Category Archives: Fly Fishing

Morsetto Fly Tying Vices

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Stonfo Morsetto Clamp Fly Tying ViceThe Morsetto Fly Lab Clamp Vice from Stonfo is a high quality rotary vise from Italy.
Infinite head angle adjustment and 360° rotary action. Adjustable rotary tension. Locking knob 0°-180°. Interchangeable hardened steel jaws (medium size).
A small and lightweight vice, perfect for those fly tyers who are moving  around, wether it’s demonstrations or fishing trips this vice covers the bases. Supplied with C Clamp ( for any table up to 50 mm thick ), spring material clip, comes with Allen Key and instruction manual.

Have a look at all the Stonfo Morsetto Fly Tying Vices and accessories at Fly Fishing Tackle Co UK

Stonfo Fly Tying Tool Kit

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If you are looking for a nice stocking filler for a fly tier, novice or experienced, these two kits could be what you are looking for.

Stonefly Limited Edition Fly Tying Tool KitThe Stonfo Limited Edition Tool Kit is a pocket sized tool kit. It has 5 tools: a whip finisher, a ceramic bobbin holder, a dubbing needle, hackle pliers and a pair of serrated bladed scissors.

All packed in an attractive aluminium box.

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Using Owner Hooks

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Owner ST36 TreblesOwner Hooks are amazing in their quality and strength,
available for freshwater and sea, they cover a lot of bases. Unfortunately they don’t make specific hooks for fly tying, unlike some of their rivals, the good news is you can use some of them anyway, like the ST36BC Treble Hook, in Black Chrome in sizes 18, 16 and 14 it’s perfect for Sea Trout Stingers.Owner Carp Hooks CT-1

If you are into fly fishing for Carp try the CT-1 Flyliner Teflon Carp Hook from their range of Carp Hooks, super strong, it is a great hook for tying Carp Flies on.

Owner AKI HooksIf you are into blue water fly fishing then you will love the AKI Hook for your steamers, heavy duty forged shank, Cutting Point®, straight eye and in Black Chrome finish, one for those big blue water game fish.

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Marc Petitjean Magic Tool Set

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Marc Petitjean Magic Tool Set

Settle down at the back, I’ve not even mentioned his Magnum Tool Set yet!
If you have ever  tried to dub things like Krystalflash, Flashabou or Deerhair you will know how hard it can be, makes dubbing seals fur seem like a doddle.
There I was trying to dub some Deerhair onto a sedge pattern, complete nightmare, not to be defeated, I got the Marc Petitjean Magic Tool Set out, and was soon banging out Deerhair dubbing brushes. What I like about the Magic Tool is that it enables you to tie in all manner of materials into your dubbing brush at the same time without any problems at all.
Try mixing different colours and types of feathers and fur, including dubbing and/or synthetic materials, the Magic Tool will do the trick!
The Magic Tool Set comes with 3 table clips, 2 regular clips and 3 wooden dowels,
which can be used for winding and trimming synthetic materials such as Flashabou, Krystalflash or Floss into small strands of exactly the same size. It also comes with illustrated instructions.

Check out the full range of Marc Petitjean Fly TyingTools at Fly Fishing Tackle Co UK.

New Fulling Mill Magni Doubles

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Fulling Mill Magni Double Salmon HooksThe new Fulling Mill Magni Salmon Double Hooks. These high quality doubles are made specially for Fulling Mill by Hayabusa. The Magni Double Salmon hooks are available in Black Nickel, Silver and Gold finish. These hooks have excellent proportions, the shank is of medium length with seamless brazing, the ‘limerick style’ bend sweeps elegantly into a wide gape, the points are long straight and razor sharp, the big barb and strong wire add up to a sense of confidence and trust in these hooks. The Magni Double hooks come recommended by Trout & Salmon.

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Hooks that cover many bases

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Varivas 2200BL Hooks

Fishing earlier in the week, flies were on the water, Black Knats, Hawthorns, LDO’s, Medium Olives and Mayflies.
The fish were looking up and rising, some were obvious and some were very subtle, just gentle sips.
So I started off with a Black Klink size 12 to cover the Hawthorns and it worked a treat, later on when there was more Mayflies about I switched to an extended body Mayfly and that worked as well, when it was obvious the the fish were taking Olives I switched to Olive Klinks, size 12 for the LDO’s and 14 for the Medium Olives. All of the flies were tied on the same hook pattern, just two sizes, if the fish had been fixed on the Black Knat it would have been the same hook pattern either a size 16 or 18 Black Klink. The hook pattern was the Varivas 2200BL, which has become my go to hook pattern for Klinks, extended body upwings and emerging sedge pupa.

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Buck Tail for Salmon Flies

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Turrall Buck TailsThe trouble with synthetic hair for some flies is the fact that when you want to mix several or many colours, the only real way to do it with synthetics is to layer the colours.
With Turrall Buck Tail you can put a few strands of each colour together, stack them if you want, and just roll them to get a great mixed wing or tail, something you just can’t do with synthetics, and you can buy them in small patches, you don’t have to buy a whole tail. The standard winging material for large streamers, Salmon and Saltwater flies. These are the finest selected tails from Minnesota and have been expertly tanned and dyed to eliminate oil and unpleasant smell. A Medium to coarse hair of 100-125mm in length.

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Klink & Para Wing Posts

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Tiemco Aero Dry WingWhen creating a wing post for Klinks or Paras I always use Tiemco Aero Dry Wing, having found it covers all my needs in
a wing post material. When you start to unwind it from the card,
you will find that it naturally splits into four strands, I find one of these strands doubled enough to form a post, then I don’t like bulky wings. I form the post by running the silk down to the point where I want the wing to be, I then take the piece of Aero Wing under the shank half way and pull both ends upwards, a couple of figure of eight turns then whip up the post for a couple mms, place the hackle against the post in position and whip back down, tying off the rest of the stalk as I go towards the back of the fly. I then complete the rest of the fly before winding the hackle and whip finishing to complete.
The choice of wing/post colour is one of personal choice, one guide I know swears by pink Black Para Midgeand says orange puts the fish off, other people use orange and seem quite happy with their catches, myself, I use med grey and find I can see it better than any other colour, in fact it seems to catch the light and almost glows.

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Hemingway’s Fly Dubbing

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Hemingway UV Dubbing PacketsOver the past few seasons
I have been giving my flies an extra bit of sparkle, more than just a flashback or an antron shuck. I’ve been mixing in Hemingway’s UV Dubbing on both nymphs and dries, I tend to mix it into the thorax, most of my dries have thoraxes, in small quantities, don’t over do it, use a colour that complements the colour of your thorax, about 20/80 will do it if you don’t twist your dubbing to tight, a little and light to build it up. Trout see into the UV range so even a hint will be visible to them. I use more in the bodies of sea trout flies! I find it makes a difference.

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Tungsten Carbide Scissors

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Veniard Universal Tungtan Carbide ScissorsA good pair of scissors are a must if you’re serious about fly tying, sharp with a fine nose to get in close, any old pair will not do, save them for cutting lead and wires, even then I like them to be sharp, I just use heavier duty ones. The Veniard Universal Tungsten Carbide Scissors certainly fit the bill as very good fly tying scissors, according to one of our fly tying consultants these are one of the finest fly-tying scissors available on the market today.
As one of the most important purchases a tyer makes they cut with great precision and smoothness, and should last a lifetime.

Veniard Fly Tying Tools and Materials are available from Fly Fishing Tackle Co UK