miketipp

Has anyone compared the Vision Nymphmanic to the Cortland Nymph or any similar rods on a river. I am looking to get a new one and I am between these 2 but there might be something better for around the same price. Any suggestions? No point mentioning anything over €400

20 Years of being a graphic designer who spends his days wondering how he ended up sitting behind a computer for 9 hours a day. Thats why fly fishing is so important to me. Without the peace and beauty I find on the river I'm not sure I could stick this life.

Class.

People, thank you for the replies. My son seems to have a small interest probably to to my over interest about fishing. I think I will bring him to a pond and try and get him catching a few course fish and keep practising casting with a fly rod in the garden. Hopefully he will follow down the same path because fishing give so much back to the angler that can ever be explained. My 4 older bothers all passed fishing on to me and its the one thing I hope that I can pass on to my kids. Really happy I found this website, excellent information and very helpful anglers. Greetings for Ireland lads and lassies. Michael

My son is nearly 7 and I have had him in the garden a few times with my lightest fly rod showing him how to cast. The rod is too long at 8.5ft. Is he too young still or is there a suitable light rod that someone can recommend. I have heard that he would be better off fishing with a worm in a lake to get him catching fish first before trying to use a fly rod. Any advice most welcome.

Stunning. Would love to be able to create a fly that good.

Would casting a 5 weight floating line on a 3 weight rod risk breaking the rod? I assume the line would be too heavy and cause damage to the rod, or am I wrong?

Update on fly line, I was out again over the weekend and the line was a bit better to float. I had a small weight hang off the line over the last weeks to remove the coils that I think are the cause of the sinking but is there a better way to remove line memory from a fly line?

I use something similar over here in Ireland. They work well in the right conditions. Your are stunning. Excellent tying skills.

They are both stunning patterns. Beautiful work Lucian.

Hi all, I have been tying myself for the last two seasons and catching on my own creations but as a novice I have limited materials as I am only in the process of building up my materials. This might be a stupid question but is there anything like a programme with you can input what materials you have and it would give you patterns based on your details? I know nothing beats asking an experienced tier what can be created with X,Y and Z but it does take a lot of time and money to build up a good stock of different threads, wires, feather etc. and I find I come across a pattern that looks great but there is always some material that I don't have so I substitute it for something in my collection. Or maybe this is how new patterns evolve, out of necessity. Any way my biggest regret is I didn't start tying years ago as it has rounded off the whole fly fishing life full circle.

Thanks for the replies, Planettrout I keep mine in a similar box but I find the smaller sizes get so messed up that when on the water when I try and take one out I lose some to the river. I know if I put less in each compartment that won't happen but I was just wondering was there a special box for soft hackles. Beautiful collections of flies there people.

Where do you store your soft hackle patterns and spiders? I have used foam boxes and the crush the hackles or if you use a dry fly box the all get stuck together and destroyed. Any suggestions for a way to hold them without damaging the soft hackle?

WOW. this is excellent information. Much appreciated.

Will do. I was looking at the line in a bath yesterday and I noticed that it was very coiled, so when on the water some of the coils sink below. So I put the reel on a shelf and hung a small weight on the end to try and take the coil out of the line. This might help too.