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2025
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Raccoon - Vaskebjørn

A versatile streamer with a huge number of fine sea trout on its conscience.

Will Ketch

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Will Ketch. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Cutcliffe XXII

Number 22 and for April. Light Silvery Blue, Rabbit & Turmeric Rabbit, Silver Twist

Wilson's Bass Bully

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Wilson's Bass Bully. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Remnant Fly 37 - White Bass

This is the 37th fly in a series of flies I call Remnant Flies.

Golden Rod

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Golden Rod Wet Fly. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Dynamite Harry Black Gnat & CDC Waterhen Bloa Euro Nymph

Materials Used; CDC Waterhen Bloa Beaded Euro Nymph..

Shang's Special

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Shang's Special. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

McFly's McCraw

This McCraw fly is one I developed specifically to fish bass in the creeks and rivers down in South Texas, however this works amazingly pretty much everywhere that bass eat crawfish (which is every

Grandis

XL size caddisflies whet the appetite and curiosity of many trout. Even when insects are sparse on the surface, a stripped Grandis can be a winner on the river or trout lake.

Stinchar Stoats Tail and a Sparse Ally's Shrimp

Stinchar Stoats Tail and a Ally's Shrimp salmon flies tyed to suit low water..

Gray Drake

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Gray Drake Wet Fly. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Floating Caddis Pupa

Floating Caddis Pupa.. Materials Used;

Jig Napoleon

Detailed instructions for tying a Jig Napoleon. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine.

Tying the Ball Peen Craw - Dressed Irons

Step by Step showing you how to tie Jay Zimmerman's Ball Peen Craw. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Jungle Queen

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Jungle Queen. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Emerald Hopper

The song of grasshoppers is a major part of the background soundscape on a warm day in late summer and early fall. They live on most corners of the planet, not counting the coldest climate zones.

Three Generalist Dry Fly Patterns

Bob Wyatt's - Three Generalist Dry Fly Patterns - DHS, DHE & SHE

Clouser Minnow

Clouser Minnows are some of the most popular and commonly fished streamers ever created, and for good reason.

Cutcliffe XXI

Red Fox, Grey Cat; Wing Bluish Pheasant We have arrived at April! Number 21...blackjack!

Galloway Claret Hopper

Fishing for Wild Brown Trout in the Galloway Hills Ayrshire Scotland..Fishing the Galloway Claret Hopper..https://youtu.be/7mbIgDSbL9U Galloway Claret Hopper Materials Used;

Coch y Bonddu Muddler

The Coch y Bond Muddler is used to represent a small beetle which you find on many hill lochs throughout the UK and Ireland..I would fish this on a cast with other flies and being a muddler then I

Light Cahill Parachute

Detailed instructions for tying a Light Cahill Parachute fly. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine.

Super Mottle Midge Larva

Detailed instructions for tying a Super Mottle Midge Larva fly. Recipe: Hook: Tactical Midge Black Nickel, size 22 (here, Fulling Mill 5145).

Amber Sedge Pupa

Here's a simple, effective sedge pupa that will serve you well in a range of caddis hatches from stillwater to rivers. Ideal for those summer sedges on the lochs.

Energizer Sculpin

Michigan guide and big streamer expert Russ Maddin has been fishing all his life and is well known for being part of the original big streamer movement.

Ullsocken Tube

Everybody in Mörrum knows the classic Ullsocken fly (“the wool sock” in Swedish).

Royal Tiger

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Royal Tiger. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Sneaky Pete

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Sneaky Pete topwater fly. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Inch Worm Caterpillar

Inchworms are not worms but are actually caterpillars belonging to the Geometridae family of moths, commonly known as "measuring worms" due to their distinctive looping movement, where they extend

Black Water Spider

Materials Used;

Foam Indicator Emerger Nymph

A great fly to fish on its own as well as an indicator with other flies both on rivers and in lochs.

Pale Morning Dun

Tying a Turkey Biot Pale Morning Dun Dry Fly.. Materials Used;

Dubbing teasers

Tool Tips vol 2 by Wayne Luallen

Bleeding PT

Open the hook gape

Formula One Flash Tail

This fly is Alex Belonga’s take on an effective steelhead tube fly, tied using the Pro Sportfisher Tubefly System.

JK Brownspeckled Baitfish

This fly is inspired by Jonny King and his unique approach to tying trout streamers.

Surgical Stonefly

Waterproof surgical tape is an excellent material for wings on insect imitations

Panfish Popper

Poppers are one of the most fun flies to fly fish with.

Cutcliffe XX

Number 20. Red Fox, Hare Flax, Devon Cow equal parts, Woodcock Wing. Simple pattern with a great body dubbing mix.

Cutcliffe XIX

This is pattern number 19. This pattern has tails! Tails Blue Dun, Light Fox Fur, Yellow Silk Rib, Wing of Staring, Hackle Light Blue.

Panfish Gurgler

Gurgler's are easy top water, popper style flies that catch a wide range of fish.

Tool Tips volume 1 (by Wayne Luallen)

00:00 Rotating bobbin threader 01:19 polishing bobbin holder tube 03:09 bodkin cleaner 03:54 polishing scissor tips 05:44 Hackle plier grips

Carters Rubber Leg Dragonfly

This fly, the carters rubber leg dragonfly, I feel is one of the best all around warm water flies out there.

Cutcliffe XVIII

Number 18 is a straightforward pattern. Water rat; Black Red Hackle

March Brown Soft Hackle

If you like swinging wet flies, you will love this March Brown soft hackle pattern.

Hare's Ear Soft Hackle

In today's instructional fly tying feature, we demonstrate how to create the highly effective Hare's Ear Soft Hackle pattern.

Hot Butt Buzzer

This Buzzer is nothing new, but it's a great pattern to have in your box and will catch fish all season long.

Armadillo

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Armadillo topwater fly. Join a growing fly tying community on Locals - Dressed Irons Guild - https://diflytying.locals.com/

Crane Fly Dry (Daddy Long Legs)

Detailed instructions for tying a Crane Fly Dry also known as a Daddy or a Daddy Long Legs. For video on knotting pheasant tail legs, visit: https://youtu.be/_11xj1g6Z3Q?si=tL-hoiuRup2o8zVs

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