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I started out with dryfly.me 1.april last year, and it has now been up and running for just over 18 months, today marks a milestone here: this is the 300th post that I have posted so far!<\/p>\n

The plan behind starting this blog up was to explore flytying and flyfishing even more for my own part, I had done some tying before, but starting up this blog have driven me to look at different styles, patterns and new areas that all are a part of what flytying is all about. I have posted most of what I have tied up without much filter – the part of putting these pictures up here in the public have driven me to look at the why and how it should be done, and that have learned me a lot!<\/p>\n

This has been a learning journey for me, and\u00a0it will continue to be so! Maybe I’ll get into pike flies, big saltwater flies for tropics, ultrarealistic tying, who knows? What I like is to explore all parts of this hobby to become better at what I like to do: tying and fishing!<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/h2>\n

I have explored a lot when it comes to flytying the last year, and I will continue to post patterns and fishing trips here, but I would like to start looking more into details on things now that I have gotten to a comfortable level of tying: SBS on patterns, a deeper look into materials and maybe look more at rodbuilding and other parts of what flytying\/flyfishing is all about.<\/p>\n

The last 18 months<\/h2>\n

With this beeing the 300th post here on dryfly.me I have gone through all 60 pages and looked at what I have done in the past.<\/p>\n

My first post: Horizontal Midge<\/a>, I had just got the domain and a brand new macro camera, this was the (rushed) start of it all.<\/p>\n

\"2013.04.dryfly.me.midge_horizontal_side\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I then got into looking at material (this was a plan from the start): thread<\/a>, dubbing<\/a>\u00a0and vinyl rib<\/a>. I was still practicing dryfly with CDC&Deer<\/a>\u00a0that really don’t look that good today, but it was a part of learning it:<\/p>\n

\"2013.04.dryfly.me.deer_cdc_emerger\"<\/a>These Aurivilli was the start of getting something right:<\/p>\n

\"2013.05.dryfly.me.aurivilli\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At this time I did a lot of tiny flies down to #32<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2013.05.dryfly.me.parachute-32\"<\/a>First attempt at a wetfly<\/a>\u00a0(and I started looking at different background colors):<\/p>\n

\"2013.05.dryfly.me.green_wet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then in june 2013 my favourite dryfly pattern appeared<\/a>, and I did a SBS<\/a> on it<\/p>\n

\"2013.06.dryfly.me.cdc_deer_many\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And I went out and got\u00a0some fish<\/a> with it. Introduced planet.dryfly.me<\/a> that still haven’t gotten that much traffic, but I think is a really good place to catch \u00a0up on what’s going on with flyfishing around the world. I played around with vinyl-rib nymph<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2013.06.kvitre.no.nymph_vinyl_rib\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and got some nice trout<\/p>\n

\"2013.07.dryfly.me.summer_trout\"<\/a><\/p>\n

in the sunset<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.08.sunset_by_river\"<\/a><\/p>\n

By august I did another SBS on the hatching caddis<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.08.sbs_hatching_caddis_9\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And suddenly it was september and I got my first seatrout<\/a> on fly and did a SBS on a baitfish<\/a>
\n\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Did my first married wing fly:<\/p>\n

\"kvitre.no.2013.09.21.married_wings_jungle_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Explored some new lakes around Oslo<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.10.07.new_waters_5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was now getting into winter and I started tying up many different styles, even some really big #2\/0 streamers<\/a>\u00a0(didn’t leave a stone unturned when it came to exploring new stuff)<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.10.27.green_guinea_streamer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At this time I\u00a0got my first patch of arctic fox and tied up some streamers<\/p>\n

\"2013.12.02.red_foxtail\"<\/a><\/p>\n

but I got some good dries tied<\/a> as well<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.12.08.emerger_back\"<\/a>In december I started looking at tube fly, and tied up my first one:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2013.12.02.first_tube\"<\/a><\/p>\n

this escalated over the winter and I got really into tying large arctic fox\/temple dog tube flies for salmon, exploring sunray shadow<\/a>, more sunray shadows<\/a>, my sunray solstice<\/a>,\u00a0red-tag tube<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Got into PT <\/a>in the new year<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.01.02.pt_gold\"<\/a>Made some troll-looking emergers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.01.08.emerger_cork\"<\/a>Did some buzzers<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.01.07.buzzers5\"<\/a>and some more bead midges<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.01.15.bead_variations\"<\/a><\/p>\n

at this point I did a lot of tubes, and this is still one of my favourites<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.02.07.tubes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I also explored the salmon bomber on tube, making a lot of mess in my tying room<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.02.06.bombers\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We are now in february this year and I made some red-tag wet flies<\/a> that I got my pb grayling on later this year<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.02.15.wet_flies\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I built my first rod<\/a><\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.03.17.rod_back\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And at this time I had my big-tube patterns<\/a> going in a good direction:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.03.09.tube_green_highlander_family\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And I started filling up my barbless box with CDC&Deer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.03.03.dry_side\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In march I partcipated in a caenis swap with some small #30<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.03.11.caenis_family\"<\/a>And went back to do some templedog comet<\/a> on different hooks and tube:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.04.03.comets\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I got my first Cod<\/a> on fly the 30th of march:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.03.30.fishing_cod1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Exploited a dustbroom to get some parachutes<\/a>:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.04.21.dust_broom_all\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The first shrimp<\/a>:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.05.11.shrimp\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Got some very nice dries going:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.05.18.more_microdun\"<\/a><\/p>\n

that have a great profile<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.05.17.microdun_front\"<\/a>It was now june, and I tied up a lot<\/a> for the big north-norway trip I had this summer:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.06.29.yellow_parachute\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Around this time I also experimented with my first classic salmon<\/a>:
\n\"dryfly.me.2014.06.18.classic_single\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The first vaskebj\u00f8rn<\/a> appeared in August (it was a lot of seatrout flies this autumn):<\/p>\n

\"dryfly.me.2014.08.06.vaskebjorn\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Did some awsome<\/a>\u00a0looking doubles<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"2014.08.25.double_silver\"<\/a>Before I started tying up for my autumn trip with a lot<\/a> of<\/a> dry<\/a> barbless<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"2014.08.31.dryfly.me.dyret\"<\/a><\/p>\n

At the end of August I also tied up my first couple<\/a> of Bergmans:
\n\"2014.0830.dryfly.me.bergman_babcock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then it was time to try out salmon on the fly for the first time, but all I got was this pike<\/a>:
\n\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

But Rena delivered in September, and I got a grayling that crossed the 1kg mark:
\n\"OLYMPUS<\/a><\/p>\n

Then it was back to Vaskebj\u00f8rn and more variations of the Magnus<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"2014.09.30.dryfly.me.more_rusty_magnus\"<\/a>Some rabbit<\/a> skins came my way that I’m starting to use, and lately I have done some spey style<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2014.10.26.dryfly.me.spey\"<\/a>some big carrie-stevens like streamers<\/p>\n

\"2014.10.30.dryfly.me.mickey_ghost_together\"<\/a><\/p>\n

and finally some more<\/a> Magnus<\/a><\/p>\n

\"2014.11.01.dryfly.me.polar_magnus\"<\/a>As you can see it has been a long 18 months where I have explored a lot<\/em> of different styles and sizes,\u00a0it has been great fun, and I’m looking forward to more exploring and weird experiments over the winter and the next years!<\/p>\n

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