Hair wings

Mostly salmon and sea trout flies with hair tied in in bunches for the wing.

Hair wings - all content

| All Hair wings content | Articles only | Blog entries only | Videos only | Reviews only |
Article

The Dirty White

Nov 2. 2008
More tubes We continue our series of tube flies tied in the Scandinavian style. This fly is another subdued yellow, white and gray fly, well suited for bright light and clear water. It uses a mallard hackle to create a nice, closed shape.
See a detailed pattern description here
Article

Chinese White

Oct 25. 2008
Tubed A bright tube fly for salmon in clear water created by Danish Ken Bonde Larsen. Tied in the Scandinavian style with a large and soft hair wing made of several layers. Easy to tie and impressive both in and out of the water.
See pattern and pictures here.
Article

Staring Sunray Shadow

Oct 25. 2008
Here's looking at you kid Ray Brook's classic the Sunray Shadow can hardly be outdone by any variation of this simple yet very efficient fly. But some people still like to add little details to killer patterns. This version of the Sunray has a body and eyes.
It can see where the fish are.
Article

Bloody Butcher

May 14. 2007
Wet fly Originally this was a classic style wet fly with a feather wing, but it's easily transformed into an excellent sea trout fly. Black, red and silver are perfect together and makes the fly very visible. See tying steps and lots of pictures and 
tie along here.
Article

Speyshal

Jan 16. 2006
Skunked Like most ideas... they mature slowly. It was not until late March that, during a private flytying tuition session to a talented, young colleague, I saw clearly in my mind what my Skunks would look like.
Read more about the Dutch master and his fly series.
Article

New Streamers

Apr 22. 2005
Streamers Converting a classic salmon fly to hairwing form has been done for many years among salmon anglers. Recently, the gang on the streamers@ mailing list tried their hand at converting classic salmon patterns to trout flies.
Click here to see the results
Article

Loch Dhu Salmon

Jan 1. 2002
A pattern for salmon in the summer dusk. A salmon fly inspired by the Scottish pattern named after the lake Loch Dhu
Article

Sawada tubes

Feb 10. 2001
Inspired Niels Have's take on some Ken Sawada patterns - tied on tubes.
See the flies here
Article

IQ Dawn series

Feb 17. 1998
Salmon flies: The purpose of the IQ Dawn Series is to cover most variations you can encounter at a salmon river. And hopefully catch a Salmon Salar, king of fish! All flies can easily be made to spey flies - just change the hackle to heron feather instead, in the same color.
See the patterns here

Pages

.

 

Since you got this far …


The GFF money box

… I have a small favor to ask.

Long story short

Support the Global FlyFisher through several different channels, including PayPal.

Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
It costs money to drive a large site like this.

See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.