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1997

Date	Title	Body	Image
Jan 20. 1997	January 20th 1997	The ice is gone...
Jan 1. 1997	Miss Ring	The name and appearance of this fly owes a bit to the New Zealand Mrs. Simpson flies in which a couple of feathers are roofed on each side of the fly. These flies are also known as Killer flies or tied in the Killwell style.
Jan 1. 1997	Tying Glass Bead Flies	If you are like me, when glass beads came upon the fly tying scene a few years ago, you passed them by.

1996

Date	Title	Body	Image
Dec 12. 1996	December 12th 1996	A couple of questions from Germany I recieved an e-mail today and will let that be the first 'Right now' section for a long time:
Nov 30. 1996	The Magnus	Magnus is a 'classic' on the Danish coast. This small anonymous fly and its very similar brothers the Frede, Sandshrimp and many others, are probably the most catching flies on the coasts of Denmark. The eyes and the palmer hackle are the prime characteristics of the Magnus, which is mostly used in clear water.
Nov 25. 1996	The history of the gold bead	The gold bead flies that are now so popular, actually originated in the central part of Europe - more than 100 years ago.
Nov 24. 1996	International Fly Tying Symposium 1996	This story was mailed late november 1996 to both the U.S. and European flyfishing mailing lists.
Nov 24. 1996	Tyer gallery	The International Fly Tyers Symposium in New Jersey 1996 featured a lot of well known tyers. Here just a few of the impressive list.
Nov 20. 1996	Poul Jorgensen's General Practitioner	In this autumn I had the pleasure of meeting my countryman Poul Jorgensen at two lectures he held here in Jutland, Denmark. One of the flies he tied was his version of Edmund Drury’s famous salmonfly, the General Practitioner. Tied after its original recipe it’s something of a task to make; but Poul has found out a simpler, but just as effective pattern.
Nov 13. 1996	Beads and eyes	Beads or eyes are added for one or both of two reasons: weight and appearance. The eyes and beads discussed here are made from metal: brass, steel, lead - even tungsten. This will make them heavy and thus add weight to the fly. The weight will bring the fly down and often give it a certain behavior - a diving or jigging motion. But it will also add to the looks of the fly, the most obvious case being eyes added to fish or fry patterns like streamers.
Nov 1. 1996	Absolute hilarity	Combine the practicality of Sheridan Anderson, The witty prose of John Gierach and the comedic illustration of Gene Trump and you have the only Alan Pratt book ever published. Click here to read why this book surpasses simple flyfishing comedy into absolute hilarity. A genuine 6 on the GFF scale!
Oct 30. 1996	October 30th 1996	The first autumn storm The first autumn storm is sweeping the nation. High velocity winds, rising water and falling leaves mark the move from kind indian summer to rough autumn.
Oct 25. 1996	Cleaning fly tying material	Why bother to clean your materials? Bugs, dirt and chemicals are likely on the material.
Oct 24. 1996	Monster Muddlers	A large muddler pattern for big fish. This one has caught both pike and baby tarpon.
Oct 15. 1996	Float Tube Regatta 1996	The Float Tube Regatta 96 was a meeting between Danish float tubers arranged by my fly tying and fishing guild The Bananaflies.
Oct 7. 1996	The biggest catch - hooking yourself	A story about a hook in the finger
Sep 15. 1996	My float tube is a Sputnik	Floating poetry
Aug 30. 1996	The nature of feather construction	We have all read fly patterns that refer to quills, barbs, barbules, fibers, shafts, stems, vanes and so forth, but when we read these terms do we know what they have reference to? This article sets all these terms and many more straight.
Aug 6. 1996	August 6th 1996	Summertime...
Aug 1. 1996	Poul Jorgensen flies	Salmon fly tyer Poul Jorgensen.
Jun 9. 1996	June 9th 1996	Water is warming up fast
Jun 6. 1996	Hooks break	Hooks do break occasionally. It's a typical error when night fishing: you trust that everything is OK at the business end and just cast away
Jun 1. 1996	IPS 96	As a reaction on the Illustrated Pattern Swap 1996 participant Joe Cronley posted this message to the FF@ fly fishing mailing list: I must confess: When this swap was first proposed, I thought it was a bit odd and too complicated to work. My procrastination in submitting my materials was in part a reaction to that feeling.
Jun 1. 1996	The Jassid	The headline contains some truth in the sense: When trout/graylings eat tiny surface-food, they only nead to open their mouth to a narrow slot and sip the fly in. If one presents them with a fly with a broad hackle - then they can’t suck it in through their narrow mouth.
Jun 1. 1996	Grey Duster	Later my friend and I ran into problems on our favorite stream, when the tiny Caënis dayflies hatched. The trout sipped the fresh emerged flies all over the water - but they rejected all the flies we offered. Then we found a note in a magazine saying, that the fly with the peculiar name - the 'Grey Duster' - should be the right medicine, if it was tied with a parachute hackle.
Jun 1. 1996	Two flies in one	The small dipterae - Simulium sp. - has always been a problem - they are tiny and shows up in fantastic numbers. Why should a trout prefer our imitations when there are so many all over the water?
Jun 1. 1996	Fly tyers gallery	These are all tyers. Some of them were caught at the Danish Fly Festival and some at Fly Fair - Europe's largest outdoors fly show wich takes place every second year in Zwolle in Holland. Here are some pictures from the '96 event. If you want to see more international tyers have a look at the pictures from The International Fly Tyers Symposium 1996.
May 31. 1996	May 31st 1996	It is a strange spring
May 30. 1996	Fly Fair 1996	The following report was sent to the flyfishing mailing lists - FlyFish@ and Euro-Flyfish@ - after my return from a most enjoyable Fly Fair in Holland May 1996.
May 20. 1996	Roman Moser, Austria
May 15. 1996	A day of fun and fly tying	Once again I've had the distinct pleasure of being together with fly tyers of the absolute elite. Henrik Strandgaard - a reputed Danish salmon fly tyer - had again set up a fine arrangement featuring two US tyers: Steven Fernandez and Marvin Nolte. Both ought to be well known, but let me introduce them to you anyway:
May 13. 1996	May 13th 1996	That #?%&/# wind!
May 12. 1996	A.K.'s Fly Box	A.K. should be fairly well known. The term 'production fly tyer' is very suitable for him. He counts his flies in hundreds of dozens and has before demonstrated his ability to write books about this kind of tying. In this book he reveals the contents of his own fly boxes. They contain a lot of brown trout flies - no salt water patterns, no poppers, no bass flies. There are a few hoppers and ants, but apart from that it's mayflies, stoneflies a caddises.
Apr 29. 1996	April 29th 1996	The garfish are here
Apr 26. 1996	April 26th 1996	Fish early and late
Apr 22. 1996	Making a wading staff	Here's the recipe for making a 'Totally Cool' Wading Stick - Danish Kind. What most people call a wading staff.
Apr 20. 1996	Juro Mukai's shooting head setup	Juro Mukai is a old aquaintance from the Flyfish@ mailing list. I had the pleasure of fishing with him in the Seattle area, and was intrigued by the 'modular' line setup that he uses on his two hand spey rod for steelhead.
Apr 20. 1996	April 20th 1996	Whadda short spring that was
Apr 17. 1996	Linked flies	The flies on this page all have one thing in common: they have a linked body. Many of us strive to add life to our flies - the sense of something living. This can be done by using soft materials or adding long tails like on zonkers. These are all fine techniques that work well. But something urged me to try something different.
Apr 4. 1996	Start of April 1996	Denmark is still a cold place
Apr 1. 1996	Twined or furled leaders	How to make a great furled leader using the ancient method of rope making.
Mar 20. 1996	Float Tube Magic - A Fly Fishing Escape	This time it's float tubing. It's a basic book, that treats the subject from the bottom: considerations before buying, selecting a tube and other equipment, getting 'on board', strategies and much more. On top of that comes a more general section on trout food and flies.
Mar 14. 1996	Squirrel zonker	I used to hate zonkers; those pre cut rabbit strips were like hell to tie with: too thick skin, too long hair, too wide strips. I stopped tying them until someone told me how to cut my own strips.
Mar 1. 1996	Winter fishing	Winter pictures are from the island of Als.
Feb 1. 1996	Tube Flies - A Tying, Fishing & Historical Guide	The authors have added immeasurably to the fly tier's repertoire with this wonderful volume dedicated to the tube fly.
Jan 26. 1996	Francois le Ny	The french pediatrician Jean-Paul Pequegnot has written a book about french flies - "Repertoire des Mouches Artificielles Français". 1975. It is translated to english in the last years. He gives among others also descriptions of flies from Britanny.
Jan 20. 1996	The Mymph	This has been my most successfull trout fly in the autumn of 1995. I've caught most of my trout from a float tube, and I believe that one of the keys to the success of this fly is the fact that it's weighted. This and the fact that it's actually very nymph like tells me that it would probably act fine as a stonefly nymph imitation, and this has given the fly it's name 'My nymph' or 'Mymph' for short.
Jan 20. 1996	Glitter Shrimp	A killer fly in the right hands on a cold winter day. A very simple shrimp pattern for Danish sea trout and many other targets.
Jan 18. 1996	The Essence of Flycasting	This book is very stylish, kind of mellow in the visual tone and held in beautiful B/W. People who have met Krieger (or seen his videos) will know that he is not excactly B/W. On the opposite: he's a colorfull, enthusiastic, noisy, acting-all-kinds-of-roles type of instructor.
Jan 12. 1996	Mysid	Wanna tie a mysis? This might be the pattern... Small, easy to tie. It can even stand in for a small dragonfly nymph.