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2017
Date Title Body Image

How Does a Trout Catch a Fly?

Marinaro's "Edge of the Window Theory"

Olympic Peninsula Steelhead

Fly fishing for the mighty steelhead is not always pretty, and this issue’s T-Motion theater illustrates the very real deal in the search for Pacific Northwest steelies.

Bibio Perdigon

Step by step instructions for an effective perdigon variation. These little nymphs are highly effective for both trout and grayling and well worth their place in any nymph box.

MRI Dubbing Goby

Small goby/sculpin imitation tied by Mathias Rosenmejer Ibsen. Super simple, an easy tie - and deadly when sea trout (sea run brown) are prowling the sandy or muddy flats for sculpins.

Muskin's Black Midge Pupa

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Rib, Siver Wire Body, Dyed Black Pheasant Tail

MSU Foam Hopper

The MSU Foam Hopper can be fished as both a hooper and a caddis depending on the size and color you choose to tie it in.

Paul's BMF

Captain Paul Nocifora's fly of choice. The B-M-F is a great snook and redfish fly.

Trout Nugget XL

I give a step by step tutorial on my Trout Nugget XL. This is an articulated zonker pattern perfect for chasing trout and bass on the fly.

Phantom Zonker

This is a cold water - bright day pattern that has taken a whole load of sea trout in salt water for me.

Mickey Finn

Without a doubt one of the classic bucktails, an easy pattern to tie, but its seldom that you see it tied well!

JC's Skunk Pygmy Sculpin

Detailed instructions for tying JC's Skunk Pygmy Sculpin.

Lowrider Sculpin

Doug Mcknight tying his Lowrider Sculpin fly pattern.

Cocky-Spinner Variant

Comparadun style Dry Fly

Deer Hair Daddy

This deer hair technique shows you how to make easy elongated bodies with deer hair perfect for crane flies, hoppers and stone flies.

CDC Yellow Owl

Another Successful Pattern, Hook = Size 12 , B100 Thread = Fluro Yellow UT70 Ribs = Black Wire 0.1mm Golden Olive CDC

Kraft's Kreelex

In this video, guide Dave Gamet ties up one of our favorite streamers, the Kraft's Kreelex. This flashy fly works just about everywhere we've tried it, in dirty water and clear water alike!

Rainbow Micro Glint Perdigon River Nymph

An Effective River Pattern

Tungsten Hot Bead Pine Squirrel Leech

Ryan shows you how to tie a simple but incredibly effective pattern, the Hot Head Pine Squirrel Leech.

Bug Gut Scud

Guide Dave Gamet ties his Bug Gut Scud. This is an innovative pattern that gives you a different look than the traditional scud-back style scud.

Caddis Larva

A successful pattern for the fast stream

Mil Spec Mayfly Cripple

Update: Don't use the Chartpak marker with this fly... It has too much ink and will bleed over time. You are much better off with a sharpie or a Prismacolor marker. ~ Cheech

Pearl'n'Partridge

This is a great caddis imitation and this works very well for all trout grayling a great pattern for brook trout, rainbow, char, brown trout, cutthroat and all the other.

Grey Goose Nymph

Frank Sawyer's grey goose nymph that he developed for mayfly nymph feeding trout and grayling in Swedish Lapland.

Stimulator

A great attractor pattern with huge amounts of float-ability.This well dressed pattern is for fishing rough fast flowing water, where it can be seen easily at distance and it floats like a cork.

Mega Prince

The Mega Prince is a great fly developed by Dan Delekta. The Mega Prince is the perfect high water fly and imitates a buggy stonefly nymph.

Detached deer hair body mayfly

Another deer hair tutorial this time for a detached body. This body technique can be used for all types of detached bodies, daddy's, midges, caddis flies etc.

Jari's Tube Baitfish

This simple hollow tied baitfish will be great for a lot of different species, in saltwater as well as in freshwater.

Seeing Red 2

A short video based on fly fishing the Lower Laguna Madre. Questions , feel free to leave a comment or e-mail. Special thanks to SAGE FLY FISHING, RIO FLY LINES & REDINGTON.

Sculpin Streamer

Whitlock sculpin variation fly tying instructions

The Danish Fly Festival 2017

If you reside in Denmark, northern Germany or southern Sweden, this is an event you should mark in your calendar

Turck's Tarantula

Turck's Tarantula (Guy Turck) - an attractor fly.

Shrimp/crawfish

The importance of crustaceans in the diet of fresh or saltwater fish is well known.

How to Clean a Fly Reel | Vintage Click and Pawl Reel

A detailed step by step of how to break down, clean, service, and reassemble a vintage fly reel. For this example I used a 1950s Hardy Perfect 3 7/8 fly reel.

Pheasant Tail Soft Hackle

Tying a Pheasant Tail Soft Hackle. Tied for the third round of the FF&FT League 2016/17.

Nature Coast Dreaming

Fly fishing the beautiful Nature Coast of FloridaCapt. John RohanSong: Atone by SLO

Deer Hair Suspeneder Midge

The second technique for tying a deer hair parachute hackle that will float all day long and then some.

Olive quill nymph

Dubbing brushes: Craft fur

This video is a quick "how to" on making EP style craft fur brushes.

Pike Finder Popper

For more info see http://www.hedroninc.com/products

Silicone Sand Eel

A ultra quick realistic sand eel pattern made from the silicone legs of a deep sea muppet. Great little salt water pattern that fishes extremely well!

Banana Tube Fly (variant)

Fly tying an effective tube fly.

Flashy Bugger

Wooly buggers are probably one of the most popular and versatile flies anywhere you fish. From California to Colorado to New York, and not just USA, but other countries as well.

Episode 2 - Fly Fishing 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.

Coastbound

Fly fishing: Coastbound

Deer Hair Gobi

This little streamer has proven extremely effective in salt water for sea trout in the spring.

Perch Pike Fly

Demo today on the bank

Deer Hair Parachute

Another different deer hair technique, this time showing you how to tie a parachute hackle made of deer hair.

Polar Opposites: South

Part Two of our Polar Opposite series was quite the opposite to part one; North.

Polar Opposites: North

The boys at Adipose Fly Fishing productions are proud to present Part one the short video series Polar Opposites.

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