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2019
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Traffic Light Quill Buzzer

Hook size 10-12 Thread Hot Orange & Black Body Natural Quill Cheeks Hot Orange Biot Mirage Tinsel Flash Back

Large Adult CDC MayFly

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Nymph Special size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tag, Black Thread Tail Whiting Coq-de-Leon Fibres

Bob brought two books

GFF partner Bob Petti visited, and even though we didn’t fish or tie flies, we talked quite a bit about fishing… and he brought two books

City lakes can be fun as well!

I was able to catch a bass, and my kid caught a nice bluegill! It surely was a good day, especially watching my kid bring in the best fighting fish he has caught yet.

Huge Trout from Man made Canals

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Golden Pinner

Tom Bank's Golden Pinner Streamer Fly Tom is a New England fly tyer and angler who loves to fish the big lakes of Maine and New Hampshire. He's been...

Taking a toddler fishing in a pack!

Taking a toddler with you fly fishing may seem a daunting task, but it doesn't have to be!

Ponty Perdi

A small perdigon pattern which is a great point fly for fishing fast water for trout and grayling.

River Snook

River Fly Fishing for snook in Southwest Florida is an excellent alternative to pursuing this prized gamefish in the mangroves or the open coastal water

Quilled Yellow Owl

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Super Grub size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Cahill Body, Light Olive Peacock Quill Wing, CDC Feathers and Roe Deer

Winding a folded feather

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to wrap a folded feather to get a swept back hackle.

Peacock herl tied in by barb tips

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how peacock herl can be tied in tip first to create a slightly tapered herl body.

Peacock herl basic anatomy

Wayne Luallen introduces the basic anatomy of peacock herl.

Large Summer Dun

Great Pattern in Summer & Autumn Body made with Foam Hook size 14 Grizzly Cock Hackle with Brown Partridge

Predator

Skip shows you how to tie his ultra-popular foam fly, the Predator, in both thin and fat style. Panfish, bass, trout...you name it, fish love it.

Loosening matted dubbing

Wayne Luallen shows an easy way of loosening a matted clump of dubbing.

Damp or dry fingers when Dubbing

Wayne Luallen covers various ways of keeping your fingers suitably damp for applying dubbing.

Removing hair from a stacker

Wayne Luallen considerw what direction you want to remove stacked hair from a hair stacker when it's ready to be tied in.

Feed Dubbing

Wayne Luallen demonstrates a dubbing technique where you feed dubbing from your fingers onto the thread as you are winding it on.

Forking three tails

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to tie in and fork three dry fly tail filaments.

Forking two tails

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to tie in and fork two dry fly tail filaments.

Touch Dubbing

Wayne Luallen shows how to apply dubbing by simply touching the dubbing to a lightly waxed thread.

Bulkhead - Ultimate Water Pusher!

One of the best bass and saltwater flies created in my opinion is the reverse bulkhead fly. This water pushing, flowing, and flashy fly is a variation on Bob Popovics design.

The Wicked

Stefan Larsson – The Man, The Myth, The Legend! This swedish flyfisher and flytyer is wellknown in Scandinavia for his passion for troutfishing and best of all with a dryfly.

Songo Smelt Bucktail

The Songo Smelt is a sweet little bucktail perfect for casting out in search of cruising landlocked salmon, brook trout and bass.

Splott Shrimp

I've used UV-resin in the past for fly tying, but never really come up with a pattern where it gave any benefit over using varnish and some patience.

Antron Caddis Larva

An Antron yarn segmented abdomen makes this easy caddis larva a nice alternative to dubbed bodies.

Green Drake Emerger

This green drake emerger is an effective pattern when there are prolific hatches and the fish are playing hard to get.

SBT

The SBT or 'small black thing' is a pattern that I would not go trout fishing without.

Faroese redemption

Make sure your waders are suited for winter fishing and remember warm socks – as well as a local guide. Then you are ready for the north Atlantic fishing paradise.

BWO

This little blue winged olive nymph normally tied in sizes 16-20 is a quick and easy tie that works well as a generic pattern for most small mayfly nymphs.

Lightning Bug

One of the best selling nymphs in North America and rated by many as one of the top ten must have trout flies!

Large Mayfly Nymph

A mixed media nymph that is a real easy tie but still ticks all the boxes for a good large burrowing mayfly nymph imitation.

Jassid

The little Jassid is from Vince Marinaro's book A Modern Dry Fly Code and was an extremely popular pattern until Jungle cock became more difficult to obtain.

Soldier Palmer Variant (Bumble)

Hook size 12 Thread Red 8/0 Body Hot Orange Ostrich Herl Brown Cock Hackle with Gold Oval Tinsel Claret PT Legs Orange Grizzly Hen Hackle for Front

Isonychia Nymph

Detailed instructions for tying Preston Jenning's Isonychia Nymph.

Fly fishing with bread flies - it doesn't get any better!

No matter wether you fish for trout or carp – fish simply love to eat bread!

Live Edge Epoxy River Fly Boxes

How to make life edge and epoxy fly boxes similar to epoxy or glass river tables.

Ham & Cheese Blob

The Ham & Cheese Blob is an excellent top dropper fly pattern for pulling on trout waters.

Flashy Deceiver

A flashy variant of the Bucktail Deceiver tied 5-6 inches long for easy casting, great movement and attraction for those toothy predators.

Fly Fishing Treasures

I didn’t know that I was interested in collecting fly fishing paraphernalia – until I read Steve Woit’s book

Female Caddis

This egg depositing caddis is a great pattern when the egg laying females are on the water. A simple tie that can be a game changer.

Double Decker

This is a simple technique for a double wing comparadun, that can be tied in various sizes and shades to imitate a whole load of low riding mayfly duns.

Great Grey Caddis

A large adult caddis fly for the mid summer hatch. With a wonder wing and a mixed hackle / over wing, of partridge and medium grey dun Herbert Miner rooster.

Huck Sculpin

Originally Andreas tied the Huck Sculpin as an articulated fly on the Ahrex NS110 and a shank. Here he converted the cool sculpin pattern to the TP650 hook.

Craft Fur Baitfish

Baitfish patterns can often trick for larger predators.

Montana Lure Variation

Great Pattern all year round,

Teal & Black

Clyde Style Wet Fly. Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mll All-Purpose size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Rib, Fine Silver Wire Body, Black Thread

Clear Stretch Grey Squirrel Nymph

New Pattern which has worked great Last Week Hook 2X Long Shank Thread Grey & Rusty Brown Tail Grey Squirrel Tail Hair Body 0.8mm Clear Stretch Elastic

Simple Spanflex Spring Buzzer

Thread; Black 8/0 Hook size 12-14 Grub Olive Spanflex 0.5mm Cheeks Orange Spanflex

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