Wow fascinating stuff regarding up eyed hooks and the turle knot! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFUw4zhC4hQ Totally agree about the down eye helping to get the tippet under the surface. I thought about that too but as there are so many people that believe the tippet should be floated i didn't thin...

Says it all in the title, I have thought about this for a while and no obvious reason is coming to mind, hopefully someone on here knows?

Hi all, I just found a couple of youtube videos that I found way too cool not to share: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wq48opvHsNI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx_Wrbl_5ks Its from a science channel so there is a bit of jargon and some shameless plugging but the slow motion footage is pretty awe...

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLFWaiK26Es

Hi Peter,

I understand you have done a lot of different types of fly fishing chasing all sorts of species all around the world. Can you describe to us your all time favorite fly fishing experience and why this is so?

Thanks for joining us,
Tristan.

this time for sure...

How's this:

Thanks TZ!

Here is a bunny streamer pattern I have tied clouser style with lead eyes in an attempt to emulate the escaping bait fish darting to the bottom idea:

Yeah that is an interesting piece of food for thought. Sometimes it seems they spot things late and have a very rushed rise but other times, like at 1:01 in the first video where we see the trout come into the very shallow water on the left to rise and then travel a long way to the right to rise aga...

Ooops sorry I can't seem to be able to figure out haw to get a picture from my hard drive inserted here, can anyone help out????