks Phil!