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Tales of feathers, men and rivers

Gerhard Laible - A CDC Revolution

The Cul de Canard is a fantastic feather indeed! You can do whatever you want with it. When I use it, sometimes, I think of those characters who made...

Scala Guido
— March 2023 — 824 views

Kebari (Ke-Hari) 毛鉤

Kebari are the artificial flies used in the Japanese fishing technique called Tenkara.  The Japanese word Kebari is composed of "ke" which means feath...

Scala Guido
— January 2023 — 1004 views kebari tenkara

Knotted Tapered Leader

A good leader is one of the most important part of our fly fishing tackle, a fact too often underestimated. We actually all need a good recipe for a s...

Piscione Antonio
— January 2023 — 1073 views fly fishing how to Knotted Tapered Leader

Tup's Indispensable Variant (Video)

The story of the Tup’s Indispensable fly is more or less well known and we are assuming you are aware of its origin and the meaning of the name. For t...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— February 2022 — 1182 views classic fly fly fishing fly tying

Fly Display Boxes

Flies are the peak of the craft in fly fishing, something logically indispensable for the fishing action. Without flies you don’t have fly fishing at ...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— January 2021 — 3169 views

Savinja, the river of fairy tales

There is a mountain  glacial  valley in the Slovenian  Solčavsko region and its upper part is named Logarska Dolina, a magical and breathtaking plac...

Generali Bruno
— November 2020 — 8221 views brown trout fly fishing fly fishing destination fly fishing gear greyling hucho slovenia

SBS Red Quill - Art Flick's Fly

** Although Art Flick may not have been the first to use stripped hackle quill on dry flies, he certainly popularized it in his Red Quill. For his ...

Oreglini Umberto
— November 2020 — 3975 views

Theodore Gordon

Angling. Somebody, with a pinch of humor, described it as trying to catch, using the best technology can offer, a living being with a brain the size...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— November 2020 — 4143 views Art flick Catskill Flies Catskill Style Flies classic fly fishing Dry fly fly tying history of fly fishing Quill Gordon Roy Steenrod Rube Cross Theodore Gordron Walt Dette Winnie Dette

The Mentor

The rock was imposing, in its majestic strength. It earned the respect of the river withstanding the rampaging floods, the erosion of time and the c...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— October 2020 — 3132 views

John Atherton, Monet and the Coq de Leòn

The American fly tier *John Atherthon*, in the mid-fifties of the last century, became known for his fly tying theories in which he combined his pas...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— March 2020 — 3172 views classic fly classic fly fishing coq de leòn fly fishing fly tying fly tying bench history of fly fishing natural materials silk

Silk threads and flosses, the classic fly tier tools

When we were tying the flies for the first three volumes of the *William Blacker* book, we ran into a tangle of trouble with tying silks and threads...

Andrew Herd
— March 2020 — 6433 views au ver a soie classic fly classic fly fishing classic salmon fly fly tying fly tying tools history of fly fishing silk

Brook and River Trouting, Edmonds and Lee

Edmonds'* and  Lee* 's  Brook   and River Trouting  of 1916 is more or less the last word on North Country flies from its era. Although the book’s c...

Andrew Herd
— March 2020 — 4513 views classic fly classic fly fishing fly fishing fly tying fly tying bench history of fly fishing natural materials north country flies silk

Cortland on the hunt: the home team

Cortland Line Company has been on the scene in various forms for over 100 years. Founded by a businessman and avid angler named Ray Smith*  in 1915...

Genova Cosmo
— February 2020 — 3765 views cortland fly fishing fly fishing gear fly rods history of fly fishing silk fly line

Professional fly tiers of the past

His hands moved swiftly around that metallic hook, for quite some time, maybe hours. With confident gestures, they wrapped silks, coloured threads a...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— February 2020 — 11433 views catskills classic fly classic fly fishing fly fishing fly tying history of fly fishing

The English chalk streams

It is all too easy to picture Britain as being filled with tweed-clad anglers casting to impossibly difficult wild brown trout on gin-clear chalk st...

Andrew Herd
— February 2020 — 4727 views chalk stream classic fly classic fly fishing fly fishing fly fishing destination history of fly fishing

The Astorga Manuscript A.D. 1624

Looking for inspiration to start writing this article, the figurative image of the Trojan horse comes to my mind. That gadget disguised as an offeri...

— February 2020 — 5375 views classic fly classic fly fishing coq de leòn fly tying history of fly fishing

Martie Chamois 98

We love simple flies, neat, clean and made with a limited number of materials. Simplicity is often the key to success and in fly tying it can turns ...

Van Den Brand Martie
— February 2020 — 4564 views chamois fly tying fly tying bench natural materials

The North Country Method

If you read anything at all about fly fishing in Britain, you will have come across references to the *North Country method*, which most writers des...

Andrew Herd
— January 2020 — 13785 views classic fly classic fly fishing fly tying history of fly fishing natural materials north country flies

Silk fly line myth and reality

Talking about silk fly lines today makes you think of those old-time trout fishing stories, long cast, silent rivers, wild nature, ...

Stefano Ferri
— November 2019 — 10482 views au ver a soie bamboo rods classic fly fishing silk fly line

Two heads are better than one

There is a proverb that is believed to be recorded almost half millennium ago, *two heads are better than one*.   The meaning is that two peo...

Calzolari Alberto 54
— October 2019 — 8045 views classic fly classic salmon fly cottarelli fly tying fly tying bench fly tying tools t-rex

Who We Are

There were two shops from bygone days that fed our dreams of fishing and flies, the Jim Deren’s Angler’s Roost in New York City and the magic shop of William Blacker at the 54 of Dean Street in London. Both of them were inspiring us, Jim’s wisdom and practicality, William’s quality and perfection. To tell the truth, old Bill inspired us the name of our little shop too.

Even though you’re not walking in New York or London, the idea you’ll find here is the same that inspired those two unique shops. You won’t loose yourself among thousand of products, but you’ll find the right ones, the ones we have chosen and selected for you, the good, trustable ones.

When you enter our little shop you already know what you’ll find, it will be the first step to a small journey.

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