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2019
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Mayfly Spinner

This Wally wing mayfly is a semi-realistic spinner, that is fun to tie for those of you that enjoy this type of pattern. Not only a good looking fly but also a great fishing fly!

Madam XXL

A simple tutorial for tying perfect bullet heads. This XXL variant of one of the great attractor flies, has accounted for at least 3 of my top 10 largest trout on dry fly.

Thunder Egg

The Thunder Egg is a simple fly pattern to add to your arsenal of steelhead flies. It's also great for salmon and trout.

Hot Spot Pheasant Tail

A quick and easy pheasant tail nymph with a UV hot spot attractor wing case. For those cold days grayling fishing.

Flashy Bugger

A real big fish fly. As the name suggests, a woolly bugger with that little extra flash to increase the attractor value.

Lacewing Moth

Lacewing Moth/Passion Vine Hopper Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Ultimate Dry Fly size 16 Thread, Uni-8/0 Rusty Dun Rib, Fine Copper Wire Body, Pheasant Tail

Spanish Slik Body Dry Fly

Materials Used: Hook, Fulling Mill Ultimate Dry Fly size 16 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Chill Tail, Coq de Leon Light Speckled Rib, Yellow Silk Thread

Micro Fritz Diawl-Bach

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Comp Heavyweight size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Fire Orange Tail, Natural Brown/Ginger Cock Fibres Rib, Fine Copper Wire

Fly Fish Jardines De La Reina

This is the first of hopefully many trips to Cuba. It was an unbelievable experience and an unforgettable way to spend a week.

Top Secret Midge

Tying small flies can be a daunting task, but starting out with some simple flies and larger sizes can make the journey a little easier to handle.

A 10.000$ fishing trip… Is it worth it?

In 2018 a bunch of German guys made their way on the Seychelles.

Devin Olsen's Blowtorch

Detailed instructions for tying Devin Olsen's Blowtorch.

Rollover CDC Mayfly

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-purpose Medium size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Rusty Brown Tail.Cock Pheasant dyed Yellow Rib, Small Oval Gold Tinsel or Fine Gold Wire

El Grande

How James Widmaier caught a record breaking sailfish during his 50th wedding anniversary stay with his wife in Costa Rica

Loop Dubbing

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to make and use a dubbing loop.

Standard Dubbing

Wayne Luallen shows how to do plain dubbing on a single thread.

Bob's Backswimmer

During the spring and fall, you can find an abundance of water boatman and backswimmers habituating in still water fisheries oblivious to the trout.

Fly fishing New Zealand - Chapter 3 & 4

OneFly went to the other side of the world to conquer the trouts of dreams. Did they do it? Of course not, they are OneFly, they don't do fish.

James Widmaier

I have been fly fishing and tying flies for 60 years. My journeys included trout, salmon, and saltwater adventures in Canada, Costa Rica, and principally the United States.

Moh-Moh

The Moh-Moh (mohair mohican) is a versatile pattern for imitating sedge/caddis pupae.

The Black Death

A simple, effective and easy to tie swinging fly for trout. This streamer is a quick tie and is perfect for Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout and pretty much any aggressive predator that swims.

Blae and Black Variant

Thread Black 8/0 Hook size 12 Tail Pheasant Tippet Red Ribs Ice Blue Tinsel Hackle Black Hen Wings Mallard Primary Feathers

Elk Hair Caddis Wing

Wayne Luallen shows how to tie an elk hair wing, useful for many caddis patterns like the Elk Hair Caddis or the CdC&Elk.

Intruder conversions

I got the crazy idea to convert some Danish sea trout and salmon flies to intruders. It worked out surprisingly well.

Bibio Pheasant Tail

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Comp Heavyweight Black Nickel size 12 Thread, Pearl Micro Glint Tail, Dyed Black Pheasant Tail Fibres Rib, Pearl Micro Glint

Thread Trap

Wayne Luallen demonstrates an easy way to catch materials and secure them without having them roll on the hook shank when wrapping thread over them.

Wayne's Tying Tips

Tying tips and techniques in small,concentrated, quick-to-watch, easy-to-catch videos.

Stacking Deer, Elk & Moose

A few tips to properly stack elk and deer hair by Wayne Luallen.

Hand Stacking Bucktail

Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to tame the sometimes difficult bucktail and get the tips even, just using you hands

Stacking Calf Tail

Wayne Luallen gives a few tips on selecting and stacking calf tail.

Split Thread Dubbing

Wayne Luallen shows how to use the split thread dubbing technique in fly tying.

The Flying Flash Carpet

Look! It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s the Flying Flash Carpet! A pike fly out of this world.

My Biggest Fish of the Season.

Fly fishing the Tongariro river with only a few hours to spare, objective was to catch a brown trout which is pretty hard in this river.

Which Weight Rod is For You?

Fly Rod Breakdown. AFFTA: https://www.affta.org/member-services/industry-standards/

Fly Fishing Sweden: HOT or NOT?

IKEA? H&M? …or Zlatan? What's the best about Sweden…? RIGHT: The fishery! Fly fishing in Sweden simply kicks ass !!

Fly fishing New Zealand - Chapter 1 & 2

OneFly went to the other side of the world to conquer the trouts of dreams. Did they do it? Of course not, they are OneFly, they don't do fish.

Flashback Phasant Tail

Caddis Larva

Hook size 10 Grub Thread Olive 8/0 Body Nymph Skin Yellow Bead 3.8mm Tungsten Hackle Partridge with Hare's Ear

Polar Alive Shrimp

Crazy Charlie

Without doubt the most famous bonefish fly. This simple pattern with a crazy name is well worth tying if you are fishing the salt.

Using bead chains

Plain and simple bead chain is one of the cheapest fly tying materials around, but very useful and a great addition to many flies.

Flies for a friend

A good friend offered me a macro flash he didn't use any more in exchange for a handful of flies

Fight and Run

Sometimes you have to fight hard and even run to land your trophy fish.

Sunrise Flatwing

A great pattern that creates the illusion of volume while still remaining light and easy to cast.

Hardy's Favourite

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail, Golden Pheasant Tippet Rib, Red Floss Body, Peacock Herl

The Mörrum Fly

The Mörrum fly has been named after the south Swedish river Mörrum, but is also sometimes referred to as The Grünewalder after its originator, Danish Jan Grünwald

Mirror Dip ($3 Dip / Serendipity var)

I recently went out for a good long walk in the cool winter air of Southern Ontario and decided to listen to Dave Stewart and Pat Dorsey on the Wet Fly Swing podcast.

Tying better flies

Fabien Moulin aims to tie some really good looking flies, and ponders a bit about how to improve as a fly tyer.

Quill Body Buzzer

A quick early season midge larvae, that with a little change in colour and size, is a good generic pattern for most buzzers.

Steelhead Thing

This is a pretty basic pattern utilizing a few materials that make it pop.

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