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2017
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Our Water

Fly Fishing Appalachian Public Water - Full Film. This film is dedicated to the beautiful public waters of the Appalachian mountains.

From Belousiha with love

Finding love can be a struggle, so can catching Salmon. We made a short film on the topic, while fishing for Salmon on the Kola peninsula.

86,000 Miles of Streams

A cold water conservation story of wild trout and how their presence in Pennsylvania streams helps secure protection for the watershed in the face of shale gas development.

Hidden Gem Of The San Juan

McFly Angler and I had the pleasure of fishing and filming on a private stretch of the lower San Juan River.

Crazy Brown Shrimp

Brown shrimp are one of the most common foods for many of the fish species in the Gulf of Mexico. From Redfish, to Speckled trout, to Permit and even flounder.

Casey Underwood

American artist Casey Underwood does stunning and beautiful fish portraits using mixed techniques.

Amber Shrimp

Does the world really need more shrimp patterns? Well… sure it does.

Anvil Atlas Full Review

For the past year, I have been using the Anvil Atlas vice. While overall its a great vice for the money, there are a few things I have found that bug me a bit.

Making a Wiggle Tail Rig

Step by step instructions for a tandem hook wiggle tail rig for your pike and muskie tube flies.

SF Blend Fish Mask Baitfish

Step by step instructions for an easy bait fish imitation using a fish mask and SF blend. Tie it in a range of colours and sizes to catch anything from seatrout to bass to tuna.

Rattlesnake Streamer

The Rattlesnake Streamer is a large, articulated fly originated by US tyer and guide Ray Schmidt.

Turangi

Fly Fishing New Zealand - Mates & Fly Fishing. Fun, laughs and a few trout with Matt Hince and Mike Kirkpatrick last weekend out of Turangi, this clip has it all... even winter dry fly action!

Trutta Bavaria

A perfect Weekend. Flyfishing for Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout and Brook Trout in the Bavarian Mountains. I hope you like it. All the best Marc

October Caddis Euro Nymph

Detailed instructions for tying a October Caddis Euro Nymph.

Bleikja

In 2017 we visited Iceland and fished the Sog in Asgardur. The original plan was to target salmon, but then we came across a whole bunch of char carelessly sipping midges...

Strip Rattle and Roll

If you have ever fished for bass, you know that in most instances, a rattle helps attract them. They are also attracted big baits. Things that push lots of water.

Red Tag Hog Hopper

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Short Shank Special size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Body, Black Closed Cell Foam Tag/Tail, Red Wool

Baby Gonga

I can't take all the credit for the Baby Gonga. It was in fact given to me by an Angel who visited me in my sleep. The Angel told me that the streamer was a gift from God herself.

Hillbilly Bonefish

Carp fishing is said to be similar to bonefish fishing, just without the pristine water and beautiful tropical flats.

October Caddis Wet Fly

The October Caddis is one of the major prey insects for the late summer and fall months. There are many different versions of this popular insect and here is the wet fly pattern version I rely on.

Crazy Dad - Under Water Footage!

This small crawdad streamer works so well, I was catching fish I want even targeting with it. I went out fishing for carp, and got a carp and even some smallmouth bass.

Articulated Flies

One of the big things in fly tying these days is articulated flies. Utilizing two hooks, shanks or some other technique, flies get two or more parts linked together resulting in movement and size.

Blow Dry Baitfish

A little technique I have been experimenting with for tying hollow flies with compressed air. The technique can be adapted for spey and larger pike and salt water patterns.

Green and Gold

In this episode of Tie TV Niklaus Bauer will show us how to tie a pike fly with classic colours with a modern touch on it, ready to use with a dragon and wiggle tail.

Putah Creek

This is the story of Putah Creek — its heritage, its remarkable fishery, and the organization challenged with protecting its future.

Fishing the Lough Mask Part: 2

Chasing the brownies on the Lough Mask, Ireland. A la recherche des belles du lac Mask, Irlande.

Flashy Bream

Step by step instructions for a bream imitating flashabou pike fly. This style of fly can be tied in a variety of colours to suit different fishing conditions.

The heart of salmon fishing

SALMON FISHING: The heart of salmon fishing is a short film where we follow three guys on a venture to Norway. Two of the guys are chasing their first atlantic salmon on the fly.

Mic Drop

I give a step by step instruction on tying my Mic Drop, which is a mutli-articulated streamer featuring a Magic Head paddle tail for targeting species such as Brown Trout and Smallmouth Bass.

Plugging for florida Bass

A quick clip of some killer takes from LMB's down in florida 1 week before Irma tore through.. Hopefully everyone down south is safe and sound! thanks for watching, Dan

House builder caddis larva

This pattern imitates the larval stage of the house building caddis fly, and is one of the most important foods for trout and grayling, especially during the late autumn and winter.

The Introduction of Brown Trout to New Zealand

Please vote for our video at https://www.thinkable.org/submission_entries/D85JxV9n This is a film produced by Ben Pierce and mys

North of the Wall

The LOOP team fishing the opening days of the sea trout season on the Húseyjakvísl River in Iceland

Simple & Quick Egg

Lets be honest, most people think of egg patterns as "not real flies". While that may be true, no one can argue that they aren't effective.

Quick Minnow

Tying an quick,easy fly for perch

Tying Neat Heads

Over the years we found some tiers will tie a beautiful fly only to mess it up in the last few minutes they spend with it. Too often the fly ends up with a large, lop-sided head.

String Leech

String Leech tied as a tube fly - and featuring a cool little detail allowing the small trailer hook to stay close to the undulating zonker strip. For trout, salmon, steelhead and other predators.

Galloup's Sex Dungeon

Kelly Galloup's Sex Dungeon has been a big fish hunting fly from day one. This is my go to streamer pattern because of the motion and it flat out catches fish!

Floating the Animas

The Animas river is a tough river, but when you catch fish, they are good sized and energetic fish!

Pink Shrimp

Join our friend and England Youth International, Ben Beckwith, as he selects and ties his fly of the month for September 2017 - the Pink Shrimp.

Heavy Hackle One Feather

Early in our tying career we often had to use 4 or more India cape feathers to produce a heavily hackled dry fly.

Poly wing midge

An quick and effective hatching midge pattern that has saved the day many a time for me, just change the colour and size to match the hatch.

Smith's Butt Monkey

This is the original Butt Monkey streamer pattern designed by Scott Smith. It has a ton of motion for a single hooked fly, and has proven to be a big fish magnet.

Koz's Steelhead Kandy

Koz's Steelhead Kandy is a simple caddis pupa that is made from some pony bead lacing I got from the local craft store.

Yet another foam bug

Extended body foam bug. Simple to tie, short materials list: 2mm black and yellow foam, 3mm black foam, some krystal flash and flashabou dubbing.

Ian's Brass Ass

Detailed instructions for tying Ian's Brass Ass.

Evening Hair Wings

If your divided hair wings are not always evenly divided then this VERY simple tip from the Beattys is for you. It is Tip #2 originally published in Fly Tyer magazine.

Woodcock & Hare's Lug Spider

Materials Used; Hook Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Yellow Tag and Rib, Small Flat Gold Tinsel Body, Dyed Yellow Hare's Lug

Galloup's Silk Kitty

This is another great streamer pattern from Kelly Galloup. This fly combines bulk and motion with the marabou overwings and the hackle stem lateral lines.

MacKenzie Cascade

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Magni or Patriot Gold Double Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tag, Oval Gold Tinsel

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