The Flymen Fishing Company are preparing to release a new product called the Fish-Skull® Fly Tester™ next week at the International Fly Tackle Dealer show in Orlando, Florida. The Fly Tester™ will retail for $285.00. Watch the video and take a look at this little baby! Check out the company’s page to read more details. All I know is, I want one…really bad!
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Revive Fly Fishing Journal – Summer 2014
The new Revive Fly Fishing Journal is live! Check it out!
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The River DVD and Blue-ray – Available Now!
Robert Thompson and Third Year Fly Fisher have released The River. I’ve been waiting for this one and I’m a little behind on getting it up here on FrankenFly, because I thought I had already posted it. Anyway, my copy is on its way, so I haven’t seen it yet myself, but I’m hearing nothing but great things about it. So I will be excited to kick back and enjoy this one. The DVD and Blue-ray contain The River, The Brothers Brown, and Summers. The DVD running time is 3 hours. I’ve included the trailer for each below.
You can purchase the The River DVD or Blue-ray at the Third Year Fly Fisher website or at these fine fly shops.
Gates Lodge (Grayling, MI)
Schultz Outfitters (Ypsilanti, MI)
Old AuSable (Grayling, MI)
Fullers NBOC (Lovells, MI)
Three Forks Outfitters (Midland, MI)
AuSable Anglers (Mio, MI)
Nomad Anglers (Lansing/Grand Rapids, MI)
RW Summers Rods (Traverse City, MI)
Lunds Fly Shop (River Falls, WI)
Chicago Fly Fishing Outfitters
Flymart (Canada)
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Element – carrying fly fishing styles
The Element Skateboard company is more than just skateboards. If you read Element’s story you will notice they have a common ground with fly fishermen, it’s about defending wildlife and nature. Their tree logo represents their sole motif that is to safeguard the environment.
Besides skateboards, Element is big into outdoor clothing. Recently Element has begun to make clothing available with fly fishing related imagery. In my opinion, this is very cool because I know Element designs and sells quality stuff! Check out a few of the items below. My favorite is the bear fly fishing in the background. Love it! Hopefully this is only the beginning and they will continue to produce more fly fishing related clothing and accessories. It is terrific to see a cool company like Element include fly fishing in their products.
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Partridge of Redditch hook comparison chart
This is the 2014 Partridge of Redditch hook comparison chart. It was sent to me straight from Mark Hamnett, so it is legit. I know it is very helpful to me, so I wanted to share. Click on the logo.
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Simple Single-Fly Display – Gary Tanner
I keep up with Gary and his blog, The River’s Course. He has some interesting fishing adventures and ties extremely well. He has recently been working on some nice wooden fly displays. Here is his introduction and then head over to read and see all the details.
Some time ago, classic fly tyer Eunan Hendron asked me to make some display stands for him that would hold a clear plastic baseball card holder, which held the fly. Made a few and shipped them off. Recently had some time on my hands, some wood cut-offs from various project, and the ever-present need to try and make a few bucks. Thus, this post on making (and hopefully selling!) a fly display stand with case.
First, there was that pesky pile of various woods, chief among them some 200-year old Longleaf pine that came down courtesy Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina back in 1989. I found it in the rafters of an old sawmill, and used it for the floors of a house we were building outside of Edgefield, SC, when I was the director of development for the National Wild Turkey Federation. The sapwood is light and has a nice color; the heartwood is hard as a rock, full of pine resin and almost impossible to sand because of that resin. But it is beautiful. So I started with this: http://theriverscourse.blogspot.com/2013/10/making-simple-single-fly-display.html
Gary’s most recent post goes Inside a chunk of firewood…
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HMG Fly Systems by Joe Nicklo
After four years of unsatisfactory attempts at refining and tweaking a hot melt glue process application worthy of introduction to the fly tying community, HMG Fly Systems is pleased to present a superior fly tying material that competes with and, in some but not all cases, replaces epoxy and ultraviolet (UV) cured fly tying components.
HMG Fly Systems has developed many patterns using hot melt glue as a component. In some patterns it is the total material for a completed fly. We have also developed several patterns that are threadless — not a single wrap of thread in the entire fly. See HMG patterns at http://www.hmgflysystems.
Unlike epoxy and UV cure materials, hot melt glue exhibits many advantages and has superior qualities. The applications of hot melt glue are infinite and limited only by the fly tier’s degree of creativity. The following list shows some of the many advantages of hot melt glue over epoxy and UV cured materials:
• No need for UV lights or turning/drying motors.
• Available in a variety of colors.
• Like paint, colors can be blended to obtain a desired color.
• It cures in seconds without a sticky residue.
• It can be shaped and segmented.
• It can be repaired.
• Eliminates weaving materials.
• Colors are mixed and faded during the tying process.
• Can be colored with permanent markers.
• Reduces tying time, in some cases as much at 50%.
• Hot melt glue is extremely durable.
• Can be used to make on-the-stream wader repairs.
• The big one — it is very inexpensive when compared to epoxy and UV cured products.
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MicroLon Material
Lund’s Fly Shop is carrying a new material called MicroLon. The owner of Lund’s, Brian Smolinski made a video showing the new MicroLon Material in their swim test tank. For pricing and selection, go here at Lund’s Fly Shop.
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Fish-Mask released!
A few days ago Flymen Fishing Company officially released their Fish-Mask. This is like a weightless Fish-Skull. This effect would be something you would normally use a UV resin or epoxy to achieve, but this makes things much simpler. As you can see by the image below there are many sizes available. To read much more detailed information Flymen has a full page of information over on their website.
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