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Tips for fly fishing and fly tying.

Fly Speed for Atlantic Salmon

I rarely fish the traditional 45% down and across swing. It’s long been my view that fly speed plays a pivotal role in seducing an Atlantic Salmon to take your wet fly. When I first started chasing sa...

02/22/2021 14:46:41

Striped Bass in Quebec - How to Fish a Bay

To follow up on the article “Where Does the Quebec Striped Bass Come From?” , let’s do an analysis of a bay commonly found on the Gaspé Peninsula and the Côte-Nord. To illustrate this, we will use the...

02/15/2021 15:21:04

How to Prepare Stubborn Feathers

How to prepare/work stubborn feathers/stems, like Mallard or Teal and many others. The better your materials, the better your flies will be. It's important to be able to prepare your materials to make...

02/08/2021 16:04:38

Where Does the Quebec Striped Bass Comes From?

The origin of the striped bass in Quebec is somewhat complex. It is important to understand that there are two distinct populations of striped bass in Quebec. The first population, which is the bigges...

02/01/2021 17:32:15

Choosing the Right Hook to Tie Large Flies

In recent years, the fly-tying world has been evolving at an incredibly fast pace. The hunt for predatory fish such as muskies, pike or even sharks is a glaring example of things that were not done a ...

01/25/2021 15:21:06

The Muddler and its Efficiency

The Muddler is a fly that has been fished a lot since its creation. The original pattern, the Muddler Minnow, is probably in everyone’s fly box. Today, with new materials and social media, we see a lo...

01/18/2021 14:48:14

The Miramichi Knot

In fly fishing, tying good and strong fishing knots is one of the most important techniques that all anglers should know. We all know some good fishing knots helping us to tie our favourite fly to the...

01/11/2021 15:34:49

Prepping Hen Saddle for Wet Fly Collars

Tying wet fly patterns with a collar can be daunting for some tyers at first. Up until this point we only had to worry about a wing wrapped under our heads. While the process of using a collar on a we...

01/04/2021 12:29:21

The Famous Green Machine

If you would ask most of the Atlantic salmon fly fisherman on the Mighty Miramichi Rivers: If you would have only one fly on your fly box, what would it be? Most of them would probably answer the Gree...

12/17/2020 10:36:59

Preparing a Mono Intruder Shank

Jim Boni is an avid steelhead fly fisherman. Fishing both the West Coast and the great lake tributaries, he has great experience chasing those silver bullet. He’s tying several thousand shanks yearly ...

12/08/2020 12:43:53

Displaying Your Art

How to take better photos of your flies You have just put your last coat of head cement on a fly you tied. You are so pumped because you got it all right, proportions, the head, not stray hairs, nothi...

12/01/2020 15:47:20

A smaller thread, yes! But…

As a fly tyer, we always hear that the smallest possible thread is the best to tie our flies with. Although a small-format thread generally gives better results, there are exceptions. Tying thread com...

11/24/2020 14:42:56

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