All kinds of ants are spread throughout the whole world due to their adaptation skills. This is why fly-fishermen have to take into account that ants are a part of the fish´s diet. We can see this because ca...
Las hormigas son insectos que en su evolución han colonizado todos los continentes y tan exitosas han sido que se las encuentran en gran cantidad de variedades.Mas allá de sus complejas organizaciones, por...
The Royal Trude is a classic fly that remained in time. The down wing provides fish with a different silhouette than most attractor flies. It is a universal pattern that could be used everywhere.This fly is cre...
Our boxes are filled with endless patterns and every year new ones are added, unless one decides to fish only with the ones that never fail. Some fishermen just prefer to stock their boxes with Woolly Buggers and maybe s...
This is one of the flies that cannot be missing in the box of any dry fly addict. The attractor pattern is similar to the Irresistible Adams in its design. It has great buoyancy because it is tied with deer h...
This fly, credited to Art Flick from the early days of fly-fishing in the USA, is probably one of the simplest yet effective trout dry flies, both for rivers and lakes.Gray Fox, Cream, and Dun are some of the...
About fifteen years ago, a friend of mine came home to order ten dozen of flies. I checked out the list of flies and realized he hadn’t ordered any Soft Hackle. I told him so and he just said, “I don’t like those, ...
Unos 15 años atrás un amigo vino a casa para encargarme unas 10 docenas de moscas. Leyendo el listado que había preparado con las cantidades y modelos (y preguntándole el porqué de algunos) me di cuenta que no me ha...
This famous fly was designed to imitate large dark stonefly nymphs of North America. It was first tied by Lew Oatman of New York. The stonefly nymph essentially lives in fast flowing freestone rivers. This style of nymph...
Cuando se habla de moscas secas por lo general imaginamos esas pequeñísimas imitaciones de insectos adultos y las asociamos a los equipos más livianos que hemos podido obtener y a tippets muy finos. Mas esto no sie...
La Humpy es otra de las moscas que todo pescador debe considerar a la hora de actualizar su stock de moscas secas previo a una salida de pesca.Bonita en cualquiera de sus versiones, la Humpy es una mosca seca...
This is another fly that every fly fisherman must consider when stocking his dry fly box before a trip. The story of this fly goes back to the 40´s when it was named “Algonquin” and used by northern Michigan Indians...
In January of 2005 I was surprised when I saw a young american angler at the Manzano pool in the Chimehuín River (Patagonia). Not only by the way in which he casted and mended the line, but also because he caught five r...
En enero del 2005 me llamó la atención un joven norteamericano que estaba pescando en la Curva del Manzano del río Chimehuín. Y no solo por la soltura con la cual lanzaba y corregía, sino también por sacar en unos...
When beginning to fly fish, one wonders if a big fish might be caught using such small fly…Created by George Griffith, one of the founders of Trout Unlimited, this pattern imitates midges, midge emergers, m...
The Blue Dun is a classic dry fly pattern that was originated to imitate the early mayfly hatches. This dry fly works for a number of hatches including the Blue Winged Olives, Hendricksons, Blue Quills and Quill Gordo...
