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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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CCG Glass Sand Eel

Alpaca Comparadun

FM Tube Fly Brown

Sparkle Pupae Jig Variant

Firebead Soft Hackle Sowbug

3 Patterns of the Blue Winged Olive

GYMF

Yarn: The Green Yarn Mullet Fly. Few flies are as easy to tie, provided you can get a hold of the special yarn used. Martin found the material for this fly in his wife's knitting scraps.
A true treasure trove

Shrimp anatomy for the fly tyer

Lecture: Having seen, tied and fished shrimp flies for many years, Martin feels a need to do a little lecture on the real appearance of shrimp, especially targeted at fly tyers.
Take the shrimp class here

Jump to "Djihad"

Djihad

Bright fly: The Djihad is a bright fly with a shiny body, silver combined with black and red. Just my kind of fly. I like the Irish Shrimp tradition flies, and this is such a fly on steroids. It even uses one of my favorite materials: Golden Pheasant.
See more here

Skip to "PK Mysis Variant"

PK Mysis Variant

Sparse: An extremely lightly dressed and delicate fly that imitates a mysid originated by Danish fly tyer Per Karlsen. Per has made the Variant himself, and it's really simple!
See the pattern here

More about "Mini Pig"

Mini Pig

Peachish: The Baltic seatrout community has been going berserk over a huge pink fly called the Pink Pig. I find that the Mini Pig is a more sensible alternative. This article covers two versions.
See more here.

Jump to "Rolled Muddler"

Rolled Muddler

Deer hair: I met the Rolled Muddler in BC while fishing for Pacific salmon, but like it so much that I'll tie up a bunch for my local seatrout, and I'm sure they will work.
See how to tie it here

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Frida

Small: Frida is the little sister of the beloved Grey Frede, and that alone is a recommendation. It's a small and compact, yet shiny fly meant for sea trout, but definitely useful for other species too - panfish in small sizes, bonefish in larger.
Tie the Frida here

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Pinky Pain

Painful: Bright, colorful and visible. A perfect fly for slow fish in cold or murky water. It earned its name because the creator hooked his own nose with it on its maiden voyage! Seatrout like it, but other trout will too.
See how to tie it here

Go to "Brenda"

Brenda

Golden: The Brenda is a beautiful, harmonic and productive seatrout pattern from Danish fly tyer Ove Monrad. It features a brass bead to add some weight and a sexy, jigging motion.
See how to tie it here

Go to "Seatrout flies for 2012"

Seatrout flies for 2012

Flybox filling: The seatrout season will soon be upon us here in northern Europe, and Martin thought he'd expand his horizon a bit and add some new seatrout patterns to his flybox before the 2012 season.
See what patterns Martin chose here

Go to A New Look at the Grannom

A New Look at the Grannom
The Grannom is a small sedge (caddis to those in USA), which hatches in large quantities in April and is regarded as the first fly to prompt trout to "look up".

Go to Tom's Hopper

Tom's Hopper
Before you know it, the summer is upon us, and a hopper pattern can suddenly be what makes a day. Tom Biesot's hopper is a good bet. Using a foam body and a couple of neat tecniques

Go to Martin's Mundane Shrimp

Martin's Mundane Shrimp
Another simple, three-material fly. This time a shrimp, well suited for seatrout and probably fine for a number of other saltwater species not least bonefish. Super simple to tie and with easily accessible and cheap materials.

Go to Upgrading the Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear

Upgrading the Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear
It might seem futile to try to improve one of the world's most proven patterns, but there's room for improvement. Trevor Morgan gives some classics an overhaul.

Go to A few from Ora Smith

A few from Ora Smith
The flies of Ora Smith that have captured my imagination were the little casting streamers with duck flank wings. They are like elongated wet flies. I sat down one weekend and tied up a selection, imaging some late spring day when I could cast these flies on a light line to some spooky trout.

Go to Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout

Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout
In this new book Martin has tried to cover his favorite fly patterns, and has included 29 of the flies that he and his best fishing friends use 90% of the time when they fish for Danish coastal seatrout.

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·Shrimp anatomy for the fly tyer
·Seatrout flies for 2012
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·Favorite Flies for Baltic Seatrout
·How to submit a pattern to GFF
·Martin's Mundane Fly Project
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