Videos by Fly Anorak

This is pattern number 12. Red cow, Light blue hackle, Woodcock Wing

Thread: primrose silk
Body: Red cow hair - dyed for me
Hackle: light blue
Wing: Woodcock

We are on to pattern number 11. Light Smoky Blue, Yellow Mohair & Hare Roots dyed with Turmeric.

B: mix of yellow mohair and the roots of hare dyed turmeric
H: light smoky blue

This is kind of the part two to Roger Woolley's "Compara Hackle" and also part two to Marinaro's Thorax Dun.

This is a combo video of Cutcliffe's patterns 8 & 9. Straw Silk rib; Cow hair; Hare flax/water rat; rusty blues.

This pattern is really about a method or concept in a fly, and hence why it is a "series".

Wing of Pheasant or Blue red Hackle - Cow and Squirrel Tips.

Number 3a in the pattern list. Dark Peacock and Black Red Hackle.

Body: dark peacock herl
Rib: Gold twist
Hackle: Black Red. I interpret this as "furnace".

Number 2! Sable and Water rat - Silvery Speckled Brown

Here we go!
Fox and Squirrel with Rusty Brown Blue.

I have resisted tying all the patterns listed 38 plus the extras within the book's text but let's begin

These are two patterns Cutcliffe discusses within the text of the book and mentions how he uses these as his stretcher fly on a multiple fly rig.

Following up on my prior video on the Smoky Mountain Forktail from the blog Small Stream Reflections, I was reminded that another blog I loved by Neil Norman called An Online Soft Hackle Pattern Bo

I was remembering some great fishing blogs I used to love reading. One was called Small Stream Reflections.

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

Catskill Dry Fly Tied Dette Method. I joined the Catskill Fly Tyers Guild this past year and at one of their Zoom tying sessions, they went over this fly pattern.

This is GEM Skues' Orange Quill. Skues used this pattern for the BWO on the Itchen and other chalk streams. He confesses he has no idea why it works.

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

Hare flax or Hare fur dubbing from the back of a wild hare. Not the mask.

This is an extremely useful fur and lot’s of parts to be harvested to create different shades.

After resisting a video on Clyde style flies for a while I decided to give it a go. The main reason for resistance is that I have no practical experience with these flies.

This is Gerard de Chamberet’s La Loue or what was first called Le Rose. It was in a series of grayling flies called La Loue which later just became the name of this pattern.

Poil de Lièvre (Hare’s Hair)
Eugene Ragot around 1910 wet fly pattern