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2017
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What is a Waddington Shank?

Fly Tying Tip for Tying Intruder Flies and Big Streamers

Grey & Black Mayfly

Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Red Tag, Red Holographic Tinsel Tail, Dyed Black Pheasant Tail Rib, Silver Tinsel

Euro Nymphing vs Indicator Nymphing

Devin Olsen: "I was once a dyed in the wool suspension/strike indicator nymph fisherman. You couldn’t convince me there was a better way of catching numbers of fish on most trout rivers.

CP's Body Quill Baetis Nymph

Black and Yellow Tube Fly

Black and Yellow tube fly tied onto the Eumer's 22m teardrop brass tube with nutria and Arctic fox wing.

Hatching Mayfly Nymph

A pattern to represent the larger burrowing mayfly nymphs when hatching.

2016 Fish Reel

Over the course of a year, you learn a lot. You gather knowledge through your experiences and the people you meet.

CdC Wasp

A little black and yellow CdC wasp made with nothing but Cdc and some floss. Semi realistic and floats all day, when the wasps die in late summer early autumn this pattern is a must.

Bunny Bugger

A super simple bugger technique using zonker or cross cut strips that only takes a few minutes to tie.

Make Your Own Squirrel Dubbing

Learn an easy way to cut and mix squirrel fur to make some awesome dubbing! -- Subscribe for more tutorials and gear reviews: http://goo.gl/rk1v29

Fat Head Squishy Streamer - American Shad

As the last two Fat Head Squishy Streamers moved well in the water, this one will also. They are great for doing a sort of walk the dog action, and a semi suspending nature.

Chuck Furimsky's Turbo Tail

In this fly tying tutorial, Chuck Furimsky is our guest tyer and shares his Turbo Tail pattern.

Ernie Smith

The Ernie Smith Wet Fly Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail Golden Pheasant Tippet dyed Hot Orange

Finally Landed a Trout on the San Juan River!

If you haven't ever fly fished the quality waters on the San Juan River in New Mexico, you are missing out. Trout are everywhere, and its difficult not to hook a few.

Haynes Fly Fishing Manual

The publisher Haynes is probably best known for their car repair manuals, but also has instruction manuals for many other things, fly fishing included

Big Intruders

Big Intruders For Kings and Winter Steelhead Fair Warning, this is a long one.

Megalolipop

We all have favorites, this is ours. The true go-to. It's the first and last pattern on our lines for damn near every trip out.

Schmidtinator

A custom request turned standard issue.The Schmidtinator is a slight mash up on the megalolipop HD but tweaked for big gold fish instead of big silver fish.

PT aggressive violet

Olive Dynamite Harry

This is a Jorgen Danielsson of Sweden Fly Pattern... Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Czech Nymph/Emerger size 16 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Olive

Chasing Tail...

A quick weekend respite from the terrible weather we've been having in Wellington this summer.

Clouser Minnow

Ryan ties a slight twist on the popular Clouser Deep Minnow pattern. This is one of our favorite warmwater fly patterns - it's extremely durable, easy to tie, and it catches a lot of fish!

Palomino & Partridge Midge

A midge with a twist. This little dry midge is equiped with a buggy partridge parachute hackle that gives it a spider quality. A great little river pattern.

Double Deceiver Articulated Streamer

Step by step instructions for a variation on the double deceiver. A modern classic, this fly will catch any predatory fish, just adjust the size to suit. Materials Used

Redfin on cane

Fly fishing for Redfin perch in Australia's South West

Torrence's Carp Caller

In this instructional fly tying video Tony Torrence demonstrates how to tie his Carp Caller carp fly.

Tungsten Bead Caddis Larva

Step by step instructions for a simple but effective nymph pattern that works for trout, grayling and other species too. Adjust the size and weight to suit where your fishing.

Polish Pheasant Tail

Step by step instructions for a highly effective variation on the pheasant tail nymph in the Polish style.

Mayfly Nymph

Step by step instructions for a basic mayfly nymph imitation. This is a generic upwing pattern and the size and color can be adjusted to suit the species you wish to imitate.

Studdler

Guest tier, George Marshall, shows us how to tie one of his beautiful Steelhead Muddlers http://shop.flyshopnw.com

Grand Cascapedia Atlantic Salmon

Fly fishing for Atlantic salmon on the Grand Cascapedia River, Gaspé, Quebec. For more, visit: www.newenglandonthefly.com

Klink May Fly

Fly Tying Klink May Fly

Elk Hair Caddis

Fast and simple elk hair caddis, you can easily make different variants of this fly. Material list: hook, kamasan b400 #12 hackle, hoffman dry fly saddle blue dun

Articulated Soft Hackle

Billings resident Robert Cox ties his Articulated Soft Hackle fly pattern.

Redfish Ritalin & Marsh Critter

Buy the Redfish Ritalin DIY Materials Kit from 239Flies - https://239flies.com/collections/fl

CDC Tabou Caddis Emerger

Materials Used; Hook, Curved Nymph size 12 Thread, UTC-70 Tan Tail, Light-Cinnamon CDC Rib, Clear Strong Stretchy size 0.8 Body, Light Cinnamon CDC Dubbing

Partridge Caddis Emerger

A real quick and simple pattern that works wonders under caddis hatches, pulled long and slow just under the surface.

Choosing the Right Fly Tying Vise

We get a lot of questions from people who are just getting into fly tying about what kind of vise they should purchase, and whether or not they need all the bells and whistles of a high dollar rota

Perch Zonker

Perch zonker pattern

Composite Rabbit

Here's a really quick video that outlines how Mike McGovney ties a composite loop rabbit strip fly.

Foam beetle V2

This video shows how to tie the this great dry trout fly:

Squirrel Sculpin

This goby/sculpin streamer was designed for sea trout fishing in saltwater - primarily the brackish danish fjords - that has large populations of sculpins.

Finn Racoon Hohbo Spey

Using Finn Raccoon instead of marabou to increase the life of your flies in freezing temps

Orange Heron Intruder

A variation of the Orange Heron spey fly and the Intruder. Tied on a 45mm waddington shank, this is an unweighted fly to be swung for Steelhead.

Bouncing Bomb Fly

Join Ben Bangham and Lewis from Experience Fishing and learn how to tie a Bouncing Bomb Fly and then take it to Millets Farm Lakes to give it a go.

Keeled Jerk

I give a step by step instruction on my Keeled Jerk fly, inspired by Samual Looper of Looper's flies Fur Burger and Andreas Anderssons CF Minnow.

Greenland

Short Video Project for Solid Adventures. Drone and Timelaps: Stephan Dombaj Editing: Fly Fishing Nation 2nd Camera: Rickard Sjöberg

Bonefish Days: Aitutaki

A couple of troutbums got lost in the tropics.. Where trout strike is banned and the fish are strong and angry. Watch our recap from a two week trip to the wonderful atoll of Aitutaki

Expedition Taimen

Late autumn of 2015 we traveled to remote Russian wilderness for taimen fishing and film making for the first time. We had kinda plan and scenery prepared before we left.

Turkey Streamer Fly

I shot a turkey this season, and I plucked all the feathers and used them for this fly. Its an awesome little streamer with lots of movement. Great for trout on a stream or river.

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