Flicking feathers

Step by step instructions for a billfish tube with a  Rainy's turbo popper head. for some serious disturbance.  Tie them in your preferred colour combinations and sizes for the offshore fish near you.  Although it's designed for billfish like marlin and sailfish, don't hesitate to chuck it at Mahi's kingifsh or others that come up on the spread. Materials used Large plastic tube Semperfli Nano silk 3/0 Saltwater flashabou several saddle feathers rainy's turbo popping head 15mm flat tape eyes superglue

step by step instructions for Peter Morse's Klingon bill fish fly.  This fly has proven to be effective in Australia and Malaysia among other locations. Check out Morsie's website here  http://wildfish.com.au/ Materials Large plastic tube Thread: White 3/0 Super hair: white + a contrasting colour pearl flash krystal flash Saddle hackles, white + contrasting colour 10mm eyes Loon UV thick

Step by step instructions for the classic bill fish fly Cam Sigler's Big Game Tube.  It's been a mainstay of the billfish fly fishing scene for years and contineus to work for  marlin, sailfish and other pelagic species too.  It's not the most difficult tie, but will make you burn through a lot of materials. Materials used Large diameter plastic tube Thread: 3/0 (I use semperfli nanosilk) Tail:Saddle hackles 12-18 in contrasting colours Flash:Saltwater flashabou Colar: Several plumes of marabou Eyes:large eyes of your choice UV resin Popper: Cam Sigler Popping head www.camsigler.com 

After our Sailfish trip to Rompin in November I've had a few questions about the equipment needed to tackle old stick face. The following  information is by no means definitive, but should prove useful to anyone looking to try their hand at sails on fly.  And you should all be looking to! Rods, Reels and Line  You're looking at #12 outfits here. We all have our preferred brands and models, and on this trip there were rods from Sage, Redington, TFO and Colton on the boat.  Although all of them got it done, the Colton blue water stick which was a bit heavier seemed to be putting more strain on the angler than the fish at times but had excellent lifting power near the boat, it's probably a great stick for fighting tuna. Obviously you need a reel to match your rod, quality brands that you trust and have confidence in are a must.  I mostly used a Tibor Gulfstream loaded with 300yards of 65lb backing and a Rio GT line for poppers. The guide's choice was a ...

I put together a short clip of our trip to Rompin. Enjoy!

I thought I'd just put the how to videos for the flies we were using in Rompin in one post so they're easy to find. Here are the 2 that resulted in fish landed; 1. Cam Sigler big game tube.  Orange/yellow, Pink/white and Chartreuse/Blue all got eaten  2. Flashy Profile Fly The flies that were eaten but we didn't convert Klingon pink/white and orange/yellow/white

My first trip to Mexico is  coming soon, almost ready on the gear front, just need to pick up some new leader material and make sure my shots are up to date.  The fly tying is almost done too, still a few more crabs and stuff to tie for the permit, but bones and tarpon are taken care of.  Might stick a few sundries in for jacks and cudas . Getting excited.  

Busy Summer Well I've had a super busy summer so not much time to write on here, especially when instagram and twitter are so quick.  Poor substitute I know, but there's been a lot going on.  First thing is  I got an article published in the North Forty E-magazine which you can read here HERE  it's an introduction to Fly fishing for carp  with a Japanese twist. Really happy with it and hoping to have some more articles in other publications soon I've also just made Flicking feathers into an actual business, doing fly tying demos, teaching and selling custom flies which is going pretty well, but it's keeping me busy all the time.. keep your eyes peeled for a webshop coming soon-hoping to have some logo printed technical shirts and the like as well as fly tying stuff. Fishing Not been out as much as I'd like, but then I never do fish as much as I'd like.  Between work, Youtube and tying I've only managed about 1 trip a week, mostly for river ...

Continuing with my fly tying videos recently, I've been doing a bunch of bonefish flies to build my  YouTube Channel (click here to sub)    so I thought I'd add them here  in one go than add separate posts as I go along later. Martyn's mantis                                            Borski craft fur worm The slamaroo

Here's how I tie this killer pattern for fish eating species..Tuna and dollies love em..see!