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All the great fly patterns

The best dry flies, wet flies, nymphs, streamers - Material lists and tying instructions

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Olive CDC Garbage Bag Caddis

Gold & Black Wet

White Leg Nymph

Spark Sulfur Emerger

Pheasant Tail Wet Fly

Genner Bug

Mallard: There's absolute nothing original or innovative about this fly. On the contrary: it's super simple and has probably been tied in a gazillion variations before. It was inspired by some nice mallard feathers brought to one of our fly-tying and fishing trips.
See how it's tied here

The Chicken or Pasta Fly

IPSY2K: Too much about airplane food... and too little about fly tying and fly fishing. An ancient pattern from the Illustrated Pattern Swap year 2000.
Will it be chicken or pasta?

This link takes you to "Ken's Incredibly Simple Shrimp"

Ken's Incredibly Simple Shrimp

Keep it simple stupid: Shrimp flies are very much en vogue in the Baltic region, and keep on getting more and more complex. This one is simple and dead easy to tie - and still a very good imitation.
See that KISS is not (always) a rock band

Find "Mickey Finn" here

Mickey Finn

Bucktail: The Mickey Finn is one of the all time classic streamers. Simple, beautiful and fairly easy to tie - and a catcher.
Here's its history, the original tying recipe and a bunch of variations

See "The Bat Fly" by clicking here

The Bat Fly

Emerger: To tie Andrew Herd's Bat Fly, you will need a packet of Polo mints, a pair of shears and a full-bore rifle.
Read more in this excerpt from Chris Sandford's book Mayflies and More

Skip to "Goldmine Crab"

Goldmine Crab

Crab: A weedless crab pattern with lots of flash and color, yet with a discrete landing suitable for finicky fish. Tied for redfish and other warm saltwater species
See how to tie it here

More about "Streamers 365"

Streamers 365

A streamer a day: The Streamers 365 project has delighted streamer aficionados worldwide by delivering a new a beautiful streamer photo online every day. We have talked to Darren MacEachern, the man behind the project.
Read about it here

Click to go to "The Test Tube"

The Test Tube

Futurama: A weird and futuristic construction from the archives. Really easy to tie... eh, make... uhm... construct... Metal, plastic and glue.
See how to go about it here

Go to "Tight Line Shrimp"

Tight Line Shrimp

Shrimpin': A go to shrimp fly for tailing redfish from Laguna Madre based fly fisherman Roy Lopez. Easy to tie and perfect for the reds as well as a bunch of other species.
See how to tie it here

Find "Malbran - The fly that catches everything" here

Malbran

Tinsel: Malbran is the fly that catches everything. Created by Ramiro Garcia Malbràn and tied with simple and cheap materials it's the ideal fly for fierce predators like dorado, pike and bass.
Learn to tie it here

Find "Peeete's Pheather'n'Phlash" on this page

Peeete's Pheather'
n'Phlash

Phly welding: AKA Peeete's Welded Wide Body Tunnel Hull Pheather'n'Phlash Tube Phly. The name is complex, but the fly is simple, showing how to build a large baitfish imitation with few and easily accessible materials - and Pete Gray's neat welding technique.
To the toolshop

Find "Redfish Puff" here

Redfish Puff

A catcher: Lead dumbbell eyes, a bit of flash, marabou and some deer hair and and you have a deadly fly for fish prowling the flats for shrimp and crabs. It's the Redfish Puff, and it catches more than redfish.
See how to tie it here

Click to see "Discovering the Marbury Lake Flies"

Discovering the Marbury Lake Flies

Marbury: If today's tyer wants to tie the Mary Orvis Marbury Lake flies, they would be wise to think 'old school', and transport themselves back to a time when the hooks had blind eyes, the materials were natural, and the flies were colorful and uniquely adapted to the American fly fishing experience by Mary Orvis Marbury and her crew of women tyers.
Click here to learn how to tie them

Read more on "Nize"

Nize

Tube fly: Nize is a tube fly tied the environmentally friendly way - reusing tube scraps from other flies. It's an efficient fly for salmon.
See how to tie it here

Go to Allan's Winter Shrimp

Allan's Winter Shrimp
A simple shrimp pattern that does not use the popular but expensive Spey hackle

Go to Portraits of Salmon Flies

Portraits of Salmon Flies
We have featured Danish Niels Have's beautiful full dressed classic salmon flies before, but here's another take on them. He ties these flies for fishing, but in a very high quality.

Go to The Green Inchworm

The Green Inchworm
Most of the rivers in Northern and mid Patagonia are lined with trees, most of which are willows, and in summer they supply one of the trout's favourite meals, the willow worm.

Go to Martin's Mundane <br />Crazy Dane

Martin's Mundane
Crazy Dane
A slight variation of an really old fly of mine, which again was a derivative of Bob Nauheim's famed Crazy Charlie. It's simple and really mundane, and simpler than the already very simple original!

Go to Martin's Mundane <br />Crane Fly

Martin's Mundane
Crane Fly
The crane fly or daddy longlegs is a simple insect with some very distinct characteristics, in particular the very long legs, which are a key ingredient in any crane fly pattern. This pattern uses two materials and is dead simple to tie.

Go to Fleye Foils

Fleye Foils
These new fish shaped foils from Bob Popovics are really great for making baitfish imitations. They come in several shapes and many sizes, and stick on the side of your flies, ready to be covered with resin.

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·A Black Fly
·A few from Ora Smith
·A New Look at the Grannom
·A Pheasant Under Glass
·Action Emerging Caddis
·Alan Petrucci Streamers
·Allan's Winter Shrimp
·An experiment
·Angel Body
·Baby Buggers
·Banderillas
·Barrel Full of Bucktails
·Bass bugs
·Bastard Crab
·Bates' Art
·Beginner's Buzzer
·Bergman
·Bert Quimby
·Better-Winged Olives
·Big Hole Demon
·Big Mike's streamers
·Black Frede
·Black Funnel
·Black Ghost Tube
·Bloody Butcher
·Bon Aventure flies
·Bonefish Bitters
·Boney Flies
·Bow River Bugger
·Branchu
·Brenda
·Brown Spinner
·Brush eyes
·Bullet Head Magnus
·Bunny Leech
·Bunny Split
·Burning Man
·Carrie Challenge II
·Carrie's Challenge
·Catalog of fly patterns (outdated)
·CDC Mayfly
·CDC&Elk
·Charlie's Bead Head Scud
·Charlie's Phesant Tail Nymph
·Charlie's Prince Nymph
·Cheapskate Heron
·Chilli Pepper Flies
·Chillimps
·Chinese White
·Chinook in the salt
·Chinos!
·Chris Edghills salt water patterns
·Christmas Tree
·Chubby Fishing
·Chuck's FlutterStone
·Classic Wet Flies
·Classics
·Clouser Deep Minnow
·Cluster Egg Fly
·Comparadone!
·Cone head flies
·Cone head flies
·Coney flies
·Coney Snowbugger
·Convertible tubes
·Copper Frede
·Crazy Dane
·CZCDNTM
·Czech nymphs
·Dalby Revenger
·Danish Pastry Fly
·Darth Vader Nymph
·Das Cephalopod
·David
·Deep in my heart
·Discovering the Marbury Lake Flies
·Djihad
·Doing the Limbata
·Domestic Fly
·Double K Reverse Spider
·Dual Tube Phlyz
·Edwards' Little Ant
·Epoxy Miracle
·EZ quintet
·Fall Streamers
·Fatal Attraction
·Favorite Dad
·Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout
·Favorite Streamer Swap
·Fill-the-box
·Fishing the Muddler Minnow
·Flats in the cold
·Flatwings
·Fleye Foils
·Fly gallery
·Fly gallery 2002
·Foam flies for panfish
·Fox swap
·Francois le Ny
·Frida
·Full Metal Jacket Nutria Muddler, variations
·G-String Eyes
·Genner Bug
·George F. Grant’s Flies
·Gift wrapping string fly
·Glitter Shrimp
·Goldmine Crab
·Grantham's Sedge
·Great Lakes Irish Invaders
·Green Machine
·Grey Duster
·Grey Frede
·Grizzly Streamers
·GYMF
·Hairwings & Tubes
·Hare's Ear Bug
·Hen Hackle Demystified
·Henning's Snot

·Hillbilly Copper John
·HiVis CDC Midge
·HKA Sunray/Bismo
·Honey Shrimp
·Hoppers with Foam
·Hornbergs
·Hospitalized kids need your flies!
·How simple can it get?
·How to submit a pattern to GFF
·Innovative Saltwater Flies
·Inspiration
·Internet Flies
·IQ Dawn series
·Jack Plotts' Foam flies
·Jan's Emerger
·Jan's Giant Buzzers
·Jan's GP
·Jiggy
·Jim Warner flies
·Jim Warner Swap
·Kai's Green Terror
·Ken's Cuteling
·Ken's Incredibly Simple Shrimp
·Kern's Perfect Leo Shrimp
·Kluting
·Klympen
·La Muerte
·Lake Champ
·Lake Erie Shiner
·Linked flies
·Little Devil
·Loch Dhu Salmon
·Magnus
·Magnus Classic
·Magnus Muddler
·Malbran
·Mart's Parachute Ant
·Martin's Mundane Crane Fly
·Martin's Mundane Crazy Dane
·Martin's Mundane Fly Project
·Martin's Mundane Sand Eel
·Martin's Mundane Shrimp
·Martin's Mundane Zonker Worm
·Martinek's CS streamers
·Mart´s Bibio
·Meko Special
·Merry Christmas
·Messy Pike Fly
·Mickey Finn
·Mike Boyer Streamers
·Mini Pig
·Mini Streamers
·Miss Ring
·Monster Muddler
·Monster Muddlers
·Monster's Bug
·Morrisfoam Diver
·Muddler mania
·Muddler spec.
·My Fly Box
·Mysid
·New Streamers
·Niels' flies
·Ninja Toe Biter
·Nize
·North Country flies on blind hooks
·Nothing...
·Nutria muddler
·OEDDS
·Omoe Brush
·Opossum
·Opossum Shrimp
·Orange Twist
·Our first mullets
·Para-Hackle Emerger
·Peeete's Pheather'n'Phlash
·PeeMew Midge
·PET Blue NJ
·Pete's EZ Hopper
·Phar Side Phly
·Philatelic phlies
·Pike streamer
·Pinky Pain
·PK Mysis Variant
·Polar Perch
·Portraits of Salmon Flies
·Poul Jorgensen's General Practitioner
·Prince Nymphs
·Rackelhanen
·Raven NJ
·Real Enough!
·Realistic Flies
·Red Tag
·Red Tag Palmer
·Redfish Puff
·Rolled Muddler
·S&L's Lost Flies
·Salt Water Caddis
·Salt water spiders
·Salty dreams and glassy shrimp
·Sand eel/lance
·Sawada tubes
·Screwhead Matuka
·Seatrout flies for 2012
·Shark's Caddis Larva
·Shark's Wasp
·SHCZCDNTM
·Sheep hair flies
·Shrimp anatomy for the fly tyer
·Simo Lumme
·Simple Streamers
·Sinister Phly
·Small and large flies for sea trout
·Small flies
·Small muddler
·Smallmouth Jump
·Smelt swap
·Soft-Hackles

·Spey & Dee
·Spey Hackles
·Speyshal
·Spider NJ
·Splayed-A-Live
·Spotless fly
·Squid Vicious
·Squirrel streamer
·Squirrel Zonker
·Squirrel zonker
·Staring Sunray Shadow
·Steelhead Beetle
·Strange X-Mas
·Strange X-mas
·Stream flies for sea trout and steelhead
·Streamers 365
·Sunray Shadow
·Surf Candy
·Susquehanna Smallmouth patterns
·Tabou Daddy
·The Barbell Tube
·The Bat Fly
·The Bjarke
·The Black Frede
·The Bloody Zonker
·The Bottle Cleaner
·The Bumble Bee
·The CDC & Elk family
·The Charlie Fly
·The Chicken or Pasta Fly
·The Christmas Tree
·The Clouserish
·The Copper Bully
·The Crab
·The Dalby Dribbler
·The Dirty White
·The eel smelling shrimp
·The Fair Fly
·The Femmer Crab
·The Flasher
·The Flatwing style
·The Flee
·The Flex Hex
·The Floating Shrimp
·The Fluff
·The Gladiator
·The Gold Nugget
·The Green Inchworm
·The Grey Fred
·The history of the gold bead
·The Idiot
·The IQ shrimps
·The IQ Zeb Macahan
·The Jassid
·The Junior Mysis
·The killer fly
·The Killer Mantis
·The Killer Shrimp
·The Lab
·The Locofoam Story
·The Magnus
·The Mango
·The Match Shrimp
·The Mia Fly
·The Moor Fly
·The Moyerfokker
·The Mymph
·The New Flee
·The Omoe Brush
·The Orange Silver
·The Overtaker
·The Perfect Woolly
·The Pink Pig - Pattegrisen
·The Plipper
·The Polar Conehead
·The Real Deer Hair
·The Real Rag Worm
·The Red and Copper Shrimp
·The Red Fly
·The Rocket
·The Ronker
·The Sabot Fly
·The Shank
·The Simplest Fly
·The Tabou Caddis Emerger
·The Terrible Muddler
·The Test Tube
·The Triangle Fly
·The Universal Nymph
·The Welded Phly
·The White
·The Zuddler
·Thunder Creeks
·Tight Line Shrimp
·Tom's Hopper
·Tooth & Nail
·Très Bien
·Tribute to MOM
·Trout beads
·Tube Muddler
·Twist of Lemon
·Two flies in one
·Tying a muddler
·Tying the Matuka style
·Umbrella
·Umbrella for streams
·Une Création
·Upgrading the Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
·Valeur's Pike Streamer
·Wadington shanks
·Wasp Year
·Wiggle Jig Worm
·Wingless Wets
·Woodchuck
·Woodduck Flank
·Yellow Marabou Special
·Zonker patterns
·Zoo Cougar

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·New tube materials
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·Dicentrarchus labrax
·Christmas gifts
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