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2020
Date Title Body Image

Golden Brown

A simple to tie mayfly nymph. Shaded organza fibres tied in along the side of the thorax give this nymph great legs.

Up-Winged Parachute Fly

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Squirrel, Blue & Silver

Malcolm Edwards was a well known sea trout angler from the River Rheidol near Aberystwyth in Wales, UK.

Guides Choice Hares Ear Jig

Guides choice hares ears are in my opinion one of the best summer months swinging flies.

Moc's Cert / Teifi Terror

How to dress Moc Morgan's sea trout fishing pattern the Moc's Cert, or the Teifi Terror - modern dressing. As appears in Steffan Jones' book; Sea Trout Tips, Tricks & Tribulations.

Yellow May/Sulphur Dun Emerger

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Sea Trout Secrets 8 spin and fly

The full 8th video in the series about sea trout fishing on the coast - all for free!. The 7th video has also been released for free.

Sea Trout Secrets 7 spin and fly

The full 7th video in the series about sea trout fishing on the coast - all for free!. The 8th video has also been released for free.

Cased Caddis jig

Cone Crab

Fishing the tropics for bonefish is strictly addictive, and it is hard to find a more perfect species to target with a flyrod than the bonefish… strong, shallow water and spooky is some of the word

Braided Blue Damsel

It's soon that time of year again! This adult blue damsel is a semi realistic but easy pattern to tie.

Ponoi Green/Blue

The Ponoi Green is a well know Atlantic Salmon fly originating from the Ponoi River on the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

All Purpose Emerger

Without doubt one of my absolute most productive trout & grayling patterns.

Hot Butt Caddis

Another easy tie with basic materials that is guaranteed to catch. An elk hair caddis variant that has a little extra attractor factor.

Pay Day Midge

A real quick and easy basic material hatching midge pattern, that can be fished static or twitched to give a little movement. One of my go-to flies for hatches of midge on still water.

The Motherload Diaries

Coming real soon!

Fly Fishing Tips for Beginners

Harrison Hughes of Black Mountain Cinema joins us to offer three great fly fishing tips. Geared towards beginners, the tips that Harrison shares are applicable to all levels of fly fishers.

Flashbelly

Body glass and tinsel tied over squirrel dubbing becomes a light catching bar along the belly of this jig-hook nymph.

Chuck Caddis

Detailed instructions for tying Eric Leiser's Chuck Caddis.

Teeny Nymph

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Rib, Fine Copper Wire Body and Legs, Natural Brown Pheasant Tail Fibres

Olive Shuttlecock

Materials Used; Hooks, Tiemce 2487 BL size 22 and Fulling Mill Short Shank Special size 14 Thread, UTC 70 Yellow Olive Body, Uni-Mylar Clear

Galdralöpp

How to dress the Galdralöpp fly, which is an Icelandic bibio hopper pattern for big, wild brown trout in their rivers.

The Return

Dave Sweet has spent over a decade helping to bring back the Yellowstone Cutthroat from the brink of extinction.

Hothead EMB

This is a fantastic nymph pattern that anyone heading to fish for sea trout in Argentina should not be without.

Yellow May Emerger

A tried and tested Yellow May emerger fly pattern, which covers the emerging / hatching stage of the Yellow May Dun. It would also cover you for the Sulphur Dun fly hatch.

Gandhi's Flip Flop

A well know dry fly pattern from Iceland for targeting brown trout. A simple fly to dress with minimal materials. The main feature if the foam back, which looks like a flip flop - hence the name.

Yellow Peril

How to dress the Yellow Peril fly. This is a fantastic sea trout fly, especially on the River Towy in Wales. Dressed on a stinger / tandem / secret weapon mount.

Einars’ Floating Foam Caddis Pupa

A great and high floating caddis fly made with foam as a base material and a very simple and cool technique.

Wild sea trout fishing in West Zealand

Really good weekend. Great action, great fishing and great people.

Tapâm - full video

Tapâm is a multi award-winning fly fishing film classic. See the fill 30 minute video here.

Great seatrout fishing spring 2020

I hooked and landed 12 sea trout. Lots of action in this video.

Cahill Frenchie Jig Nymph

The Cahill Frenchie is a more representational jig nymph, walking that line between emerger and Euro nymph. Will Light Cahill mayflies be emerging on the stream bottom, where this is fished?

CDC & Elk

The CDC and ELK Hair Caddis / Sedge is an incredibly easy pattern to dress with just two ingredients, but is a very effective pattern.

MP 33 Mayfly Nymph

A Marc Petitjean pattern, with many different CDC techniques. Its the proportions that you have to balance with this pattern, tail length, short abdomen, long thorax & long slender head.

Shrimp shells

Preparation of the shell for a shrimp, scud or crayfish

Mini Shrimp

Can be used anywhere for sea trout

Flyfishing the Oreti

Looks Like Fish Food - LLFF

Imitate anything from a midge to a mayfly using just organza ribbon.

RS 2

The RS 2 or Ray's Semblance 2 is, in my humble opinion, one of the best fishing flies ever designed. If you haven't fished with the RS 2, you don't know what you have been missing.

Danger Baby

Detailed instructions for tying Theo Bakelaar's Danger Baby.

F.T. Ant

F.T. Ant - Dry Fly Tying Hook - Partridge SLP #18 Thread - Semperfli Waxed Thread 12/0 Black Body - 3mm Foam Tube Spot - White CDC Hackles - Grizzly

Seatrout and buddies spring 2020

We hooked some good trout on this trip. Hope you enjoy it!

El Atardecer

This fly is a very good pike fly and it have a lot of movement in the water.

Detached Bodied Black Midge Hopper

A small, black midgy foam hopper

Spring Treasures

Fly fishing for rare mountain golden grayling and trout in Slovakia. Searching for very rare high mountain wild grayling and brown trout in untouched Slovak nature. Music:

Emergent Sparkle Pupa

Gary LaFontaine's little emerger that has become a modern classic. This simple technique shows you how to create the gas filled shuck case of an emerging caddis fly to great effect.

Flash Pike Streamer

This is a fast, good and proven pike fly. Very cheap to tie but incredibly effective. This fly will and have found loads of big pike. We like this fly and also have a few in the box.

Sunray Shadow Double

The Sunray Shadow in double hook format. An incredibly successful sea trout and salmon fly, especially for fresh run fish.

Coq de Leon Dark Olive Spinner

Whitings Coq de Leon Dark Olive Spinner..

Extended Wood Duck Parachute

EWP - Extended Wood Duck Parachute - Dry Fly Tying

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