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2017
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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

Glitter Shrimp

The Glitter Shrimp is an old Danish fly pattern that's been used for fishing the winter seatrout.

Wiggle Wagon V2 0

An articulated fly with a wiggle tail

Double Bunny Clouser Minnow

The clouser minnow is one of the most effective and popular streamers ever made. With any popular fly, there comes variations of it.

Beaver Caddis

The fur equivalent of CdC. A real simple pattern all tied with only one 5 cm strip of beaver fur spun in a dubbing loop!

Animas River Wading

If you remember a few weeks back, I went fishing the San Juan River with Fresh Salt Fishing, and we had a great time! We caught many Brown Trout, and one was really really large!

Using Dubbing Wax

Often fly tiers don't use dubbing wax because they have not had good results doing so. This short tutorial might provide a different approach to the dubbing-with-wax process.

Cottus Gobi Sculpin

The sculpin or bullhead as they are also known have a large flat head, big fins and a tapering body and are a favourite food of big trout.

The Trude Hackle

Tips #1- The Hill. This is the first Tips & Tricks Gretchen & Al Beatty published in Fly Tyer magazine a few years ago.

Gary Lafontaine Caddis Pupa (Variant)

Materials Used; Hook, TMC 2487 size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Lt.Cahill Trailing Shuck and Overbody, Tan Antron/Yarn Back, 1/8 Scud Back Brown from Hareline

Peacock Caddis

Detailed instructions for tying a Peacock Caddis.

X Caddis

The X-Caddis comes from Yellowstone fishing guru Craig Matthews. Craig is the guy who brought us the Sparkle Dun and a host of other effective patterns, trademarked by their simplicity.

Nocturnal Eel

A semi realistic eel pattern for night fishing. Perfect for salt water sea trout and stripped bass that are feeding on sand eels.

Damsel Stalking Bug

This extremly animated nymph is excellent when stalking larger trout or even used as an attractor or searching pattern when nothing is going on in the surface.

True North Vol. 2 - teaser

Teaser for our upcoming film "True North Vol. 2"

Swung Fuzz

I give a step by step instruction on tying my Swung Fuzz - wiggle tail swing streamer.

Bradshaw's Fancy

Another classic, this time a north country grayling fly that has produced for thousands of fly fishermen and will continue to do so for thousands more. If one red tag works, why not have two!

Frances Plug

Behind the somewhat strange name hides a somewhat strange fly originated by Danish salmon guide Marc Skovby. An good looking salmon tube fly that's both easy to tie and very efficient.

Alphlexo Crab

Step by step instructions for the famous Alphlexo Crab. Tie these in various sizes and colours to suit your target species, they work for permit, bones, trevally and others.

How to catch big searun trout on dryflies

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Superfloss Bloodworm

You can fish lakes, lochs, and ponds with the ultimate confidence with a weighted bloodworm.

Jerry French's Steelhead Sculpin

MATERIALS: Shank 25mm Med Dumbell Eyes Loop #50 Braid Micro Rabbit Polar Chenille Grizzly Flutter Legs

Conor McGregor

Conor McGregor Octopus. An Irish wet fly.

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