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Homebrew Rod Drying Fixture

Sep 9. 2026

While rebuilding a bamboo fly rod, Steve Allen made a simple, inexpensive rod drying fixture built from readily available parts

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Aug 30. 2026

Shucked Up

Sometimes hatching fails completely and the unfortunate insect is trapped half in and half out of its previous skin. That’s what the Shucked Up is designed to imitate

Aug 22. 2026

Synthetics: Friend or Faux?

Let’s look at a side by side comparison of natural and synthetic materials used to tie the same pattern

Aug 14. 2026

Langeländer Pølse Flue

The Long Island Sausage Fly is perhaps an easier name for this German ragworm imitation. That might work better for some readers. The fish don't care, the fly is still a killer.

Aug 6. 2026

Dragons and Damsels

Damselflies and dragonflies are common, come in a variety of sizes and colours and often end their lives as fish food

Aug 2. 2026

PG Shrimp

A simple, fast-to-tie shrimp pattern developed for Baltic sea trout

Jul 26. 2026

Screaming Banshee

This is a great little innovative pattern from Charlie Craven, designed as a skating pattern, but it also performs well as an all-round caddis

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Sep 1. 2026

One of those fly shops

Stroud Tackle in San Diego was one of my early “real flyshop” encounters back in 1999. I remember my visit vividly

Jul 26. 2026

The joy of shopping

I rarely miss the opportunity to go shopping for fly-stuff when I have the chance

Apr 27. 2026

A bottle tube story

Many, many years ago, I suggested to French bead and cone maker Andre Bidoz that he should make some bottle tubes I had thought of. And he did!

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Sep 12. 2026

Light Olive Klinkhamer

Materials Used:
Hook- Partridge Klinkhamer hook size 14
Thread- Uni 8/0 Black
Post- Blob & Buzzer Parapost Yellow
Hackle- Hoffman badger dry fly

Sep 12. 2026

Dark Olive

Materials Used:
Hook- Kamasan B175 size 14
Thread- Uni 8/0 Olive
Tail- Sooty olive cock hackle fibres
Body- Stripped peacock eye quill

Sep 12. 2026

Golden Purple Spey

Materials Used:
Hook- TG Salmon Iron size 1/0
Thread- Uni 8/0 white and then Uni 8/0 Black for the head
Tag- Gold tinsel
Rib- Oval gold tinsel

Sep 12. 2026

CDC Caddis

Dyed CDC Feathers and tying a small CDC Elk Hair Caddis Fly..

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Sep 12. 2026

Brush Fly

Brush flies are a great option when you want a quick and simple baitfish that will stand up to the toothiest of fish.

Sep 10. 2026

March Brown Emerger

A Deadly Early-Season Trout Fly
Materials Used:
Hook- Partridge Caddis K14A Emerger size 12
Thread- Uni 8/0 Dark Brown
Wing- Roe deer
Tail- Coq de Leon

Buying foam

Foam is used in many fly patterns, but foam isn't just foam. Here's a guide to getting the right stuff - and at a decent price

Apr 10. 2026

Jul 25. 2026

Mika Fly

The German Mika-Fliege – or simply the Mika Fly – is a versatile coastal sea trout fly for every season

Jul 22. 2026

Latex Leech

The Latex Leech has a flexible detached latex body tied over hollow monofilament braid fly line backing

Jul 7. 2026

Source to City

I don't have any specific interest in the Welsh river Taff, but still I enjoyed this book about the river system immensely

Jul 1. 2026

Brazil Adventure

German fly angler Florian Baumann had heard about peacock bass in the Amazon, but there was more fishing in Brazil than he thought

Jun 23. 2026

The honest guide to chalk streams

This is a guide to chalk stream fly fishing in the UK in 2026 with tips on finding, booking and fishing chalk stream beats in southern Britain

Jun 18. 2026

One Ribbon Nymph

The One Ribbon Nymph is tied using just one size of cream artificial silk ribbon coloured with a couple of permanent marker pens

Intruder shanks, wire and hooks

The major difference between almost any fly and an Intruder is the use of a shank and a trailing hook. This is about shanks, wires and stinger hooks.

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