| Monday: | Andy Dear |
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| Tuesday: | Paul Arden |
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| Wednesday: | Paul Arden |
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| Thursday: | Martyn White |
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| Friday: | Mika Lappalainen |
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| Saturday: | Viking Lars |
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| Sunday: | Tracy&James |
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The heat is on
Monday, 27 June 2022
Texas is famous for a lot of things...two of them being the blazing summer heat, and the wind. Unfortunately for those of us with a fly fishing addiction, this summer so far has been a COMPLETE BUST.
Learning from video
Tuesday, 28 June 2022
For about four months now I’ve been working hard on my swimming technique. At first I had to get over my fear of open water swimming and swimming into a set of Snakehead babies (that hasn’t happened yet so I still don’t know if they will be defensive and attack or flee as a set) or indeed into a snake. I do look for snakes while sighting but since I still manage to swim into floating sticks then hopefully the enormous king cobra that I missed spotting will avoid me. Yep, and then of course there are lake monsters looking up at my silhouette that every angler imagines catching…
Blast from the Past – Carlos
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Here is another blast; a great friend and highly inspirational flycasting coach, Carlos Azpilicueta from Northern Spain. For many years Carlos brought us flycasting games, presentation cast and articles in a weekly format, both in Spanish and English. He also translated much of the earliest flycasting articles on Sexyloops into Spanish.
The Price Of Things
Thursday, 30 June 2022
A guy asked me to tie him some pike flies last week. In the end he baulked at the price (not because he couldn't afford it either), but rather than saying no tried to engage me in discussion about how much a fly should cost. I didn't really engage, I never do, but it isn't an unusual occurence, I thought it might be worth writing about. I mean what is a fly worth?
ashole teacher and other bedtime stories (part 2)
Friday, 24 June 2022
I have recently read some fishing blogs. Some of them seems to have lot of words with nothing to say. Some others seems to be not much words with lot of content. For me writing these FPs are learning experience, I have to go thru my casting, fishing, guiding, teaching etc. Are FPs making any sense, I don't know always even myself.
Weight
Saturday, 25 June 2022
Putting weight on flies is somewhat of a religious subject. If you do, how you do it, where you put it, how much, how little, which type. I prefer letting the line bring the fly to its intended depth - no question. That leaves my with flies I can fish however I want, shallow, deep or in the middle.
Here's your beer, and three plates of food to go with it!
Sunday, 26 June 2022
This weekend we’re in Italy at the SIM Fly Festival in Castel Di Sangro. It’s our first trip to Italy and we’re loving the country and people, though it would be better if it wasn’t 300C. We’re not used to this sort of heat in Wales, so this is really testing our endurance. Today we did several casting demos with various outfits, including a 5# Sexyloops hot torpedo. They have kindly provided a casting platform so there is less potential to tick, however the grass is weedy so our pick-ups are sometimes tricky. On one cast today with the ST27, I managed to snag strongly enough to snap the leader!
