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Permit are indeed crazy. Spooky as hell, and yet quite often perfectly happy to snap up a tiny crab fly that lands out of nowhere a foot in front of their face. I have been much more successful with that tactic than with standard permit ideas. Taught to me by an old Mexican bonefish guide. “Hit him ...

This stuff
https://loonoutdoors.com/products/stanl ... -off-paste
Works for keeping ice off your guides. Having a clean fly line is also important, otherwise it will stick to the frozen guides.

These days I just go skiing when it’s that cold though!

Lasse, you're right. What I meant to say was that the fish gets off the hook. It's not often that the line breaks because of a strike or a fisk. However, it has happened. When the line breaks it's nearly always in the perfection loop. I use a 9' tapered nylon leader with a perfection loop in the en...

Competitive archery does have some similarities to fly fishing. Mostly in the mental side of course. Visualization techniques and mental practice are useful. Spend a lot of time going through the process in detail in your mind visualizing yourself getting it right. Proper practice is also important....

I agree with the above. If you are breaking off 0x tippet on Danish sea trout, you either have bad line or bad knots or you have found some exceptional fish! I believe in strip setting for everything except dry fly trout on light tippet. Certainly for sea trout it’s the way to go. When you find the ...

I’m sure you will find some interesting things in it, but it will be very dated by now - I think it was first published in 1978! When I first read it, as a kid, I was just starting to fly fish. My dad had done some fly fishing 20 or so years before, but mostly in rivers. Fishing reservoirs for stock...

RIP.

After my dad and I read his book “reservoir trout fishing”, probably around 1982, we totally changed the way we fished our local lakes - and started catching a lot more fish!

I have built my HT4 with REC SF guides (thin wire single foot guides), and it's the only one of my rods to have "fly rod guides" installed. I fished with it yesterday and was reminded once again why I dislike wire as a guide material. Shooting line was awful - like the line was dirty. Maybe it real...

Looks like a Devon minnow. (http://www.fishingmuseum.org.uk/angels.html). I caught plenty of fish on those when I was a kid, though I haven’t used one in decades.

As for whether it’s a lure or a fly, I don’t care. If it works I’d use it.

I assume that you have tried something like this?
https://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/i ... 2a1384.jpg