fly-sites updated

Posted on 10 November, 2015 by Håvard Eide

It has been quiet here for a week or so, and with good reason: last week I was doing some maintenance on the fly-sites (flyhooks/flytyer/flyrods) and discovered that I’ve neglected it for quite a while! The base cms I based it on was outdated and not supported anymore, the libraries was outdated, and when I started to look at the structure it just wasn’t good enough to do rapid updates to the site….

This weekend I sat down and ported all the sites to a new CMS and re-built the entire admin and user-facing sites…. This took quite some time, but today I pushed the changes to my server and restarted apache! And it failed… but only for 5minutes since I forgot something in the upgrade script ;)

Everything should be back to where it once was and the functionality is as it was last week. But: if you do find anything not working: let me know!

Green Highlander – spey-ish version

I had some yellow and green whiting rooster saddle that I bought earlier this year, but hadn’t gotten around to use yet, and since I’m on a GH spree these days I thought about a spey version of the GH that was really buggy and would make a lot of movement. The hackel is of great quality, but I’ll cut down a bit for the next version and create something that is something more sparse than this.

CDC & Roe

Posted on 8 November, 2015 by Håvard Eide cdc daiichi partridge roe sud2

More CDC & Deer on my vice these days – the top on Daiichi 1167 #12 and the dark olive below on Partridge SUD2 #14. The one below is a tried pattern for me, but with the addition of CDC in dubbing loop for the head.

Catskill course

Posted on 6 November, 2015 by Håvard Eide catskill partridge

I have been tying a lot of salmon and seatrout flies this year, and that’s ok, but it’s time to go back to the roots of where I started: the dry fly! I will be focusing a lot on this the coming winter, and to start things off I went to a flytying course last night (my first ever tying course!). Niklas Dahlin had a course over 4 hours, presenting catskill tying to us, and it was a blast! Tied up these on Partriedge ideal standard dry #14 http://flyhooks.org/partridge/sud2-ideal-standard-dry with a lot of help from Niklas.

Sitting down, observing someone tying is something you should do if you get the chance: the techniques, skills and flow of a flytyer is something special to observe, and you can pick up a lot of tips.

Ordered in some new material today, and I’ll be improving my skills over the course of the next few months.

Too bad it is so long until season starts again here in Norway!

flyhooks.org – 10 mustad hooks

Posted on 29 October, 201529 October, 2015 by Håvard Eide mustad

Quick update this afternoon: 10 more sizes on 6 different hooks from Mustad:

I also added a new feature to search: if the search only returns 1 hook you will be taken directly to the hook.

Year: 2015

fly-sites updated

Green Highlander – spey-ish version

CDC & Roe

Catskill course

flyhooks.org – 10 mustad hooks

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