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Salmon coloured spey shrimp flies were all the craze here a few years ago. They still produce large searun browns. Plus, perch anglers kept asking me for a pink lure so I made a long boolie version of it. Water had been too warm too long this autumn so it hasn´t produced a keeper yet but given...

I was asked if I could tie a shrimp fly on a jig hook.This is how they look like around here: http://globalflyfisher.com/tiebetter/shrimp-anatomy/pic.php?id=8817 Made a little film, too. Unfortunately, the hair darkens a bit when it gets wet while the powderpaint doesn`t. Might switch to...

I just received a few hundred open eye siwash hooks that I am very impressed of, exactly what I needed for my articulated jig- and dressed lure hook range :icon14:. Only problem is that the size 4 I ordered was exactly the same as the size 1 -bigger than a size 2 octupus sickle, and too large...

Hi everybody! Bored from work, surfing the internet for fishing stuff, a guy I know came across these floating little somethings: http://www.hawkenfishing.com/category-s/1837.htm I´m interested in everything that is tyed for the spin fishing rod. Has anyone fished these things? I´m very fond...

Hi! I am planning to add spinner bait arms to my product range, helping to enhance the versatility of my baits. Just received a shipment from barlow´s. http://www.barlowstackle.com/Jig-Spinner-Wire-Forms--P900C124.aspx Its good quality, but the hook/eye of the snap locks are crimped so narrow...

Hi everyone, its been 2 years now since I quit my job at the bank, one year since I went to business with myself. Now how ist that REALLY making me fell? hmmmm... Here are some pics of my humble beginnings, the sparsely outfitted first own shop at a downsized shipyard with both the big and...

Hi! The other day I was goofing around with floating eyes and hackle such as used in those east coast striper flies. I thought the H style could make for a neat tube. Couple of days later, I had some customers over for a tupper-ware-style party with presentation, bbq and fishing in the...

Hi, I finally managed to get some "peacefull" fish on panfish-sized jigs. Forced myself to it since I find the idea as such interesting. These are white bream, a carp-related species which is hardly ever targeted with anything else than fly maggots(if at all). Got lots of the inevidable...

Hi, I`m looking for some economic, sturdy, long necked offset hooks for use as a weedless trailer on "articulated" jigs but also maybe to tie offset flies upon. A certain degree of salt water tolerance would be a great plus. :icon14: I´ve read about the Eagle Claw D.O:A. longneck on stripers...

Hi there, I was looking for a pattern that was big enough to qualify as a northern pike lure and also heavy enough for a beginner-friendly baitcaster setup when I read about chatter baits being good pike lures. Here´s the result: A 3/4th heavy wire banana mold loaded with a plug screw in the...

Hi everybody! I have never fished spinner baits myself, but now that I am the proud owner of both a baitcasting combo and a brand new wire bender, in a country where these things sell at an impressive price of 10-20 € a piece (thats more than 20$), I think I might learn to like them. :D Plus...

Hi! Thinking of ways to visualize fish hitting my jigs (s.a. fixing a cam to a downrigger) I came across this http://www.amazon.com/MarCum-Underwater-Viewing-System-7-Inch/dp/B0081X0VM0/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t Do you guys have experience with cams like these? Does it record? I am mostly thinking...

Hi everybody, I´m thinking of using lead molds for resin casts. The idea is to cast a jig head in the small end of the cavities, pretty it up with powderpaint and eyes and everything and then give the jig head a second layer of resin that looks cool and brings up the casting weight without...

From the squid to the sculpin to the ragworm - these things got my wheels spinning biiig time! :idea: The steel is flexible enough to thread a propeller and a bead up the shank. The hookeye is an extra eye I once bought for sinkers. A skilled feather wire bender - who I am not - might of...

Hi there, after receiving a request for european sea bass bucktails, I took the customers`s color and weight wishes as a basis for a range of bucktail jigs. I´m nowhere near "real" salt water fishing in the northern sea, but he liked them. Hope they`ll work! I´ve seen and listen...

Well, its bloody short, I can tell you. Like many other fishing authorities here, the state of Berlin has imposed a general late winter-early spring off-season for predatory fish and lure fishing all together. Perch lures of less than 2cm however don´t qualify as lures as such and are...

Hi! This is a fly that I use for trolling behind a mini-sideplaner on the banks of the kiel canal. I needed a small, floating trolling lure with a single hook point for good penetration and a strong hook that holds a large fish. It is a stable producer of large brown trout. The Lip is cut from...

Hi, dunno who of you fishes for trout and salmon but here´s how I make the most of it: -filet fish -shock-frost to soften the meat and kill possible bugs -pluck small fishbones -cover with a mixture of 60% brown sugar, 40% coarse salt and a little pepper -cure for 12 hours -rinse, put...

After getting aquainted with a few youngsters on her first trip a few weeks ago, Isolde today scored for this autumn´s first legal sized 20" seatrout. Cold smoking season has opened!

I was trying to design a subtle colored open water lure for big ol`perch, that takes the niche of bass over here and is equally sought after by anglers. The idea was to use of-the-shelf techniques from the successfull cod zonker but at the same time find a better solution for the body than...