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2017
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DIY material clips

I have used my fingers and metal bulldog clips plus varying degrees of dexterity for hair hackle loops. I decided to try to make my own material clips for the purpose.

Winter Fly Fishing The Animas River

One of the last free-flowing rivers in the state of Colorado, the Animas River is a unique and rare treasure.

Bass Zonker Rattle Streamer

Bass Zonker rattle bait

A more realistic egg

This is a slight variation from the more well known antron egg.

Common Craw

The Common Craw is one buggy little Carp Fly developed by James Spicer. The Common Craw was designed for picky carp on the South Platte River in Denver.

Baitfish Wiggle Tail

Paolo Pacchiarini ties a baitfish wiggle tail

Saltwater Baitfish

In this video Colby gets behind the vise and ties one of his favorite Saltwater Baitfish Patterns.

Gold Digger Stone

A fly designed to get down fast. Way down. Real fast. The legs add the perfect amount of movement underwater and the dubbing blend finds that balance between flash and buggy.

Fly Fish Utah

Four day trip to the mountains in Utah.

Archipelago

Fly fishing for sea run brown trout in the waters of southern Stockholm. Featuring Jimie Linder and Niklas Anslin, in association with Loop Tackle Design.

Navy Diver

Detailed instructions for tying a Navy Diver Euro-style Nymph.

Hawthorn Fly

A little more challenging Hawthorn pattern to tie but a rewarding one both at the vice and on the end of the leader.

Fuff Cat

How to tie a fluffcat fly pattern with Matthew Pate. This is a good all round lure for any type of stillwaters, and can be used all year round.

Squirrel Hair Tungsten Jig River Nymph

Great River Pattern

Dog Nobbler

I dont normally tie lures but this classic British lure from Sid Knight deserves a tutorial. Although tied for freshwater it has accounted for numerous sea trout in the salt for me.

Quill & Herl Emerger Midge

An easy midge emerger tied with stripped quill, peacock and ostrich herl and a little splash of CdC.

Search for Trophy Grayling in Slovakia

Searching and finding big grayling on hidden rivers of Slovakian back country. Clear, small mountain river produces huge grayling.

Spider Snipe & Purple

Tying a Classic North Country Spider Snipe & Purple. Another successful pattern for the river.

Burner

That's a super versatile baitfish streamer. You can use it for all kinds of predatory fish in fresh- and saltwater. Don't use too much Laser Dub to keep the shape of a real baithfish.

Sisu

Articulated trout streamer designed and tied by Swedish Andreas Andersson. Sisu will work for a wide variety of other predators - including pike, musky and bass.

Sid

Articulated trout streamer designed and tied by Swedish Andreas Andersson. Sid is named after the funny ground sloth from the movie Ice Age - due to the similarities in head shape.

Irish style mayfly

I just love tying these traditional Irish style mayfly patterns, three hackles in a lovely mix of golden olive and green.

Small Glass Minnow Transparent Baitfish Streamer

Glass minnows are small, see through fish that are a food source for many predatory fish.

Heggeli

Tying the Heggeli Spey Fly with Davie McPhail

Firefly

I give a step by step tutorial on a Micro Sized Flashabou Baitfish pattern perfect for warmwater, saltwater, and trout alike.

Claret Mayfly Bumble

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Red Tag, glo-Brite Floss No.5 Flu-Orange

Damsel nymph

An up-side down still water / lake damsel nymph with a weighted abdomen fishes really well with an irresistible swimming action, especially when things are slow.

Partridge & Orange

Traditional Yorkshire Dale Spider Pattern. North Country Spider Wet Fly.

Detatched Body Mayfly with Easy Tail

One of my all time favourite Patterns

Foam & Cone Caddis

A cracking little pattern that always has a place in my trout fly box. The flat deer hair wing and foam head make it fish very realistically even when fished static.

Ally Shrimp

Salmon-fishing legend Ally Gowans invented the Ally Shrimp in 1979. It has gone on to be one of the most popular salmon flies in the world, along with another of his creations, the Cascade.

Salt 365

Two lifelong surfers living in Orange County California, and from opposites ends of the earth, forge a strong, late in life friendship through their shared passion for the obscure sport of saltwate

Koga's Bonefish Shrimp

Detailed instructions for tying Koga''s Bonefish Shrimp.

Moose May Fly

Dry Fly HOOK: Mustad 9671 #12 TAIL: Peccary BODY: Two White and One Black Moose Mane Fibers WING: Calf Tail HACKLE: Brown and Grizzly mixed

Ginger Quill Nymph

Ginger Quill Nymph - Don Martinez

Streamer Chronicles: Erik Griffen

A little backstory...... Every good experiment (like Streamer Chronicles) has to have a control. Erik Griffen is the control of Streamer Chronicles.

Kelly Galloup: Zoo Cougar

Kelly Galloup https://www.slideinn.com/ and +TheSlideinn ) ties his infamous Zoo Cougar fly pattern for us this week.

Swimming Caddis

A great small Caddis nymph. fairly easy to tie, but still a good looking pattern for trout and grayling.

Masked Avenger 2.0

The updated recipe that I currently use for the Masked Avenger. Many of you have inquired for it, so here she is.

Choosing The Right Fly Tying Vise Part II

This is the follow up video to our first piece " Choosing The Right Fly Tying Vise," which describes the differences and advantages to a rotary vs. a fixed head vise.

Mil-Spec Mayfly Nymph

The Mil-Spec mayfly nymph is an easy but realistic mayfly (blue-winged olive, PMD, etc) pattern. * DO NOT USE A CHARTPAK MARKER! It bleeds. Just use a brown Sharpie.

What is a Waddington Shank?

Fly Tying Tip for Tying Intruder Flies and Big Streamers

Grey & Black Mayfly

Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Red Tag, Red Holographic Tinsel Tail, Dyed Black Pheasant Tail Rib, Silver Tinsel

Euro Nymphing vs Indicator Nymphing

Devin Olsen: "I was once a dyed in the wool suspension/strike indicator nymph fisherman. You couldn’t convince me there was a better way of catching numbers of fish on most trout rivers.

CP's Body Quill Baetis Nymph

Black and Yellow Tube Fly

Black and Yellow tube fly tied onto the Eumer's 22m teardrop brass tube with nutria and Arctic fox wing.

Hatching Mayfly Nymph

A pattern to represent the larger burrowing mayfly nymphs when hatching.

2016 Fish Reel

Over the course of a year, you learn a lot. You gather knowledge through your experiences and the people you meet.

CdC Wasp

A little black and yellow CdC wasp made with nothing but Cdc and some floss. Semi realistic and floats all day, when the wasps die in late summer early autumn this pattern is a must.

Bunny Bugger

A super simple bugger technique using zonker or cross cut strips that only takes a few minutes to tie.

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