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What tools do you actually need?

The tools needed to start tying flies is the most expensive part of your beginning stages of tying flies.

Alfred Ronalds’ The Fly-fisher’s Entomology

Don’t let the title trick you. This book is about much more than studying insects.

Biot Midge

Biot Midge Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 18-24 TMC 2487

Harrop's Captive Dun

Harrop's Captive Dun Fly Tying Recipe (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: #16-18 Tiemco 100

Blue Devil - Dressed Irons

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Blue Devil.

RAW CF Baitfish

Baitfishpatterns is the key for getting in touch with the big predators lurking in the water, but when tying big streamers you often end up with a heavy and compact fly.

Alphonse Island

In this film, we explore the flats of Alphonse Island in pursuit of permit, giant trevally, bonefish, triggerfish, and batfish.

CDC Para Emerger

Here is an early CDC parachute emerger pattern using CDC in a dubbing loop.

CDC May Fly

Materials Used: Hook- Kamasan B170 size 10 Thread- Uni 8/0 Olive Tail- Coq De Leon fibres Body- CDC feather dyed olive dun Wing- Beige CDC

Brown Matuka

Fly fishing involves trying to imitate the fish's food on a hook, using wire, feather and hair. Many times it is about small insects in different stages, which are the main food for many fish.

Pat's Rubber Leg Stone

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Pat's Rubber Leg Stone.

Esmeralda

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Esmeralda Wet Fly.

Can be Seen from Space

Hi again. Can it be seen from SPACE? 🤔😉 Try this one for SEA TROUT fishing during winter 🤛🏻🎣

I updated my book database

My fishing book register needed an update – and the registration of a lot of books

Getting started with bonefish

It’s one of the most exciting and intense fishing experiences you’ll find, and here’s how to get started

The Maximum Code - Vol. 1 - Renaelva

The Rena in Hedmark, Norway, has always been a well-known and productive destination for grayling and trout fishing.

Mini Jigged Wooly Bugger

Small streamers like this Mini Jigged Wooly Bugger are some of the best flies to fish for trout with in the winter time. Especially if you make them extra heavy.

Buzzer Chironomid Wet Emerger

Materials Used: Hook- Kamasan B100 size 12 Thread- Uni 8/0 Black Rib- Silver tinsel Body- Black goose Underwings- Pearl tinsel Wings- Blu dun cock hackles

Ice Monkey

A full description and film of this "Ice" Monkey. Spring colours combined with the Monkey pattern on a 14mm brass T-Tube / Flange shrimp tube.

Bucky's Midge Cluster

Bucky’s Midge Cluster Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 18-24 TMC 2488

Hemingway Caddis

Hemingway Caddis Fly Tying Recipe (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 14-20 TMC SPBL100 or TMC 100

Tied Down Caddis

Tied Down Caddis Fly Tying Recipe (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 14-20 TMC 100SPBL

Posh Tosh

Using a Good Sub for Golden Pheasant Crest and Tying a Posh Tosh.

Deer Hair Bomb

This pattern is a workaround for waters where boobies, FABs or foam flies are banned but you still want to fish a buoyant fly near the bottom and if you make sure you fish responsibly and keep in

Pink Beauty

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Pink Beauty.

The Frugal Fly-Tyer

I'm sometimes surprised how much material is wasted when people tie flies. Here are some tips on saving

Hi-Vis Dynamite Harry

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Brown/blue Ragworm

Hi there Ragworm season is soon here and better be ready. This one is quite easy and lifelike. Give it a try and a like. Tight lines, Christian Krog

Simple Mayfly Nymph

Step by Step showing you how to tie a Simple Mayfly Nymph.

Bürzelpalmer - CDC Palmer

Gerhard Laible is a German fly tier who wrote the first book fully on CDC in 1993 called CDC Flies. He is famous for using a dubbing loop, "paper clips" to tie in CDC.

Pat's Rubber Legs

Pats rubber legs are probably the most common stonefly nymph fly ever created. They are in almost every fly shop across America, and for good reason.

Jujubee Adult

Jujubee Adult Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 18-24 TMC 2487

Duranglers Peacock Caddis

Durangler’s Peacock Caddis Fly Tying Recipe (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store) Hook: 14-20 TMC SPBL100 or TMC 100

Dry fly smallmouth

Welcome to the final Michigan Smallmouth episode. After fishing the Hex Hatch and a day of hunting trophy bass on streamers, we turn our attention to topwater.

Lady Merton

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Lady Merton Wet Fly.

Charles E. Wheeler

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Charles E. Wheeler.

Blue Dun Hackle

The Blue Dun Hackle is a classic, subtle pattern for trout and grayling, mimicking emerging mayflies, especially Blue-Winged Olives (BWOs) or Iron Blue Duns, using bluish-grey or dun-colored soft h

Classic Steelhead Flies

The story of a long lasting love for classic steelhead flies – and some flies that illustrate why the love is still there

Pink Winter Fly

Hi there This time another winter fly for you. A pink shrimp.

F-Sedge

Marjan Fratnik CDC Caddis Pattern. Arguably the most famous CDC fly is the F-Fly ... and for good reason. But ... I already did a video on that fly long ago.

It's Amazing What You Can Tye With Just The Waste

In this video I 'm using the waste from tying CDC dry flies to tye small nymphs..

Biot BWO Nymph

Step by Step showing you how to tie a Biot BWO Nymph.

River Trout Streamer Fishing

Some people may think that fishing large streamers for river trout is a US thing. This excellent book tells the European side of that story. River Trout Streamer Fishing

UV Peacock Walt’s Worm

The classic Walt’s Worm is already a simple and effective nymph, but this version adds two important upgrades: UV Peacock Ribbing for extra visibility and a natural squirrel thorax for more movemen

POP Zonker

Pink, purple and orange are successful colors for cold and colored water and especially for steelheads the colors are true classics.

Foamless Floating Blob

FABs and boobies are deadly winter options on lochs and lakes everywhere, but unfortunately some waters ban them due to deep hooking issues caused by negligent fishing.

Ray Charles Scud

The Ray Charles Scud is one of my favorite flies to fish in the winter.

Jelly Juicy Nymph

Here is a small and simple fly — easy to tie and incredibly effective during late autumn and winter.

A24 Mojo Jig Nymph

At the beginning of the season, the most important thing is to offer trout a truly effective fly — one with a natural, universal colour that matches the insects found in early spring.

Willie Gunn

Best Salmon Fly In Your Box the Willie Gunn Materials Used;

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