Fundamental Fly Tying – part 4: Materials
Words by Gordon van der Spuy Photographs by Leonard Flemming Materials maketh the fly. Most people buy fly tying material the way they do groceries.
Fanie Visagie
Fundamental Fly Tying DVD review
I know Gordon personally, so while enjoying the privilege to write a review about his movie, a step-by-step and informative fly tying DVD called Fundamental
Fundamental fly tying DVD
Most of our readers will know Gordon van der Spuy by now – search ‘Fundamental Fly Tying’ on this site to see some of his articles
Fundamental fly tying – part 3: Thread
By Gordon van der Spuy, photos by Leonard Flemming In the last issue I spoke about hooks. This time I want to tackle thread. Thread
Para RAB
By Gordon van der Spuy The parachute RAB (para RAB in short) must rate as my all-time favourite fly. It is delicate and everything I
Fundamental fly tying – part 2: Hooks
Text by Gordon van der Spuy, photos by Leonard Flemming In my last piece (Tools of the Trade) I spoke about fly tying tools that will
Fundamental Fly Tying – Part 1: Tools of the Trade
By Gordon van der Spuy This is a series of articles that will feature on fly tying made simpler, better, faster… Fly tying, like heart
Skinning Fanie Visagie
By Gordon van der Spuy I dig how things sometimes just happen. A few months ago I was sitting at my pal Nick van Rensburg’s
Fanie’s Zonker
FlyBru and Fanie Visagie (a.k.a., Gordon van der Spuy) recently released the 2nd fly-tying video demonstration of a long series I suspect. Again, Fanie shows some
The Klippies en Kolgaans
I really enjoyed watching this FlyBru production of Gordon van der Spuy (Fanie Visagie) tying a popular Western Cape trout fly; Gordon shares some good fly tying