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2019
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Sunburst Olive Kate Muddler

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The Best Fishing from the 2019 season!

Here is a quick rap up highlight reel of the 2019 fishing season from down here in New Zealand

Flyfishing a spring creek

Fancy Buzzer

I worked for some time to try and get this fly right and after several attempts and variations I have settled on this.

Muddy Rivers Grub

Great Pattern for High & Muddy Rivers, Hook size 10-12 Grub Thread Fluro Pink Body Orange Ostrich Herl Ribs Pink Beading Elastic 0.8mm

Water Boatman

Probably the most important water beetle when it comes to still waters. The water boatman is a quick and simple tie although semi realistic.

Micro Crayfish

I just moved to South Texas and small crayfish patterns tend to work very well for smallmouth bass, Guadalupe bass, panfish and the Rio Ciclids.

Jim's Smelt Bucktail

Jim's Smelt is a vibrant little bucktail that calls for 6 colors of hair plus some herl and flash to round out the wing.

IPN Cat Varient

There are so many great patterns for this time of year I am going to try and concentrate in the next few weeks to share them with you.

Hardy’s Salmon Flies

Another massive work on classic salmon flies from UK writer Martin Lanigan-O'Keeffe, this time on the flies from the House of Hardy.

Nala the Lab x

Finally got to head out fishing properly with my puppy Nala. She's a Lab x GSP and a beautiful dog.

Zonker with dumbbell resin eyes

This shows how I tie a Zonker fly it does not resemble the original pattern very closely but is tied in the Zonker style.

CDC/Quill Tenkara Fly

Palmered Shipman's

A super quick and easy variant of the still water classic, that never grows old.

Reversed Parachute Mayfly

A reversed parachute mayfly tied on a swimming nymph hook, that will give a very natural presentation. It can be fished as a dun or cripple and includes a few interesting techniques.

Spey Goby

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Trout in Sight

A short memory from last summer in the Swedish Lapland

Ear Bugs

Building easy segmented fly bodies with cheap silicone earring stoppers.

Reflections on the Loch

A book on UK style lake fishing for trout, written in a personal and entertaining - but still very informative - tone

WD40

The WD40 is a fantastic small baetis pattern. It's a quick, relatively easy tie even though it's best tied in size 16 and smaller.

Best Budget Vise?

In the next in our series of learning to tie flies, we get into some of the better options for a budget vise. Don't let a smaller budget deter you from learning to tie flies.

BWO Last Chance Cripple

Rene Harrop's Last chance cripple is an excellent option when fish are selectively picking off crippled or emerging mayfly.

Clan Chief

The Clan Chief is a great top dropper fly and works well for brown trout, seatrout, salmon and rainbows. A great bumble style fly that should be in every wet fly box.

Rusty Nail Chironomid

John Kent has a knack for chironomid fly patterns that catch big trout in still waters. While I was researching the fly pattern, I found the John ties this in a couple of different ways.

Thorax Dun

This easy but neat mayfly dun pattern has a couple of nice techniques and a wonderful finished footprint and profile, perfect for fooling even the most selective trout.

Black Beauty Midge

Detailed instructions for tying a Black Beauty Midge.

PT Shuttlecock

A pheasant tail shuttlecock that works well, both as an emerger and a cripple mayfly. A little nymph that floats vertically in the surface film.

Hot Spot Sedgehog

One of the best little caddis patterns around. With an additional Glo Brite hot spot, when pulled through the surface film, this will bring fish up, just about all year round.

The Gradac River in Serbia

Discover the myriad of opportunities that the Gradac River in Serbia has to offer.

Sasa Bencun Roka

Sasa Bencun Roka is a professional guide and fly tyer operating in Serbia.

Three Methods to Catch Trout

On this day a caught Trout using 3 different methods. indicator nymphing, dry fly, and swinging a fly on the 2 handed rod. good fun day on the river.

Parachute Yellow May Dun

Parachute dry flies are some of the most effective for different reasons. First of all (we are talking dry flies) they float well.

Rusty Nail Chironomid Var

John Kent has a knack for chironomid fly patterns that catch big trout in still waters. While I was researching the fly pattern, I found the John ties this in a couple of different ways.

Cruncher

An extremely popular pattern in the UK that is used from both boat and bank.

Fly Fishing in Swedish Lappland

Every year we head up North to Swedish Lappland.

Natural Quill

Duo

One who holds the camera - the other who watches. One who comments - the other focuses.

The Escape 1

Part 1. Three guys, some fly rods, and a camera. They escape the college life for an epic trip up north fly fishing for trout, and exploring the mountains.

Grace Kelly

The Grace Kelly is an excellent Irish mayfly pattern. It tends to work best on the point or middle dropper.

Fly fishing the flats for Bonefish

Earlier this month I was sent down to the Bahamas to round up some footage of bones on the flats.

Pirarucú - Amazon's Giant Arapaima

Here is Part II of Catch Magazine's Amazon series. Pirarucú is native term for arapaima, the ancient, air breathing, giant fish of Amazonian rivers and lakes.

Andrew Marshall

Andrew has been tying for some 35 or so years, much of that time in-hand without the aid of a vise.

Alan Petrucci

I have fished streamers ever since the first vacation we took to Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Rangeley Maine back in the mid 70's.

Hardy style reel cases

Leather maker Remus Stanescu describes the dirty work behind making a couple of Hardy style reel cases.

Mr. Mylar

The bristly and curly fibers of the mylar-tubing do not win many hearts at first glance.

Flyfishing back to NZ

Big Fish Crush Dry Flies

Last Day of my south island trip and it was an epic day. so many good trout both rainbows and browns caught on nymphs and a lot on dry flies.

Golden Olive & Dark Barred Ginger Bumble

Here is a nice bumble variation that has worked well for me on the Irish loughs and lochs across Scotland. I'm sure it'll be worth a try more widely.

Mini Stick

The mini stick is a great little variation on the stick fly caddis pattern. It works great fished in a team of wets, nymphs or in the washing line.

Looking for marble trout

Fly fishing in Slovenia.

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