Hackle

Omø børsten - an old danish classic pattern for sea trout. Invented by Ken Bolde Larsen in the early 90s. I made a light version, inspired by my good friend Jonas Nilsson, who uses this fly a lot.

Shaped and Stacked; Using Rooster Hackle to Form Dry Fly Wings.
Dry fly wings...Typical materials are...
1.) Quill Slips

We all know the original Dyret pattern from Gunnar Bingen, but heres a pattern that I have been playing with the past two seasons that has been a killer for wild brown trout.

Heres a quick and useful hackle technique that can be used for all types of hackle.

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A look at rooster hackle and the names for various colors.

First tutorial of the fly tying season 2024. Sorry for the bad sound… It has been a while since I’ve had the urge and creativity to make tutorials.

Superpuppan is originally one of Swedish Lennart Bergqvist's classics, tied to imitate caddisflies that have risen to the surface and are on their way to land to hatch.

The famous spider patterns tied in stiff hackle versions.

Mouches Exquises are double hackled flies that were first mentioned in a book by Doctor Juge named "Pecheur de Truites" from 1959. Doctor Juge was from Chamberet in the Corrèze.

This is my tying of Guy Plas’ Incomparable pattern. I learned about this fly from Jean-Paul Pequegnot’s book “French Fishing Flies”.

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GREAT PATTERN FOR AUTUMN FISHING. Just love these type of colors for fishing in the autumn. Had fun with some pheasant rump feathers and that ended up in this little one.

Unconventional, easier way of dealing with hackle.

The Galactic Ant is a pattern that Lance and I kind of dreamed up one day at the front desk.

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A small sparse-tied neutral-colored baitfish imitation can be super effective when the hunt takes place with streamers for predator fish especially the ones hunting small baitfish.

Here we will be tying the dry fly Griffith's Gnat. The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing and works just as good here in Iceland as it does in other fly fishing countries.

Whiting Farms Episode 1. In this video, Kelly walks us through the different varieties and grades of Whiting dry fly hackle.

This is my attempt at Cutcliffe's #26. Like #14 in the video before this is one of the few flies where the body is not fur.

Rooster hackle wet flies? From England? From the mid-1800s? You bet!

Griffiths Gnats are a classic pattern that is very simple to tie and also very effective. These only require two materials besides the thread and hooks.