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2020
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Green Machine

The green machine is a popular Canadian dry fly for salmon that has travels well and has taken good fish in Russia, Scotland and Scandanavia too.

Great Red Sedge/Murrough

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Kavik

The Kavik is a simple zonker-based streamer, well suited for a lot of different fish, and easy to adapt in color and material choice

Redfish Cracklin

The Redfish Crack is a very effective pattern for many species like speckled trout, redfish, and flounder in the gulf of Mexico.

Paraloop & CDC March Brown

A great river fly with a little different hackle technique, that results in a nice wing effect and realistic footprint.

Fabien Moulin's Deer Hair Parachute

Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one. See the article here

Moulin’s Deer Hair Parachute

Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.

Cowboy Fly

Fishing for char in Greenland amazing - but they can be as tricky as any other place on the world, the "problem" is that you can see the fish, which makes the frustration even bigger...

Foam Body Mayfly

A foam extended body mayfly with a parachute hackle that will float all day long and then some.

Nervous Blonde

The nervous blonde is a bleached elk hair and CDC adult caddis fly, that can be seen at a distance even in low light.

Danica Mayfly Nymph

A nice, not so difficult semi realistic nymph, for one of the largest mayflies. This one has a couple of good techniques that you can use in other patterns.

Midge Emerger

This 'Midge Emerger' has proved quite effective for me when used to imitate emerging midge and/or crippled midge that are trapped in the meniscus and being picked off by the trout.

Five Hair Fly

Beyond the Bridge

A celebration of a year of urban fly fishing..

Stonfo Travel Tool Set

It's time for an unboxing! Traveling a lot in the last few years for fly fishing trips and fly tying events, I value the ability to stay organized.

Sterling Jig Nymph

We welcome back Mr. Kevin Compton of Performance Flies.

Making a George Grant Hair Hackle

Italian Giuseppe Finardi demonstrates how to weave a hair hackle for a George Grant nymph, as described in the article here: http

George Grant Nymph

US fisherman and fly tyer George Grant came up with a type of nymph where both body and hackle uses special techniques.

Dirty Yellow Opossum Zonker

The Dirty Yellow is always the 1st go to fly in the beginning of the salmon season in Denmark.

Rubber Leg Hares Ear

A buggy rubber leg hares ear, that works great as a generic nymph. Tie them in light and dark hares ear with your choice of colour for the wing case.

The Foam Fly

Fishing for char in Greenland is spectacular in every way. The scenery is fantastic, the fishing is amazing - and for some reason the chars react aggressive on skating foam-flies.

These Waters

A Texas Hill Country Fly Fishing Film. This is a cinematic film capturing the beauty of the Texas Hill country.

Alaska Fly Fishing with a Mouse Fly

With more than 663,268 square miles of land, water and wildlife to its name, the state of Alaska has always been a magnetic draw for me and my camera.

Purple Perdigon

Very simple, very quick and very effective. A fast sinking pattern for use on the point or on a dropper above a heavier nymph.

Everglades Special

The Everglades Special is an EP style saltwater streamer fly that is a specific coloration. This is a popular color pattern for, you guessed it, the everglades.

Bever's Better Buckskin

One of my favorite free-living caddis larva patterns comes from the vise of Colorado’s Luke Bever.

Phat and Phunky Pheasant Tail Nymph

Detailed instructions for tying the Phat and Phunky Pheasant Tail nymph.

Spotting Large Trout in Private Pristine Stream

I was lucky enough to be invited out into one of the most untouched and beautiful rivers i have seen on New Zealand's North Island.

Fishing For Huge Trout in local river!

Fly Fishing the Tongariro river in New Zealand's north island with my dog Nala. caught both rainbow and brown trout on nymphs and dry flies.

Oystercatcher

The Oystercatcher taking inspiration from the bird,is a nice modern hair wing colour combination that has proven effective in Scotland and Scandinavia.

Squid Head Billfish Fly

This is a different take on the standard billfish tube fly. The Squid heads are from Ron Blair in Canada who has had some good results in testing them in South America.

Dave's White Widow

One of Dave's top 3 flies for Trout Spey on skagit lines. The White Widow Streamer is a great streamer pattern for trout and even warm water species. VIDEO BONUS:

Egg Sucking Leech Tube Fly

How To Tie an Egg Sucking Leech Tube Fly For Trout Spey and Steelhead - A quick and easy Egg Sucking Leech streamer for Trout Spey swinging. Trout Spey Fly Tying tutorial.

Black Hot-Spot Pheasant Tail

Great Pattern all Year Round, Hook size 14-16-18 Thread Black & Hot Orange Tail Black Cock Hackle Body Black Pheasant Tail with Green Holo Tinsel Ribs

Golden Hare Nymph

Hares are very good lures. The constructions based on this material are different and the multitude of ideas is unlimited. This version is mainly a guide nymph tied on hooks 10 - 14.

The One Trout Spey Fly That Started it All

How To Tie Trout Spey Streamers - The one fly that started it all! Learn how to tie one of Dave's very first trout spey flies.

Flashback Damsel Nymph

This is a great pattern to fish your favorite stillwater from April into November. I like to cast these over weed beds and close to shore reeds.

Fish Taco

Jeff Hickman's Fish Taco Fly is a well-known steelhead catching fly. This version is a slight variation of the original Fish Taco for Trout Spey and Skagit Fishing.

Trout Spey Intruder

How To Tie A Trout Spey Intruder - a quick and easy Mini Trout Intruder Streamer Fly. Trout Spey Fly Tying tutorial.

Spring Olive Emerger

Great Pattern for Spring & Summer Hook # 12 Thread Olive Body Yellow Hare's Ear Rib Green Tinsel Post Yellow CDC & Deer Hair

Delta Wing Caddis

A delta wing caddis with an interesting body technique that can be put to good use in many other caddis patterns.

Comet

The Comet with its classic colour scheme is a fantastic salmon tube, both for spring fish and the big fish in the back end of the season.

Fish of a lifetime! What's yours?!?

What's your fish of a lifetime? Is it that GT you saw on Instagram, the native brook trout a few miles from your house, or is more than just a fish?

Pheasant Rump Baitfish

This past fall I had the pleasure to tie along side Jason Taylor at the International Fly Tying Symposium (2019), where Jason showed me a pattern called the Pheasant Rump Deceiver coming in around

Black&Olive nymph

Very good fly for difficult trout. With its reflections, it provokes aggression and willingness to attack.

Oddjob

Gets down deep and gets the job done. A great point fly for euro-nymphing for grayling and early season trout.

Anthony- a fly fishing story

Anthony is probably only one grayling which has a name.

Copper John

The copper John really does not mimic many species of aquatic bugs. In fact, it doesn't really resemble any of them.

2nd Worm

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Devil Bug

A remarkably simple pattern, that shouldn't be underestimated!

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