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2018
Date Title Body Image

CDC & Elk Variant

One of my favorite creek flies for trout is the CDC & Elk. This is one of my most productive variations on Hans Weilenmann's infamous original.

Crashed!

Expensive day on the river. lost my drone to the bush with some careless flying, spooked some fish and lost another. fly fishing for trout in New Zealand

Magic Midge

The Magic Midge is a fly pattern from southern Alberta fly tyer, Brent Schlenker. Brent fishes some of Alberta's best stillwater ponds and this midge will find some real slabs of pothole rainbow.

Black Zulu

Classic wet fly tying, The first fly I ever caught a trout on. I guess I was eight or nine years old, and I didn't even have a fly rod back then.

Dubby Bunny Baby Bow

This fly works awesomely for bass. I have tied it in many color combos already. One perch coloration, a baby brown trout coloration, and now a baby rainbow coloration.

Yellow Sally (Isoperla) Stonefly

I've been busy tying a few dry flies for my small creek fly box and these Yellow Sally flies are great for covering the Isoperla that hatch late April - August.

Hare's Ear Stillwater Nymph

Great pattern in all weather conditions. Works really well in spring & early summer.

Guiding USA couple into fish of their dreams!

Great day guiding Chris and Meagan from Colorado, they both caught great New Zealand brown trout on the fly rod

Opening season!

Pass Lake Special

The Pass Lake Special is an old soul with fuzzy origins. Claim for its genesis comes from Labrador, Washington and the most popular from Wisconsin.

Green storage

My fly tying room and office is slowly taking shape - and color. A set of shelves and small chests were painted green.

Dream Stream

Pink Squirrel Nymph AKA The Persuader

The Pink Squirrel Nymph or as it may also be known, the Persuader is a fly pattern designed by John Bethke of Westby, Wisconsin.

Farkas' doubles

I get regular mails from Italian master salmon fly tyer Stefano Farkas. A couple of his recent flies were special.

Why the Klinkhåmer works so well

I met the Klinkhammer fly inventor Hans van Klinken while fly fishing in Kuhmo. He explains why Klinkhamer is so effective fly.

Rising Trout

A short cut with a very hungry brown trout.

How to Tie a Perfection Loop Knot

How to Tie a Perfection Loop Knot. The perfection loop knot is one of the best fishing knots to learn. You can use it any time you need a solid sturdy loop off a main line.

Olive French Partridge Mayfly

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Olive Tail, Natural Cock Pheasant Tail Fibres Rib, Gold Wire

Black Widow Muddler

Way back when I started flyfishing for seatrout in saltwater on the Danish coast... few people did that. There weren't many fly patterns developed for this new fishing.

Holo Midge

This simple little midge fly pattern can be tied in a number of colors. My top colors are the black/purple, red and orange.

Frenchie - On a normal hook

The Frenchie is commonly tied on a jig hook, and usually fished using the euro nymphing style.

Easiest Baitfish Streamer on Planet Earth

Materials You Need: Hook: Maruto, s19 {#2} Thread: Dyneema 55 Tail: Bucktail {Red} Body: Furabou or Long Chenille or strip of Craft Fur

Simi Seal Leech

Using Arizona Simi Seal dubbing for a Leech is one of my go to patterns. It comes in so many colors and there are so many variations it makes it hard not to fill a box.

Pearl Alevin Baitfish Minnow

Hook: Tiemco, 5262 , #4 Thread: Dyneema Tail: Fleshabou (Mirage) Eyes: Epoxy Eyes, 6-7mm Glue: UV Cure Resin (Bug-Bond)

Emperor Dragonfly Nymph

Crocheted nymph

Kaspar Green Caddis Larva

Rhyacophila nymph

Grayling Paradise

Small stream + large graylings = Grayling paradise A couple of summers ago we hade the fortune to visit a stretch of water that had been closed to the public for fifteen years.

SBR Hendrickson Nymph

Detailed instructions for tying an SBR Hendrickson nymph.

Hendo Hammer

Detailed instructions for tying John Collin's Hendo Hammer.

Parachute Adams

One the most successful patterns. I have used Grey Dun Polypropylene Yarn for the body,

Sepia Dun

The Leptophlebia marginata and vespertina or sepia and claret dun are two very abundant mayflies that prefer more acidic waters like, hill lochs and forest lakes.

The Yellow

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McPhail Emerger Caddis

Hook, Fullling Mill Czech Nymph size 16 Thread, Uni8/0 Dk.Brown Shuck, Poly-Pro Yellow Barred with a Brown Marker Pen Legs, Brown Partridge Fibres

Streamtease

The Optic fly was released by ABU in 1967 as "a streamer of tremendous killing power" - and that label wasn't all wrong.

Topwater Sea Trout Fly

In this episode of Tie TV, Steffan Jensen will tie a topwater foam fly for sea trout fishing.

Fly Tier's Reunion 2018

In this video, I give details related to Chuck Furimsky's "Fly Tier's Reunion," April 27, 2018. This event will take place at Seven Springs, inside their Sporting Clay's Lodge.

Valley of Kings

Searching for Kings in the far south of Chilean Patagonia on our latest hosted trip in January 2018 with Magallanes Fly Fishing. Big rivers, high winds and big Chinook salmon.

Hardy Perfect Taupo Fly Reel

Original Vintage 1958-1962 Taupo.

Fuzzy Bugger

Part Woolly Bugger and part Fuzzy Wuzzy. Started out as a Woolly Bugger tied with the cool speckled Whiting Coq De Leon hen feathers.

Mayfly Dun

When the big flies are on the water you need a pattern that ticks all the boxes. Heres a mayfly dun that gives a great footprint and is easy to tie.

Sea Trout Fishing in Denmark

In this episode of FLY TV, Steffan Jensen goes sea trout fly fishing in Denmark together with Allan Pedersen.

Para Dun BWO

A simple little mayfly dun, that not only represents a blue winged olive but just with a little change in size and colour can be made to represent many other small mayflies.

FNF Floating Fry

Materials Used Hook, Fulling Mill 35085 size 8 Thread, Uni-8/0 or 6/0 Fire Orange Tail, Pearl Krystal Flash Body, FNF Daphnia Egg White and Safety Orange Fritz

I Totally lied

Trying to catch brown trout on the fly on the Tongariro river in New Zealand.

The Fishing was better than expected!

On call, But still manage a couple New Zealand rainbow trout on the fly rod.

Brown trout, dry flies, lost in a forest!

Me and Buddy Drew head up a river i never really explored, i will be now as i found some great water and fish. fly fishing for New Zealand brown trout on dry flys, EPIC!!

Deerhair Dun

My favourite kind of no-hackle dry fly. I use natural wool, that absorbs any kind of fly floatant easily.

Caught between a book and a hard place

I was involuntarily involved in a disagreement between two authors and their publisher, and have now placed myself in a tight spot

Squirmy Estaz Egg

I've been tying a ton of Squirmy Wormy flies over the past year or so and I usually end up with a little tag of leftover material for every fly I tie.

Modern Nymphing Elevated

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