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2017
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Beach Fly Fishing The Puget Sound w/ Commando Heads

Commando Heads have distinct advantages for beach fishers: they allow for easy distance with minimal false casting, they can be cast in multiple different ways, they allow for fishing up against tr

Material Clips are your friend!

Many people don't have or never use their material clips. That's a shame because a material clip can provide that often needed "Third Hand" we lack.

CDC Bubble Daddy Long Legs

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Grab Gape size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Tan Body, Tan Closed Cell Foam Legs, Veniards Pre-Knotted Pheasant Tail Fibres

Polly's Pride

Ernest Herbert Rosborough or better known as Polly is best known for his series of Fuzzy Nymph fly patterns and his self published book "Tying and Fishing the Fuzzy Nymphs".

Motor Oil

Back with another fly tying tutorial! This time it is the most successful patter of 2016 season, the Motor Oil wiggle tail Gandalf Variant!

Zulu Blue

Another classic wet fly that has for the most been forgotten but its well worth blowing the dust off this one especially if you are fishing sea run browns in fresh water.

Dan Pierce, Tenkara Instructor

Watch Dan Pierce explain the traditional Japanese form of fly fishing: Tenkara.

Denny Rickard's Callibaetis Nymph

Rickard's Callibeatis Nymph is an attractor nymph that is tied in a number of colors including black, olive, tan, rusty orange and this peacock version.

Squishy Fish (variant)

Instructions for tying a variation on Peter Hylander's excellent Squishy Fish.

Hilo

Click the link below here you will find the full materiallist:

Making Better Flies

This book is mainly on saltwater flies in spite of the title, and it doesn’t impress - or tell you how to design, develop or improve.

Martin's Minnow

In this episode of Tie TV Daniel Bergman will tie a Martin's Minnow - "red ghost style" - a superb pattern for perch fly fishing.

Flyfishing in Sweden

Alaska Mary Ann

The Alaska Mary Ann is a bucktail (or polar bear) fly that has a storied past and multiple origin stories.

Grunter (Variant)

This fly was originally tied by Grant Luke from Scotland, the fly was tied back to front so the partridge hackle was tied first behind the eye followed by two ginger cock hackles, four cdc plumes p

Casual Dress

Detailed instructions for tying Polly Rosborough’s Casual Dress Nymph.

Pristine mountain lake!

Haviland Lake is a beautiful small lake up north of Durango Colorado. You can kayak, swim, and camp at the lake.

Easy Sculpin

Sculpin streamers are some of the more common and effective streamer patterns for trout. This one utilizes the fish skull heads to make a simple and yet effective streamer pattern for trout.

Alaska Mary Ann Bucktail

It is the official fly of the Alaska Flyfishers and has a storied past. I used a few hooks from my Mustad 9575 collection for this video. The hook is...

The Banjo Valley

Sunsets & Cocktails Episode 1A brand new web series. Enjoy! Music by Jazz & Fly Fishing

Jack Gartside's Soft Hackle Streamer

The late Jack Gartside created quite a number of fly patterns during his long fishing career.

Sunburst Sonic Muddler

Tied by Morten Valeur. This version is one of Morten’s favourite flies for fall fishing for searun brown in the Scandinavian streams. It is tied on an Ahrex NS110 which is a relatively heavy hook.

Chernobyl Ant

Chernobyl ant with rubber legs and a new and easy parachute techniques for foam flies.

Thin Mint Streamer

How to tie the Thin Mint Streamer. The Thin Mint is a wooly bugger variation that is very effective on lakes and rivers. Lake fish will take this as a leech, dragon fly, or damsel fly nymph.

Pliva Perdigon

Originating in France and popularized in Spain, Perdigon nymphs are a must for anyone who drifts nymphs in rivers and streams. This version of the Pliva Perdigon utilizes Buzzer Wrap for the body.

Dick Winter's Black Drake Soft Hackle

Dick Winter's Black Drake Soft Hackle is tied using a maroon or brown body ribbed with contrasting gray mono-cord ribbing.

Cream Variant

Detailed instructions for tying a Cream Variant.

Cinnamon & Olive CDC/Elk Hair Caddis

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Ultimate Dry Fly size 16 Thread, Uni-8/0 Tan Body, Olive CDC Feather or Dubbing Wing, Light and Dark Cinnamon CDC and Elk Hair

Bead Head BH Lightning Bug

The Lightning Bug is a simple nymph pattern that I've had quite a bit of success using.

Black and Peacock Spider

Once the spring ice starts to retreat, and the shallow start to repopulate with life, I like to throw little black flies along the shoreline.

Crayfish Bunny Bugger

Crayfish are a very important food source for many freshwater species. And this fly is made to imitate them.

DDH Leech Variant

The DDh Leech was developed by Manitoba fly angler Stu Thompson. Stu used a mix of rabbit dubbing enhanced with Diamond Dubbing Holographic dub.

Fly Fishing Smallmouth

Bass are one of the most popular game fish in the world, and its no wonder why. They are aggressive eaters willing to take a variety of baits, and wonderful fighters.

Great beginner's books

This article covers a handful of books that I would recommend to the new fly-angler and fly-tyer - the angler who is dipping his or her toes in the fly-fishing pond for the first time

Copper Bunny

This video is a quick demo on how to tie this copper bunny streamer fly. It will ride hook point up and will slam hungry trout. Copper Bunny Materials List

Brown Trouts on Dry Fly!

Brown trout on Dry Fly Fishermen: Umberto Oreglini & Marco Rapino

Fran Betters' The Usual

The late Fran Betters has created some of the most notable trout flies in the fly tyers arsenal. The Ausable Wulff, Haystack and The Usual are among the famous flies.

Hairy Drake

The Hairy Drake is another old Earl Madsen fly pattern. Especially useful for daytime fishing during Brown Drake and Hex season.

Chum Slumber

I designed the Chum Slumber for the chum salmon on the west coast and for the pink salmon that are found in the Great Lakes. In particular, the humpies that swim through the St.

Red Butt Chironomid

The Red Butt Chironomid is a great choice for fishing stocked trout ponds, lakes and even deep pockets of rivers where trout hang out.

Rich Strolis's Shimmer Stone Nymph

The first video in the Rich Strolis Nymph Tying Series.....the Shimmer Stone.

Fly Fishing the Smoky Mountains

My first guided trip I ever went on was with Jon Oody from Tennessee Valley Anglers. Jon ignited a passion in me for fly fishing and I looked up to him after that.

French Partridge

Click the link below here you will find the full materiallist: http://www.flytying.eu/product/french-partridge-2696/

Articulated Flesh Fly

The Articulated Flesh fly is simple to fly to tie, but the combination of beads and rabbit make it highly dynamic and great for fishing the west coast and great lakes fall runs.

Ginger Bunny

The Ginger Bunny fly is, in essence, a Flesh Fly. I use a natural ginger rabbit zonker on the fly because of the natural variance of color.

Composite Baitfish

Learn how to tie a simple and effective baitfish pattern that incorporates a single composite loop and a simple ostrich tail.

El Retorno del Rey

King Salmon fishing in the rivers of Coyhaique, Patagonia Chile.

Cotton Candy

The Cotton Candy Tube is one of our favorite winter Steelhead patterns. This is an easy quick must have pattern.

CDC "F" Red Tag

Materials Used: Hook: Tiemco, 103 BL {#15} http://amzn.to/2sxIZ3m Thread: UNI-Thread 8/0 {Black} Tag: UNI-Floss or Silk Floss {Red}

Egan's Tungsten Surveyor

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