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2017
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String Leech

String Leech tied as a tube fly - and featuring a cool little detail allowing the small trailer hook to stay close to the undulating zonker strip. For trout, salmon, steelhead and other predators.

Galloup's Sex Dungeon

Kelly Galloup's Sex Dungeon has been a big fish hunting fly from day one. This is my go to streamer pattern because of the motion and it flat out catches fish!

Floating the Animas

The Animas river is a tough river, but when you catch fish, they are good sized and energetic fish!

Pink Shrimp

Join our friend and England Youth International, Ben Beckwith, as he selects and ties his fly of the month for September 2017 - the Pink Shrimp.

Heavy Hackle One Feather

Early in our tying career we often had to use 4 or more India cape feathers to produce a heavily hackled dry fly.

Poly wing midge

An quick and effective hatching midge pattern that has saved the day many a time for me, just change the colour and size to match the hatch.

Smith's Butt Monkey

This is the original Butt Monkey streamer pattern designed by Scott Smith. It has a ton of motion for a single hooked fly, and has proven to be a big fish magnet.

Koz's Steelhead Kandy

Koz's Steelhead Kandy is a simple caddis pupa that is made from some pony bead lacing I got from the local craft store.

Yet another foam bug

Extended body foam bug. Simple to tie, short materials list: 2mm black and yellow foam, 3mm black foam, some krystal flash and flashabou dubbing.

Ian's Brass Ass

Detailed instructions for tying Ian's Brass Ass.

Evening Hair Wings

If your divided hair wings are not always evenly divided then this VERY simple tip from the Beattys is for you. It is Tip #2 originally published in Fly Tyer magazine.

Woodcock & Hare's Lug Spider

Materials Used; Hook Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Yellow Tag and Rib, Small Flat Gold Tinsel Body, Dyed Yellow Hare's Lug

Galloup's Silk Kitty

This is another great streamer pattern from Kelly Galloup. This fly combines bulk and motion with the marabou overwings and the hackle stem lateral lines.

MacKenzie Cascade

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Magni or Patriot Gold Double Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tag, Oval Gold Tinsel

Glitter Shrimp

The Glitter Shrimp is an old Danish fly pattern that's been used for fishing the winter seatrout.

Wiggle Wagon V2 0

An articulated fly with a wiggle tail

Double Bunny Clouser Minnow

The clouser minnow is one of the most effective and popular streamers ever made. With any popular fly, there comes variations of it.

Beaver Caddis

The fur equivalent of CdC. A real simple pattern all tied with only one 5 cm strip of beaver fur spun in a dubbing loop!

Animas River Wading

If you remember a few weeks back, I went fishing the San Juan River with Fresh Salt Fishing, and we had a great time! We caught many Brown Trout, and one was really really large!

Using Dubbing Wax

Often fly tiers don't use dubbing wax because they have not had good results doing so. This short tutorial might provide a different approach to the dubbing-with-wax process.

Cottus Gobi Sculpin

The sculpin or bullhead as they are also known have a large flat head, big fins and a tapering body and are a favourite food of big trout.

The Trude Hackle

Tips #1- The Hill. This is the first Tips & Tricks Gretchen & Al Beatty published in Fly Tyer magazine a few years ago.

Gary Lafontaine Caddis Pupa (Variant)

Materials Used; Hook, TMC 2487 size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Cahill Trailing Shuck and Overbody, Tan Antron/Yarn Back, 1/8 Scud Back Brown from Hareline

Peacock Caddis

Detailed instructions for tying a Peacock Caddis.

X Caddis

The X-Caddis comes from Yellowstone fishing guru Craig Matthews. Craig is the guy who brought us the Sparkle Dun and a host of other effective patterns, trademarked by their simplicity.

Nocturnal Eel

A semi realistic eel pattern for night fishing. Perfect for salt water sea trout and stripped bass that are feeding on sand eels.

Damsel Stalking Bug

This extremly animated nymph is excellent when stalking larger trout or even used as an attractor or searching pattern when nothing is going on in the surface.

True North Vol. 2 - teaser

Teaser for our upcoming film "True North Vol. 2"

Swung Fuzz

I give a step by step instruction on tying my Swung Fuzz - wiggle tail swing streamer.

Bradshaw's Fancy

Another classic, this time a north country grayling fly that has produced for thousands of fly fishermen and will continue to do so for thousands more. If one red tag works, why not have two!

Frances Plug

Behind the somewhat strange name hides a somewhat strange fly originated by Danish salmon guide Marc Skovby. An good looking salmon tube fly that's both easy to tie and very efficient.

Alphlexo Crab

Step by step instructions for the famous Alphlexo Crab. Tie these in various sizes and colours to suit your target species, they work for permit, bones, trevally and others.

How to catch big searun trout on dryflies

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Superfloss Bloodworm

You can fish lakes, lochs, and ponds with the ultimate confidence with a weighted bloodworm.

Jerry French's Steelhead Sculpin

MATERIALS: Shank 25mm Med Dumbell Eyes Loop #50 Braid Micro Rabbit Polar Chenille Grizzly Flutter Legs

Conor McGregor

Conor McGregor Octopus. An Irish wet fly.

Peacock Bass and Largemouth Bass in South Florida

Fly fishing for peacock bass in south florida using my new flies to watch all my videos go to my youtube channel DPCFishing

Baitfish Rattle

Baitfish Rattle freshwater flie for all fish nice move with a rattle sound

Matt's Gnat

A little Griffith's variant that uses snow shoe rabbit instead of the traditional grizzle hackle. A tad more robust that the original but fishes just as well.

KeHe & Grouse

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail, Golden Pheasant Tippet and Red Wool Rib, Fine Copper Wire Body, Peacock Herl

Traditional Baby Brookie Streamer

This small streamer has a bit of a background. I went fishing up in a high sierra lake, and threw every single fly I had in my box at the fish.

Wonder Wing Caddis

A simple tie for a very buggy large October caddis that floats like a cork with a wonderful wing.

General Practitioner

The General Practitioner is a staple fly pattern for salmon and steelhead anglers who fish the west coast PNW rivers. The fly was designed by English angler Col.

Yellow Mayfly Dun

This yellow mayfly dun tutorial has a simple technique I developed for making the wally wings process quick and simple!

A Rio Revuelto. Official Trailer 2

The Chilean Patagonia continues under constant threat of companies that seek their destruction to profit regardless of its future consequences, this production seeks to make known the deepest corne

Tying a Paraloop hackle

Another dry fly hackle tutorial this time the paraloop technique. Although I don't use this hackle much its a great choice for emerger patterns.

Fly Fishing in the Anthropocene

A film by Peter Christensen and Rolf Nylinder.

Tying the perfect parachute hackle

Dry fly hackle tutorial # 2 parachute perfect.

Hot Fuzz

I give a step by step instruction on tying my Hot Fuzz articulated streamer pattern.

KC's Woodchuck Nymph

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