Comments on: The Stickfly

By: Wayne Coady

Wayne Coady — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:13:31 +0000

Hi Dave: Just found your site and I am a new fly fisher and now very interested in fly tying, thanks to your wonderful instructions. Here in Nova Scotia Canada we have many lakes and rivers…very healthy fishing areas.

I look forward to trying out my new fly tying kit and hopefully learning to be a good fly fisher.

Great job Dave.

Wayne Coady Nova Scotia Canada

By: murray mcavey

murray mcavey — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:18:17 +0000

What a fantastic lure, used my first one yesterday on my fly rod, third cast whamo! a thirty minute battle and my biggest brown trout ever; a 6.9kg monster. Thank you very much.

By: vic perry

vic perry — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:47:45 +0000

hi dave & teem thanks for a simple fly to tie all the verry best vic

By: Stuart Poll

Stuart Poll — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:09:19 +0000

Hello David, Thanks for the advice on joining a fishing club in Derbyshire,i had already joined Matlock angling club for 2009 but i would love the chance to spread my wings a little so next year i will join Derbyshire county club. The reason i am contacting you today is that i would like to start tying some flies using wing slips like the Iron Blue and The original Greenwells pattern. With this in mind i was wondering if you could do a vid on the preperation and tying of wing slips such as teal and mallard. i have to say a final word of thanks as i caught my first ever fish on a self tied fly today, an immaculate and beatuiful little brownie from the Derwent using your Stickfly pattern. As i mentioned before i have only been fly fishing and tying for about 5 weeks so today’s small victory was more down to luck than judgement, it still felt like a great achievement though and lets face it…if your not good it doesn’t hurt to be lucky. Tight lines and thanks again. Stuart.

By: topflyman

topflyman — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:52:19 +0000

Hi Dale
Thanks for your kind comments.
There is nothing more satisfying than catching a fish on a fly you tied yourself.
The Woolley Bugger gave me 2 notable days in New Zealand last year……about 40 rainbows to 31/2 lb on a river I doubt I would ever find again.
Most of my fly fishing is on stillwaters and can be unpredicable but my first love is fishing buzzers and nymphs. We do bait fish for the grayling in the winter, on the Derwent about an hours drive away, and sport can either be fast and furious or totally dead(not very often)
There will be more vids as we can find the time to get together this year.
Remember a bad days fishing is better than agood day at work.
Happy Fishing
DaveC.and the Team

By: Dale Ruth

Dale Ruth — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:28:10 +0000

Hello Dave,

Received an unexpected but welcomed ” Flytying Kit ” for beginners; however, I was somewhat reluctant to try my hand at fashioning even a simple pattern taking into account that I had never tied a fly before ( main concern ) and as a result the Kit sat for months shamefully collecting dust. That convenient and unfortunate procrastination quickly came to an end when I happened to stumble across your wonderful website.

I must extend a great deal of personal complimentary recognition to you and your instructional flytying videos which ultimately inspired me to take the plunge and begin tying my very first fly – Wolley Bugger. I have now tied numerous and various fly patterns including several of my very own designs which I’m proud to boast have produced good results.

For me fishing – somedays I do more fishing than catching but always enjoyable nonetheless – is an experience and passion that I cherish deeply and furthermore that experience, without question, has now been greatly enriched especially when fish are caught on flies that were made by one’s very own hands.

So thanks very much for your contribution to the Art of Flytying and do keep up the awesome work.

Fan
Dale R – British Columbia, Canada

By: topflyman

topflyman — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:45:16 +0000

Hi Gustav
Good to get your message again. Thank you for your comments and it pleases those of us on the Team for your appreciation. It is good to know that you are catching fish. I am finding it hard work at the moment because a lot of our lakes have weed very badly.
I have been on holiday for 2 days with my wife Jean, and friends. While I have been away Jon has put out a new vid. It is an emerger pattern which floats and you will find it good when the fish are taking flies off the surface. Let me know if you have tried it.
Happy Fishing
DaveC.and theTeam

By: hello im gustav on youtube themangaking12

hello im gustav on youtube themangaking12 — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:31:49 +0000

hey i appresiate youre vidds and i have watched att alll of them under a long time you brougt me in yo flyfiching and flytying and i have gott a lot of fiches on your flyes hope you write toome soon

gustav 13 yers old sweden

By: topflyman

topflyman — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:59:19 +0000

Hi David
Nice to get your comments. We try to do a cross section of patterns and the list is endless. I think our flies are quaint rather than weird. I am not yet sure that the trout in their various countries are aware of their cousins abroad. Roll on the day when the experts realise that there could be universal patterns. The fish would just have to learn to accept them. I am off to New Zealand next week to have a go at their brownies.
I have faith and confidence in the 75% of traditional patterns I use here in the UK.
Happy Fishing
Dave C. and the Team

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:10:54 +0000

Thanks for advancing fly tying. I live on the Rogue River in Southern Oregon, and I also tie flies, and I always learn something by watching someone tie. Some of your flies are those “weird english ones” and other’s will actually work. (This was a joke).

You have an odd whip finish, different than I have ever seen.

David