Wet flies

Flies fished subsurface, often tied with wings

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Buying Soft Hackle

May 7. 2013
Shopping The soft hackle is supposed to be - as the name implies - soft. Soft hackle can come from many birds. Chickens, gamebirds like partridge, grouse and quail, pheasant and even crows and jackdaws.
Learn how to select the right here
Video

Wet Fly Wings

Mar 9. 2013
Fly Tying for Beginners Wet Fly Wings with Jim Misiura. A demonstration of tying wet fly wings.
Article

Discovering the Marbury Lake Flies

Nov 25. 2012
Marbury If today's tyer wants to tie the Mary Orvis Marbury Lake flies, they would be wise to think 'old school', and transport themselves back to a time when the hooks had blind eyes, the materials were natural, and the flies were colorful and uniquely adapted to the American fly fishing experience by Mary Orvis Marbury and her crew of women tyers.
Click here to learn how to tie them
Video

Admiral

Nov 1. 2012
Here is another classic wet fly pattern.
Video

Black Pennell

Apr 25. 2012
Hook: Mustad 94845 #12, Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black, Hackle: Hen, natural black, Tail: Lady Amherst tippet barbs, dyed hot orange, Rib: Wire, silver, Body: Tying thread
Video

Flies into action

Dec 5. 2011
In the film using a new method of presentation of artificial flies.Method Buldo is floating wire and 4 artificial flies.I hope it develops in AMERICA.For more video with instructions enter the site
Video

The March Brown (WetFly)

Nov 4. 2011
March Brown (WetFly) Materials used; Hook, Kamazan B170 size 12 Thread, Uni 8/0 Orange Rib, Flat Gold Tinsel Body, Hare's Ear or Fox Squirrel Dubbing
Video

The Melvin Zulu

Aug 22. 2011
Tying the Melvin Zulu (WetFly) by Davie McPhail
Review

Plu Stiniog

Jul 1. 2011
The story of this books is a fascinating one. The author Emrys Evans passed away in 2008 at the age of 91. In his life he had collected Welsh fly patterns.
Review

Modern fly fishing

Jun 25. 2011
The Swedish video producer Mountain Media has been doing fishing videos for (almost) as long as I can remember... for a long time at least.
Video

Wet Fly trailer

Mar 4. 2011
Join Johan Klingberg in his interesting meetings with professional fly fishermen.
Review

Tying and Fishing Soft-Hackled Nymphs

Jun 30. 2007
To borrow a phrase from the great G.E.M. Skues, wet fly fishing continues to be a minor tactic among fly anglers.
Article

Hen Hackle

Oct 13. 2006
Fly Tying Awhile back, I received a shipment of hen necks and saddles from Whiting Farms. The saddles struck me with their intense colors and solid web, then necks with their stem length and shortish barbs. These feathers were perfect for the wet flies I was working on.
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Article

Wingless Wets

Apr 13. 2006
Flymphs On a shelf in the shop was a little book that was propped open. It was Leisenring and Hidy's The Art of Tying The Wet-Fly and Fishing The Flymph. Inside, I found a treasure of patterns and some fishing instructions and I suddenly switched gears and began fishing these great little flies.
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Article

Classic Wet Flies

Apr 13. 2006
Classics Wet flies have been around as long as fly fishing itself. Are they starting to see a renaissance? In fly tying circles at least, that may be the case, as tyers look for new challenges and new sources of inspiritaion.
Click here to see some classic wet flies

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