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2021
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Feather Anatomy Part 2

Wayne Luallen looks at the way feathers marry.

Feather Anatomy Part 1

Wayne Luallen looks at the basic structure of a feather.

Klink-Camel

Klink-Camel - Klinkhamer Variant

Copper Nymph

The Copper Nymph is a Scottish fly that could be seen as something of a precursor to the Copper John, but it's a fantastic river pattern for trout and grayling in its own right.

Lightning Bug

Detailed instructions for tying a Lightning Bug nymph.

Detached body mayfly

Detached body with deer hair and CDC, hackle and some dry fly dubbing. Almost fish guaranteed on this fly in the Vulgata hatch,

Garry Dog

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Magni or Partridge Double size 8 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tag, Small Oval Silver Tinsel Tail, Golden Pheasant Crest

Goddard Caddis

John Henry Goddard and Cliff came to this design after spending hours watching the silhouette of a "sedges" name that is also known to fly Caddis in England.

Emerging/Spent LDO

Hook: Hanak H360 BL #12 Thread: UTC 140D Olive Rib: Fish On Silver Wire 0.14 Thorax: Snowshoe (dyed olive) Wing: Troutline Campbell Tan CDC

Texas Fly Fishing in Winter

During the winter here in Texas, fly fishing can be tough. However that doesn't mean you can't catch a few nice fish.

Ha'penny Hooker

A generic nymph imitation tied with just 10cm/4in of organza ribbon.

Zonker Baitfish

Fly Tying tutorial of a zonker baitfish, tied by German Flytier Oliver Oeltze.

Mr Finicky

Don ties up the next fly in the SFOTF Chironomid Series and it come right from his 'Private' fly box. 'Mr.

The Animal (Dyret)

Slim Grizzly Nymph

Quick, Easy, and Effective Mop Fly

Quick, easy, and effective Mop Fly tie. A very easy and effective way to tie a mop fly step by step instruction for a very simple cheap fly!

Simple Ant dry fly

Ant patterns can be one of the most effective patterns during the right times of year. When you start seeing flying ants floating in the water, you should really throw these.

Craig's Nighttime

A New Zealand streamer fly for hunting large rainbows and brown trout in the dark hours.

Truck Camping

Fly Fishing World class trout river and camping in the back of my truck, i have been meaning to fish this river for 7 years so glad i finally did it + the truck camping has been on my to do list fo

Buckhorn Bully

The Buckhorn Bully is a simple fly pattern and can be tied in any number of color combinations. Use your favorite jig hook for the fly pattern and play around with the color of the bead you use.

Bristow's Bug

One of the lesser known but still effective old grayling and trout patterns, with couple of nice body techniques with peacock herl.

Solomon Caddis Pupa Variant

This variant of the semi realistic Solomon caddis pupa is a relative easy tie and has a few nice techniques to take further on other patterns.

Three Dollar Dip

For me this is one of the very best emerger patterns that can be used for both midges and mayflies.

Heinz 57

A wonderful little pattern that, as the name suggests, is a composition of several better known patterns. This is a simple tie that will cover most dry fly situations when grayling fishing.

Hare's Ear Muddler

One of my favourite patterns for when the fish won't have anything bright and prefer something more buggy and natural looking.

Pheasant Tail Black

A little effective variant of the classic that you can fish in both still and running water all year round. A couple of nice techniques here to take further on other patterns.

Frozen Fox

Detailed instructions for tying a Frozen Fox streamer.

Red Cheeked Buzzer

Red Cheeked Buzzer for the Irish Loughs

Duo Style Klinkhamer

Whether you call it the duo, New Zealand style, hedged bet or klink & dink, hanging a nymph of of a dry fly is an absolutely deadly method at times.

Duck Fly Cruncher

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail, Light Speckled Coq de Leon or Grizzle Fibres Rib, Fine Silver Wire

Glentana

From a beautiful book, Norwegian Erling Olsen's “Mine beste fluer” (My Best Flies). A lot of different materials and beautiful to tie!

Holographic Buzzer

Happy New Year Friends. Great Pattern for all Year Round, also works well in Winter. Hook size 10 Thread Black Body & Cheeks Red Holo Tinsel

Swimbait BULKhead

This video breaks down the Swimbait Rigging for the 6/0 PR378 GB Predator Swimbait Hook and shows a detailed Step by Step tying instruction for dressing a Bob Popovics' BULKhead Fleye.

A successful and simple dry fly ant

Irish Lough Style Stimulator

Materials Used; Hook, Size 8 Stimulator or Dry Fly Thread, Uni-8/0 Fire Orange Rib, Oval Gold Tinsel or Wire Body, Olive Seals Fur or Sub

Joseph Ludkin Reel Wing Spinner

Our old friend John Petermann who is a very skilled flyfisher, certified flycaster and finally but not at least he is a very creative flytyer tying some excellent flies for all kind of fish he is t

Gartside Sparrow

Probably Jack Gartside's best known pattern from the early seventies.

Dark Needle

The dark needle is a great pattern from Edmonds & Lee's "Brook and River Trouting". It's ideal toward the end of the season and is very effective when there are small stoneflies on the water.

Cdc Deer Hair Spinner

Deer hair and CDC are favorites for my own dry flies. The peacock quills and tinsel make the body and some foam for visibility and floating.

Skykomish Sunrise

Love this classic beauty that was created as kind of a family team effort, by father and son Ken and George McLeod back in the late 1930's.

Sometimes even slow days end great!

Bass fishing at its best for a small South Texas fly fishing stream. This was a great day. However it started kinda slow. Lots of walking, searching for fish with no success.

Braid Body Emerger

Fly tying a simple extended body emerger using hollow braid fly line backing, A very simple to tie emerger.

Margaree Bug

Detailed instructions for tying a Margaree Bug.

G Dragon

Tying Materials Hook: DAIICHI 1530 # 6. Thread: Gel Spun, black, 150 denier. Body: blue foam, 2mm thick. Wings: transparent silicon rubber, with gloss.

Blue Charm

My favorite salmon fly to ty! This one here is for fishing and not for a collection. The Patriot single hook size 6 or 8...

Dark Montreal

hook mustad 3399 sizes 10 to 14, thread denville 6/0 black, tail claret color hackle fibers, rib small flat gold tinsel, body claret color floss or yarn,

Lime Trude

The Lime Trude is an effective attractor dry. Representing nothing specific, it's an ideal choice for prospecting, especially with a nymph dropper.

Dry fly, hackle work and peacock quills

Hackle and peacock are to beautiful materials to work with . To have an compact and tidy hackle you need to clean the one side of the feather before tying.

Mole Fly

Join Signature Tyer Charlie Craven as he ties and talks about the Mole Fly

Hatching Midge

"Big flies big fish" is not always correct, sometimes even the largest trout can be selective on micro-flies such as mosquitoes and caenis.

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