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Amnesia Pupa Jan 9. 2025 Mono This isn’t a forgetful or amnesic pupa, but has earned its name because it’s tied using Amnesia mono Tie along here	Bugeyed Pupa Dec 17. 2024 Beads Two tungsten beads on a loop of monofilament adds weight and eyes to this fly See more here	Hair Winged Salmon Flies Dec 5. 2024 Patterns Material listings, pictures and tying notes for no less than 34 hair winged salmon fly patterns See them all here
Advanced Flytying Techniques Dec 3. 2024 SBS A new book from Barry Ord Clarke is a pretty safe bet on a good book, and this one is indeed good	Knotting Nymphs Nov 27. 2024 Tying Introducing a way of making nymph bodies using elastic bead cord and a knotting technique Here's how	Pipette Hoppers and Poppers Oct 21. 2024 Lab equipment Lab equipment flies tied using plastic pipettes. See the tricks here
Ribbontail Baitfish Sep 24. 2024 Saltwater A mobile tailed baitfish pattern tied with organza and synthetic fibres See how to tie it here	Stillwater Fly Fishing Jul 17. 2024 Review The subtitle is "Competition-Inspired Strategies for Everyday Anglers", and that's exactly what you get	Dmitriy Lesnov’s Salmon Flies Jul 2. 2024 Classics When on social media of various kinds, you bump into some very talented people now and then. Belarusian Dmitriy Lesnov is one of those talents Read about Lesnov here
Fly Fishing for Trophy Striped Bass Jul 1. 2024 Any striper angler will want to spend a day fishing with the author after reading this book	Fly-fishing Turkey Jun 23. 2024 Traveling Few anglers think of Turkey as a trout fishing destination, but its unique geography has provided a hotbed for many trout species Read more	Casting backwards Jun 12. 2024 Casting There are a ton of situations where a backcast presentation will save the day. Here are a few good reasons to learn it – and how. Pics and videos
A different podcast May 27. 2024 Listen There’s a surprising number of fishing podcasts out there, but this one is slightly different than most More here	Photographing Floating Flies May 22. 2024 Surface Getting a decent macro image of a dry fly sitting on water is one of the hardest shots to pull off Learn more here	The Klink May 10. 2024 Klinked Dutch Hans van Klinken is best known as the originator of the Klinkhåmer Special. This large and beautiful book tells its full story ... and much, much more
Chain Gang Crayfish Apr 23. 2024 Clawed We should fish crayfish imitations more than we do. Crayfish can be used to target trout, bass, carp and other species See how to tie one here	Copper Braid Mar 27. 2024 Material This type of braid is found in electronics stores, but is a great new addition to the fly tyer’s arsenal of useful copper products See some patterns here	Mini Headbanger Mar 9. 2024 Cased A scaled-down version of the author’s own Headbanger Caddis, a cased nymph caddis pattern See how to tie it here
Fly tying Feb 29. 2024 Book review Fly tying really makes beautiful books! 12 saltwater flies that catch fish!	Steel Pin Shrimp Feb 25. 2024 Gammarus A scud pattern with 26 individual legs is no task if you make this small, ingenious tool out of wire. See how here	Tom’s Leather Fly Reel Cases Feb 19. 2024 DIY Dutch Tom Biesot made some beautiful leather cases for his homemade fly reels See how here
How to tie a hook on a tube fly Feb 17. 2024 Tubes Those of us who have fished tube flies for ages have no problem understanding the principle, but if you're new to tubes, the simple task of attaching a hook to a tube fly might seem hard to figure out. Here's how	Steel Shrimp Feb 10. 2024 Chained Another Nick Thomas fly using bead chain for weight and orientation See the easy pattern here	Hair stackers Feb 5. 2024 Tool A bit of stacker education and stacker philosophy is due, so here it is: quite a lot of information about hair stackers Much more here
Get Knotting Jan 30. 2024 Tie the knot Monofilament of many kinds can be used as a fly material as it can be seen in this simple Knot Bug See how here	There's deer hair ... Jan 25. 2024 Materials ... and then there's deer hair. And it can be many different things. It is not at all that easy to find the right kind for the many patterns with this fantastic material Deer hair 101	Smallest Fly Page Jan 16. 2024 Micro Flies from Dutch Hans Weilenmann's 1998/99 project SFP - Smallest Fly Page - with size 32 patterns from all over the world See the images here

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