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2020
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Dovey Black & Orange

How to dress the Dovey Black and Orange sea trout (sewin) fly. A very old, famous Welsh sea trout fly, originating from the River Dovey in Mid-Wales.

Half Chubby Chernobyl

Detailed instructions for tying a Half Chubby Chernobyl. Foam cutter by River Road Creations: https://www.riverroadcreations.com

Building a Better Bugger

Detailed instructions for building a better woolly bugger. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine.

Last Chance Purple Haze

Detailed instructions for tying a Last Chance Purple Haze. Tying table by TieCraft: https://www.tie-craft.com

Black Holographic Cormorant

Hook size 10 Thread Black 8/0 Body Dyed Green Peacock Herls Red Holo Rib Wings Black Marabou

Humongous Woolly Bugger

One of my favourite Lure for all Season. Hook size 8 L/S 4mm Brass Bead Thread Peacock Blue Tail Black Marabou with Silver Tinsel Body Holographic Opal Tinsel

Adams Irresistible

The most popular dry fly in the world with a spun deer hair body! Could it get any better? The full tutorial on tying the Adams irresistible.

Deer Hair Daddy Long Legs

During late summer & autumn large numbers of crane flies begin to hatch and loose the battle against the elements and end their life on the water as trout food.

Epic Fly Fishing For NZ Chrome Trout

Fishing For NZ chrome trout on some epic rivers from around New Zealand's central North Island. Caught loads of trout. Cheers Gareth

Sili Baetis Nymph

Silicone materials offer many possibilities. Colors and combinations with foundations give a lot of ideas. This is one of them ... a very natural nymph in sizes 12-8.

Hot Tip Bug

An easy to tie fly for all year round fishing.

How to Make a Simple Foam Body

For Daddy's / Crane Fly / Hoppers. All you need is a Needle, Thread, and Foam Sheet from any Craft Shop. Length, Thickness & Colour is your own choice.

Orange Ruthless

This one feather flat-wing is a cracking pattern not only for the salt, but when tied in black or olive is a great fresh water big fish pattern.

Sinfoil's Fry

One of the early British still water patterns created by Ken Sinfoil for catching 'fry bashing' trout. Fry bashing is the equivalent of a hatch but with newly hatched coarse fish fry.

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Galloups Sex Dungeon

The Swedish big streamer dude Andreas Andersson, have been behind the vice tying one of the "all-time-trophy-trout-finders", the articulated pattern – The Sex Dungeon, originally made by Kelly Gall

Grass Carp Salad

A very quick and easy, effective dry fly pattern for plant eating carp. The Mustad C67S super strong, egg, caddis hook, is kept afloat beautifully with this combination of CDC and marabou.

Big German Trout

For all of you who thought, Germany isn't big fish country: check this out! Have fun and stay save.

Wynn Orange Partridge

Orange Partridge variation by Jim Wynn. Includes herl head and “eyes” of orange.

Flyfishing for Grayling, Sweden

This film is about fishing in a small stream up in the north of Sweden. The water is limited to a small number of fishermen per year and you need a special authorization to fish.

MIDJ Emerger Indicator

A versatile pattern for lakes and rivers. Fish the MIDJ with a buzzer underneath on small stillwaters or with a small weighted nymph on the river.

CDC Emerger

A very simple but yet effective, all CDC emerger that uses a few nice CDC techniques for a super buoyant Hi-Vis emerger.

Wood Duck Nymph

A nice little nymph made from one wood duck flank feather. The speckled wood duck feather gives a very realistic nymph appearance to this quick and easy generic pattern.

Parachute Royal Wulff

One of the true classic trout flies and without doubt the best known from the Wulff series, first tied by Lee Wulff in the early 1930's.

Beatis Nymph

Size 12-8, weighted with lead. Nymph to penetrate deep parts. Effective in spring and early summer.

Split Tail Shad

EP (Enrico Puglisi) style flies are quite popular. They have been staples in many saltwater and warm water fly Fishermans boxes for years.

Delta Wing

Tying and fishing a dry fly that imitates both an emerger and a spinner. An easy to tie dry fly that's great for prospecting the water when no fish are rising.

Extended Body Isonychia Parachute

Detailed instructions for tying an Extended Body Isonychia Parachute fly. Tying table by TieCraft: https://www.tie-craft.com

Black Martinez

One of the first nymphs I ever tied and fished with. Although this has the appearance of a modern nymph it was first tied back in the early 1930's by Don Martinez from California.

Top Secret Midge

An extremely quick and easy tie for an extremely effective midge pattern. A great fishing pattern that only requires the most basic of tying skills.

Egg Laying Caddis

It's that time of year when an egg laying caddis is an essential addition to your fly box! Here's an easy pattern that is relatively quick to tie and works well.

Scruffy Squirrel

The scruffy squirrel nymph is a great all rounder and a good alternative to a hares ear.

Classic Grey & Green

Presenting the fourth Pattern of the Month: The Classic Grey & Green!

Olive GR Hare's Ear Nymph

This is a Great Pattern for Still Water Hook size 14 Curved Nymph Thread Black Tail Yellow Cock Hackle Body Yellow Hare's Ear Ribs Gold Tinsel

Killer Summer Midge

This is a Deadly Pattern in Summer on size 14-16-18 Thread Black 8/0 Thorax Peacock Herl Breather White Glo-Brite Thread

Small Stream Colorado

The production of “Small Stream Colorado” took me into the heart of John Denver’s renown Rocky Mountain high country near the Taylor River Lodge.

3 Lessons Learned in Competitive Fly Fishing

We welcome guest tier Rich Ferrara back, this time to share three lessons that he's learned from competitive fly fishing!

Bibio Cripple Midge Suspender

Materials Used; Hook, Tiemco 2487 size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Rib, Silver Tinsel Body, Black Seals Fur or Sub Thorax, Red and Black Seals Fur or Sub

Burnt Orange Booby Fly

Underwater action and full tying SBS on a hot Booby Fly, that effectively mimics the swimming action and profile of large insect larvae, like damselfly-, dragonfly- and hellgrammite larvae.

Balanced Pine Squirrel Streamer

Detailed instructions for tying a Balanced Pine Squirrel Streamer. Tying table by TieCraft: https://www.tie-craft.com

Snake Fly

A video on how to make a sea trout snake fly. The video walks and talks you through the whole process; from creating the mount through to the final product.

Stonfo Elite Vise Review

Tying flies is so much fun, but requires a few essential tools. One of the most critical is a vise, and in this video review, we examine the Stonfo Elite.

HESVO Shrimp

How to make a great shrimp/scud pattern with just two materials.

Small Olive CDC Jig Head Nymph

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Jig Force size 16 or Hanak H450 BL Thread, Uni-8/0 Olive Tail, Whiting Coq de Leon Fibres

Blue Winged Olive Emerger

A Blue Winged Olive emerger fly fishing pattern, which works really well on rivers for trout and grayling when BWOs are hatching.

Blue Winged Olive Dun

How to dress a Blue Winged Olive dry fly pattern in the adult / dun stage. This is a great fly for both river trout and grayling.

Deadly red wet fly

Film Critic Emerger

Thanks go out to Dave Allison for sharing the Film Critic with all of us. This Bob Quigley emerger has fooled a lot of fish over the years, and Dave's techniques and tips are excellent.

Risen fly reel review

Well its no secret that I love everything from Risen fly rods. But like all my reviews, I really like to make sure I test them extensively before I give my opinion.

Cranked Spinner

Stuart Croft Pattern inspired by Kelly Galloup..

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