changes afoot

well have decided for the time being that my website over at spanglefish is now going to be a site dedicated to step by step fly tying for of course pike as well as all sorts of predatory fish , i really just need to take some time out for myself and get back into enjoying what i do which is fly tying as a hobby and if i can help somebody along the way to catch there first fish on a home made fly then brillient my job is done .

theres far to many money grabbing tossers in the world and i dont want to be part of that i just want to fish and tie flys so please jump over to my website

www.spanglefish.com/pikeandpredatorfishingflys

to see what im up to , i will try to add a new step by step every week or mabey even a couple if i get the time

i will still have the fly tying cd for sale this basiclly allows me to buy materials hence the cheap price millionaire me er no thanks

tight lines all
dave

natural or plastic

my mate simon over at pike flyfishin articles posted a video of a lure made from a carrot well sorry old buddy i think this tops it enjoy

fly tying cd

have now launced my own fly tying cd details as follows

NOW AVALIBLE AT LONG LAST A DATABASE FOR PREDATOR FLY ANGLERS
FEATURING

"152 FLY PATERNS AND THERE RECIPES "

"FLY TYING TUTORIALS"

"MATERIAL SUPPLIERS"

THIS WILL GET YOU TYING YOUR OWN FLYS IN NO TIME WITH EASY TO FOLLOW PHOTOGRAPHIC STEP BY STEP LESSONS FOR BUNNY BUGS , TYING WITH SYNTHETICS , TYING EP BAITFISH ETC

AVALIBLE AS A CD £6.50 INCLUDING P+P

USB DATA STICK £9.50

for order details please mail

predator-flys@fsmail.net

VOL 2 WILL BE OUT AUTUM 2010

or go directly to the website copy and paste the link to your browser

http://www.spanglefish.com/pikeandpredatorfishingflies/index.asp?pageid=150421

been mucking around with some big foam heads , heres the result of a few experiments mostly 7+ inchs long

new pike / zander flies

still trying to perfect the perfect zander fly im sure the mean greenies will like em too

pffa commitee

when we were young the current pike fly fishing association commitee all went to university together here is some rare footage of us on university challange we are the top row

zander flies

the last couple of days in between customer orders ive been tying up some perch and zander flies for an up coming trip (like i havent got enough already) the keel flies dont look much when there dry but take on a great baitfish look when wet , the hooks are owner 4/0 worm hooks

so you know what its like you sit down at you vice somedays and your mind goes blank the picture below wasnt one of those days think im going to need to get some more fly boxes

enjoy whats left of your weekend and hope you got a few hawgs

tight lines
dave mcfluffchucker

the thursday funny

my mate simon over at http://pikeflyfishingarticles.blogspot.comhas a wonderfull friday pin up after 12 beers section which we all know and love well ive decided to continue this great idea with the thursday funny video as a warm up for simons post on friday heres the first one enjoy

*please note if your offended by anything TOUGH

banner link

a few people have asked for a banner link to my sites , so here ya go just copy and paste the code

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bullet flies

was in my local Orvis store the other day and noticed they had some really small sea bass flies made to look like small sand eels , now i was looking at this fly and thought that would be nice ramped up to pike fly size so out came the 4/0 hooks and these are the result of my first attempt at a monster version of said sand eel fly , now these flies are about 4 and a half inch's longs and are mostly buck tail with a soft body/head made from loon soft head , now I'm pretty sure from looking at them that they will catch fish but I'm pretty sure they will cast like a bullet as well (hence the name) all i need to do i think is refine them a bit

i do that quite a lot ill see something like a sea bass or salt water fly and think if i change certain eliminates of that fly it would make a great fly for pike so its always worth having a look around and think outside the box

if you click on the picture you also get a close up look

deep water thoughts

im off for a 2 dayer in june on a boat which requires the flys to be pretty much dragged on the deck in 20/25 ft of water and really you want to be getting your fly down into the zone quite fast so uber fast sink lines is the name of the game but you still need your fly to be hard on the bottom as well so this is what i came up with , the flys without the metal heads have lead wire on the hook shank as well as dumbell eyes , i also wetted 2 of the flies to make sure the profile was going to be right

back to big flies

this week ive mostly been tying big flies again , been mucking around with big 7"+ flies with foam heads

nice little video