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Light Olive Klinkhamer

Materials Used: Hook- Partridge Klinkhamer hook size 14 Thread- Uni 8/0 Black Post- Blob & Buzzer Parapost Yellow Hackle- Hoffman badger dry fly

Dark Olive

Materials Used: Hook- Kamasan B175 size 14 Thread- Uni 8/0 Olive Tail- Sooty olive cock hackle fibres Body- Stripped peacock eye quill

Golden Purple Spey

Materials Used: Hook- TG Salmon Iron size 1/0 Thread- Uni 8/0 white and then Uni 8/0 Black for the head Tag- Gold tinsel Rib- Oval gold tinsel

CDC Caddis

Dyed CDC Feathers and tying a small CDC Elk Hair Caddis Fly.. Materials Used;

Brush Fly

Brush flies are a great option when you want a quick and simple baitfish that will stand up to the toothiest of fish.

March Brown Emerger

A Deadly Early-Season Trout Fly Materials Used: Hook- Partridge Caddis K14A Emerger size 12 Thread- Uni 8/0 Dark Brown Wing- Roe deer Tail- Coq de Leon

Olive Grunter

Materials Used: Hook- Fulling Mill Short Shank special size 10 Thread- Uni 8/0 black Wing- Three CDC plumes dyed blue dun Tag- Medium opal mirage tinsel

Knauri Killer

The ONE Streamer Pattern That Changed My Fishing Forever

Chasing Giant Trout in New Zealand

3-Week Solo Fly Fishing Road Trip

Blue Charm

Classic Atlantic Salmon Fly Materials Used: Hook- Partridge Patriot Single size 8 Thread- Uni 8/0 Black Tag & Rib- Gold oval tinsel Tail- GP Crest feather

Silver Wilkinson Spey

Materials Used: Hook- 3/0 TG Salmon Iron Tag & Rib- Oval silver tinsel Tail- GP Tippet fibres Body- Silver Tinsel Body hackles- Magenta and blue cock hackles

Bucktail Tips & Tricks

Do you want to know more about one of the most popular flytying materials - the bucktail - and learn from one of the very best?

Homebrew Rod Drying Fixture

While rebuilding a bamboo fly rod, Steve Allen made a simple, inexpensive rod drying fixture built from readily available parts

Return of the Guide

Return of the Guide is a fly fishing film shot in Patagonia, Argentina, following guide Erik Argotti as he returns to Jurassic Lake — known locally as Lago Strobel — decades after helping establish

Float Trip Through Alaska's Wilderness

For five days, Nicole and I set off by raft into the remote wilderness of Alaska’s Copper River Valley.

Deer Hair Pheasant Tail Emerger

The Deer Hair Pheasant Tail Emerger is an effective trout fly that rides low in the surface film to imitate a struggling mayfly or caddis trapped in its nymphal shuck.

Vespertina CDC Dun

The Vespertina mayfly is one of those delicate insects that always brings a special moment on the water.

Timberland Nymph

Hi guys, As you probably already know, I don’t really like to present flies that I have never used myself:)

Gray Squirrel Zonker Streamer

This streamer is one of my favourites for late-summer and autumn fishing, especially when targeting big trout. It imitates small baitfish that have developed stronger colours during the summer.

Small Baetis Nymph

Hi guys! How are you? Today I want to show you a Baetis imitation, a nymph I like to tie and fish a lot in gin-clear rivers.

Hi-Vis CDC Emerger

Hi guys, today I want to show you how to tie a simple and effective Hi-Vis CDC Emerger.

Danica CDC Euro Nymph

Hi guys,

Running & Gunning

Fly fishing for wild trout in the far north of Scandinavia, 400km above the Arctic Circle.

Small Caddis/Mayfly/Midge Emerger

Materials Used;

How to Tie a Glo Bug

The Glo Bug is one of the simplest and most recognizable egg flies in fly fishing—and it's the perfect pattern to kick off our new egg fly series.

Steenrod's Two Main Patterns

In Darbee's book "Catskill Fly Tier" he references two great Steenrod patterns that were very popular when he was a kid. They were wingless flies with a mix of hackle and - one gray/one tan.

One of those fly shops

Stroud Tackle in San Diego was one of my early “real flyshop” encounters back in 1999. I remember my visit vividly

Foam-Back Spinner

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Shucked Up

Sometimes hatching fails completely and the unfortunate insect is trapped half in and half out of its previous skin. That’s what the Shucked Up is designed to imitate

Toftings Shrimp

95% of the time, there’s a shrimp at the end of my line when I start my seatrout trips in the salt.

Suspender Parachute Hopper Midge

Suspender Parachute Hopper Midge ...

CDC Bubble Emerger Midge/Caddis

CDC Bubble Emerger Midge/Caddis Fly. I would happily say that this is one of the best emerger patterns that you could tie and fish either on lochs and rivers.

Mosaic Diawl Bach

Mosaic Diawl-Bach... Materials Used;

Jigged Pheasant Tail Nymph

Jigged Pheasant Tail Nymph Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links below to purchase the materials from our store)

Nothing Fly and Hooks for Small Flies

The original Nothing fly tyed by Alec Harvey.. Materials Used;

Quick and Easy Crane Daddy Long Legs

Crane Flt Daddy Long Legs Materials Used;

Deer Hair Ant

It's that time of year, that the most important terrestrial is swarming, and no trout fisherman should go without a ant pattern in their box!

Purple Cigar Bomber

To illustrate this technique for tying these iconic Canadian surface lures for salmon and steelhead, I have chosen the Purple Cigar Bomber.

Goddard's Caddis

Although nothing like the original G&H sedge, that John Goddard and Cliff Henry designed, this is my play on a modern variant.

Pheasant Wing Caddis

Deer hair and a Ring neck pheasant church window feather is all that is needed to make this excellent caddis pattern.

Synthetics: Friend or Faux?

Let’s look at a side by side comparison of natural and synthetic materials used to tie the same pattern

Irresistible Variant

This iconic pattern from Joe Messinger was one of the first to show the versatility of deer hair as a fly tying material.

Cased Caddis Larva

A peeping cased caddis larva tied with spun deer hair. The house building caddis larvae are always available and an important food stuff for trout in both still and running water.

Clarke's Deer Hair Pupa

One of my earliest patterns that has worked well for me over the past 30 years. Fish it dry or as an emerger fished with a sinking poly leader.

Extended Body Mayfly

Another pattern from my deer hair book that will be out later this autumn. This time an extended body mayfly that pushes all the right buttons when the larger mayflies are hatching.

Deer Hair Klink

My play on Hans van Klinken's classic. This deer hair klink has a moose mane quill body and a deer hair parachute hackle, is easy to tie and fishes like a dream.

Grey Duster Family - Original, Wired Butt & Dirty Duster

The Grey Duster is one of the great stiff hackle flies that is so good it made author/angler Courtney Williams almost a "one pattern" angler!

Humpy

A good deal of fly tyers, prefer to fish the Humpy rather than tie it, and find the original tying technique, where the over-body (hump) and wings are constructed from one and the same bunch of dee

Elk Hair Scud

One of the most familiar and readily available amphipods on the fishes menu is various species of gammarus, found in large numbers around the shore line of both fresh and salt water.

Hoodlum Streamer

Although verging on the fancy, this streamer was inspired not only by the sparser flat-wing patterns that have proven so effective, not only on North American Stripped bass but also on Scandinavian

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