Emergers

Join Signature Tyer Charlie Craven as he ties and talks about the Mole Fly

"Big flies big fish" is not always correct, sometimes even the largest trout can be selective on micro-flies such as mosquitoes and caenis.

All materials are natural and beautiful to tie with. Brown hackle for the tail, grizzly hackle, elk hair and peccary for the body.

One of John Goddard's lesser known but extremely effective patterns.

Tying and fishing a great dry fly for fast flowing riffles. Tied with a poly-yarn loop wing and legs the Tripod Emerger has three points of buoyancy to keep it afloat in fast water.

A versatile lightly weighted spider pattern.

The shuttlecock is one of the most popular still water dry flies with good reason.

A superb little CDC generic mayfly emerger that ticks all the boxes when the hatch is on. Tied in most sizes and colour combinations this is one of my top trout flies. Visit my site

One of the legacy patterns from the late Andre Puyans. An ultra simple may fly emerger that only requires basic skill and materials.

One of my favorite Autumn patterns to fish. A soft hackle emerger that incorporates some classic materials and a couple of useful techniques.

One of my favourite, works really well till the end of the season.
Hook size 12-14
Thread Black
Post White Floating Yarn
Thorax Black Hare's Ear Dubbing Mix

A versatile pattern for lakes and rivers. Fish the MIDJ with a buzzer underneath on small stillwaters or with a small weighted nymph on the river.

A very simple but yet effective, all CDC emerger that uses a few nice CDC techniques for a super buoyant Hi-Vis emerger.
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Tying and fishing a dry fly that imitates both an emerger and a spinner. An easy to tie dry fly that's great for prospecting the water when no fish are rising.

A Blue Winged Olive emerger fly fishing pattern, which works really well on rivers for trout and grayling when BWOs are hatching.

Thanks go out to Dave Allison for sharing the Film Critic with all of us. This Bob Quigley emerger has fooled a lot of fish over the years, and Dave's techniques and tips are excellent.

Detailed instructions for tying a Sulphur Klinkhamer.

Materials Used;

Without doubt one of my absolute most productive trout & grayling patterns.

Materials Used;
Hooks, Tiemce 2487 BL size 22 and Fulling Mill Short Shank Special size 14
Thread, UTC 70 Yellow Olive
Body, Uni-Mylar Clear

A tried and tested Yellow May emerger fly pattern, which covers the emerging / hatching stage of the Yellow May Dun. It would also cover you for the Sulphur Dun fly hatch.

The RS 2 or Ray's Semblance 2 is, in my humble opinion, one of the best fishing flies ever designed. If you haven't fished with the RS 2, you don't know what you have been missing.

Gary LaFontaine's little emerger that has become a modern classic. This simple technique shows you how to create the gas filled shuck case of an emerging caddis fly to great effect.