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Flies fished in the surface

Duck's extended body

Body work: Roger Duckworth shows an innovative and extremely easy technique to make durable extended bodies for mayflies, caddis, and stoneflies, and he shows a way of hackling the dry flies so that the hackle is under the body but above the hook so that it supports the fly more like the natural.
See how it's done here

The Flies that Catch Fish

Review: A mixed bag of very good looking flies with great illustrations and step-by-step tying instructions. A book right after my heart. No-nonsense fishing flies presented in a clear and appetizing fashion with really excellent pictures.
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Find "A New Look at the Grannom" here

A New Look at the Grannom
Find "The Fish & The Fly Q&A" here

The Fish & The Fly Q&A
"The Fish & The Fly 1-3" is found here

The Fish & The Fly 1-3
Read more on "Plu Stiniog"

Plu Stiniog
Find "I’ve Never Met an Idiot on the River" on this page

I've Never Met an Idiot...
Skip to "The CDC & Elk family"

The CDC & Elk family
Go to "The Source - New Zealand"

The Source - New Zealand
Proceed to "Modern fly fishing" here

Modern fly fishing
More about "Mayfly Madness"

Mayfly Madness
Click to see "River Academy"

River Academy
This link takes you to "Minni"

Minni
Proceed to "Unsinkable flies" here

Unsinkable flies
Videos with "Dry Flies - Flies fished in the surface" - More videos
Flyfishing for dry sipping trout
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We went for some days fishing for trout in a river in Norway. We were told that this specific river would have large trout, with the possibility of catching it on the dry fly. We had some incredible days catching trouts on the dry fly. Read more on http://nymfa.no and http://nymfa.no/blogg

White Foam Body Mayfly
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This fly tying video introduces a new dry fly pattern using foam for the body. The White Foam Body Mayfly Dun is easy to tie, easy to see, floats like a cork and fish cannot resist rising to eat it. Foam body dry flies are popular the world over and this fly will surely find its way to the top. Dry fly fishing in the Colorado Rockies is best with a little 4 wt. fly rod, a friend and an incredibly beautiful, comfortable boat ride. Go to http://www.riplips.com

Going back
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Nice stream fishing scenes - Danish speech, but not much
Gallatin River Winter Midge Dry Fly Fishing
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Craig and Phil winter dry fly fishing on the Gallatin River near Bozeman and Big Sky, Montana.
Is This Desire?
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One memorable morning dry fly brown trout fishing in Iceland, summer 2012.
DoD Diaries part I
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This is the first part (1/2) of the DoD Diaries featuring Hans Johansson, Johan Jonsson and Stefan Aagren dry fly fishing in the Scandinavian mountains for trout.

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DoD Diaries part II
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The DoD Diaries features Hans Johansson, Johan Jonsson and Stefan Aagren dry fly fishing in the Scandinavian mountains for trout.
The aim with this video is to show some raw footage of what's going on during our fishing trips. Some scenes may be a bit long but that's the whole idea. It's purpose is to show that we both are struggling to catch fish and that we sometimes are lucky. That's why the title is "Diaries" in order to illustrate a fishing trip as true as possible from what happened and what force that makes us dry fly fishermen become weird.

Dry fly fishing in the snow
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Dry fly fishing in snow.
Skate
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Four buddies hike deep into the wilds of the world's greatest steelheading jurisdiction, British Columbia, to find the ultimate in steelheading action--steelhead taking skated dry flies.
The Hunt :: Salmon fishing
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Dry fly fishing for salmon in remote rivers in Northern Labrador.
Dry Fly Fishing - Utah's Green River
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The ultimate in dry fly fishing on Utah's Green River with Spinner Fall Guide Service! Summer of 2012
The "Dry" Doping Stone
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A generic steelhead dry-fly... this little thing has all the goodness required to get LOTS of grabs!
Thorax Style CDC Blue Winged Olive
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Detailed instructions for tying a Thorax Style CDC Blue Winged Olive.
Yellow Sally Stimlator
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Yellow Sally Stimlator Fly Tying Instructions and Tutorial
Comparadun
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Comparadun Fly Tying Instructions and How To Tie Tutorial
Fly Fishing at Äyskoski, Finland
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Quick edit of me and Risto fishing Äyskoski in Central Finland.
Fly-fishing New Zealand
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Harald from FrontsideFlyfishing dry fly fishing down under! Good brown in the end!
CDC&Elk Flash (opal)
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Hook: Grip 14723BL #14, Thread: Benecchi 12/0, tan, Abdomen: Flashabou strand, opal - wrapped flat over bare shank, Thorax and strands: CDC feather, natural, Wing and head: Mule deer. See more about the CDC&Elk family here.
CDC&Elk
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Hook: Tiemco 102Y #15, Thread: Uni-thread 6/0, brown, Body/'legs': CDC, natural (or color to match a natural), Wing/head: Mule deer, natural See more about the fly in our article.
La Poitou
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Hook : TMC 212 Y, Tail : Moose, Thorax : SLF Dubbing. Wing : CDC fibres & Elk

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 Go to The Dream Stream
The Dream Stream
Seven summers in the North Swedish wilderness is what Thomas Ohman has spent to get hours of recordings. Enough to tell his story. He climbed lots of obstacles to get the casts, fights and atmosphere framed in 16:9 format, but was it worth the effort?
  
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Chuck's FlutterStone
Fly fishing guide Charles Robinton has put some serious trial and error into the design of his Chuck's FlutterStone. He thinks the result has the ideal amount of action, buggyness and overall attractiveness packed into the perfect stonefly profile.
  
 Go to Internet Flies
Internet Flies
All of a sudden, the new season or a spontaneous fly fishing trip with your best buddy is imminent. At that stage, you may think about ordering flies through an online shop. Selling flies through the Internet is a growing business. There is a vast number of private and commercial suppliers of flies and a large range of prices and qualities.
  
 Go to The Simplest Fly
The Simplest Fly
"What is this" "A fly!" "What kind of fly" "Well, this is a fly that imitates a beetle" The fly that he showed me then was really huge one, may be about 2 - 2,5 centimeters or almost and inch in diameter. "Wow, why is it so big?" "Because I am an old man, I can not see well"
  
 Go to Shark's Wasp
Shark's Wasp
Bulgarian fly tyer and fly angler Radoslav Kiskinov takes another stab at imitating a terrestrial insect - this time the wasp - and with usual skill he manages to produce a very life-like fly. Bulgarian anglers and Bulgarian fish love it.
  
 Go to Domestic Fly
Domestic Fly
The common housefly is indeed... eh.... common, and an obvious insect to imitate. Bulgarian Radoslav Kiskinov has made a simple but very efficient pattern imitating Musca domestica using foam, raffia and peacock herl, which will catch several species when fished dry.
  
 Go to Take me back
Take me back
Join Thomas Weiergang on a road-trip in Chile. The only thing to worry about, is when to fish again. When he planned the trip, he marked down some likely looking blue lines on the map, but nothing could prepare him for this: The opportunities are vast -  
  
 Go to Mart's Parachute Ant
Mart's Parachute Ant
During the warmer months of the year, they are just about anywhere... Ants. Martin Westbeek shows an easy way to tie a good ant imitation that will sit well on the surface and hopefully lure trout or grayling.
  
 Go to Monster's Bug
Monster's Bug
The tendency is, that flies become smaller and smaller trying to fool the fish. We end up using 7X, size 24 hooks and stealth moves on the river banks. Sometimes you need to go the opposite way, if you want a big fish at end of your tippet.
  
 Go to HiVis CDC Midge
HiVis CDC Midge
A high-visibility orange post and CDC makes this small dry perfect for your 7X tippet. Easy to tie, easy to follow on the water and a perfect choice when the fish are picky. Darryl Lampert from South Africa shows us one of his effective patterns.
  
 Go to Rackelhanen
Rackelhanen
It will form legs, wing, body and the perfect silhouette of a caddis. It's a great floater and superb for fast water or as an indicator tied on above a seductive nymph.
  
 Go to Vltava-Dobrá
Vltava-Dobrá
Kasper Mühlbach - GFF's eternal grayling hunter - takes on another challenge from the Lady of the Stream. This time he travels to the Czech Republic to learn from former Czech National Fly Fishing Team member Jan Siman. Does the Eastern European grayling differ from the Swedish one?
  
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Klarälven
Four happy, Danish boys go hunting for grayling in the southernmost Swedish river, which holds a decent number of this beautiful fish. Author Kasper Mühlbach joins GFF partner Martin Joergensen and their common friends Jens Groenlund and Asger Olesen on the journey.
  
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Four stream rods
This is not a review as such, but then again. GFF partner Martin Joergensen got the chance to play with four great and very different rods from ECHO, Harvest, Partridge and Scierra. All are light stream rods, but they still display large differences when fished side by side.
  
 Go to More Small Flies
More Small Flies
Ed Engle has given us the 2nd half of his treatise on small fly fishing, joining his prior work "Tying Small Flies" to give readers a true master's course on the topic of angling with - well - small flies. Another must read.
  
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Tying Small Flies
Ed Engle has given us a real gem of a book on the art and science of small flies and small fly tying. Bob Petti thinks this is one of those rare books that will stand the test of time and be a major influence on fly fishers and fly tyers.
  
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Black Funnel
This fly is kind of a coincidence. An idea. A fad. But it works. It is a funnel dun, Deveaux, Joergensen kind of pattern, which will imitate a hatching mosquito - albeit a very large one in the original version. It consists of two materials and is very easy to tie.
  
 Go to Stalcup's Mayflies
Stalcup's Mayflies
Shane's book is devoted to imitations imitations of each major stage of mayfly development - nymph, emerger, adult, and spinner - top to bottom as he says. For each section, he offers up several patterns, each with a introductory essay, step-by-step tying instructions, and a list of variations.
  
 Go to Better-Winged Olives
Better-Winged Olives
A recent tying binge left me with a few thoughts on how to tie a quicker and better blue-winged olive mayfly. The ideas aren't necessarily new, but they certainly are worth sharing.
  
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Montana Trout
Craig Fellin, owner of Big Hole Outfitters in Montana, tells how a first time flyfisher can spend a week working with an experienced guide learning most aspects of the sport at his or her own pace. "By the end of the week, you should have a mastery of the sport" he writes.
  
 Go to Millenium flies
Millenium flies
The intent of the book "Dry-Fly Patterns for the New Millenium" has been to capture the state of fly tying as we turned the calendar to a new century. Word spread about this effort, resulting in a huge variety of flies being submitted from literally every corner of the globe.
  
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Tying Flies the Paraloop Way
My first thought was probably the same as yours - what is "paraloop"? Paraloop is part technique, part style. Take a piece of a parachute, a bit of a thorax dun, and some thoughts of a comparadun, mix, and you'll arrive at a paraloop.
  
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Realistic Flies
Realistic flies are not only for the display case. As Steve Thornton shows us, realism can also be applied to practical and effective fishing flies. Trout and grayling beware!
  
 Go to Fabulous British videos
Fabulous British videos
These videos are the best fly tying and fly fishing videos I have ever seen, period! Oliver Edwards is an extraordinarily good fly tier and instructor, but first and foremost is he an extremely entertaining and pleasantly knowledgeable person to listen to.
  
 Go to Comparadone!
Comparadone!
Comparaduns are one of the most versatile mayfly patterns in existence representing a low-riding mayfly to near perfection. However, many tiers shy this simple pattern due to the perceived complexity of tying the deer hair wings. Learn to master the technique with GFF partner Steve Schweitzer.
  
 Go to Midwest Hatches
Midwest Hatches
Don't be fooled by the title! This hatch chart encompasses 46 different 'hatches' that are applicable to the entire US. It's ready to print out and keep by your tying desk for ready reference (Web, PDF and Excel formats). It's the most complete hatch chart on the net!
  
 Go to A.K.'s Fly Box
A.K.'s Fly Box
A.K. should be fairly well known. The term 'production fly tyer' is very suitable for him. He counts his flies in hundreds of dozens and has before demonstrated his ability to write books about this kind of tying. In this book he reveals the contents of his own fly boxes. They contain a lot of brown trout flies - no salt water patterns, no poppers, no bass flies. There are a few hoppers and ants, but apart from that it's mayflies, stoneflies a caddises.
  
 Go to The Real Deer Hair
The Real Deer Hair
A sedge pattern in the Goddard tradition - with a twist This fly is a combination of the G+H Sedge and a hackling method adapted from Dutch Piet Weeda - making it a one-material-fly. By Sven Ostermann
  
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Doing the Limbata
I apologize to you in advance for the disappointment you will feel upon learning that this article is not about a hot new dance step from south of the border and will not contribute to your romantic relationships or skills on the dance floor. By Jim Hauer
  
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The Flex Hex
The fly that did the Limbata as told by Jim Hauer By John Nebel
  
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Flies from the Flyleaves of my Diaries
This is a book I had anticipated for a while. It was released more than a year ago, and I have read it as a whole and in small pieces since. Preben Torp Jacobsen is an institution in Danish fly fishing and tying - a person whose name you can't avoid meeting: in books, at shows, referenced by other authors... even on TV. If anybody deserves the title of Grand Old Man in Danish fly fishing, it must be Torp.
  
 Go to Grey Duster
Grey Duster
Later my friend and I ran into problems on our favorite stream, when the tiny Caënis dayflies hatched. The trout sipped the fresh emerged flies all over the water - but they rejected all the flies we offered. Then we found a note in a magazine saying, that the fly with the peculiar name - the 'Grey Duster' - should be the right medicine, if it was tied with a parachute hackle. By Preben Torp Jacobsen
  
 Go to The Jassid
The Jassid
The headline contains some truth in the sense: When trout/graylings eat tiny surface-food, they only nead to open their mouth to a narrow slot and sip the fly in. If one presents them with a fly with a broad hackle - then they can't suck it in through their narrow mouth.
  
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Two flies in one
The small dipterae - Simulium sp. - has always been a problem - they are tiny and shows up in fantastic numbers. Why should a trout prefer our imitations when there are som many all over the water? By Preben Torp Jacobsen
  
 Go to Micropatterns
Micropatterns
With this book you get your moneys worth in weight. The book is a large format book with more than 300 pages. The size alone can make this book a bit scary, and innocent flytyers who leaf through it, will probably be intimidated by the huge volume of information.
  
 Go to The World's Best Trout Flies
The World's Best Trout Flies
This is a book that I bought when attending a very well set up fly tying arrangement here in Denmark just after new year, and already at the arrangement I met two of the tyers featured in the book: Oliver Edwards (UK) and Mogens Espersen (Denmark).
  
 Go to Flytyers Masterclass
Flytyers Masterclass
When you take into consideration the size and volume of this book: large format and app. 250 pages, and the fact that it 'only' deals with 20 flies, it should be obvious that each fly is described in minute details. And it sure is.
  
 Go to The art of the trout fly
The art of the trout fly
Seriously. This is a book that I like just to touch. The print renders the photos in an excellent quality, and leaves the reader with a feeling that the flies are as textured, translucent and subtle as they actually are.