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Trico Spent Spinner

A small Trico spent spinner with a neat mayfly tailing technique and a segmented moose mane hair body for a semi realistic effect.

Baetis sparkle wing

A little comparadun Baetis, that not only works very well early, but just about the whole season. With a mixed wing and a quill body. Perfect in sizes 16-18.

Skating caddis

A quick medium sized adult caddis fly that skates high, creating a nice wake, making it a great little attractor, with an interesting segmented dubbing body technique,

Paraloop Griffiths

A little different play on a Griffiths gnat. A reverse paraloop hackle that gives a deeper presentation and doubles as a quick sight indicator.

Parachute Adams

One of the true classics that works just about everywhere. This one tied with a calf body hair post, two hackles, one brown and one grizzle along with an unusual dubbing technique for a fine segmented body.

Floating Mayfly Nymph

A floating CDC mayfly nymph that will fish as an emerger with the tail and abdomen under the surface, the thorax being held high with the CDC bubble wing case. Change the colour and hook size to match your hatch.

Egg Laying Caddis

One of my little deer hair patterns that is super easy to tie. All you need is a hot spot tag and a deer hair dubbing loop, for an effective pattern that floats high and dry all day long.

3M Minnow

A great little minnow pattern made from Marabou, Mylar & Mallard flank. It has worked well for sea run browns but should also be just as effective for browns and bows.

Mixed Wing Shuttlecock

A quick and easy mixed wing shuttlecock style midge emerger that is a good early season pattern and works great on still waters.

Generic mayfly nymph

A quick and easy mayfly nymph that with a little change of hook size and colour can represent many of the small mayflies in the nymphal stage.

Diawl Bach Hot Head

This little devil is probably the most popular nymph in the UK. Easy to tie, and found in many variants, this is one of my favorites, with a hot head. The jungle cock can be dropped or substituted with biots.

CDC Bubble Caddis

An easy but effective little CDC bubble caddis pattern that can be quickly tied in various colours and sizes.

Parachute Blue Winged Olive

One of the earliest and most important mayflies for the trout fishermen. This easy tie gives a great foot print and is the perfect pattern for calmer flowing stretches of water.

Burnt Wing Sedge

A quick little semi realistic caddis pattern with burnt feather wings, for those of you that like that little extra.

Mayfly Spinner

This Wally wing mayfly is a semi-realistic spinner, that is fun to tie for those of you that enjoy this type of pattern. Not only a good looking fly but also a great fishing fly! Don't be fooled by the delicate looking wings, they are surprisingly robust.

Madam XXL

A simple tutorial for tying perfect bullet heads. This XXL variant of one of the great attractor flies, has accounted for at least 3 of my top 10 largest trout on dry fly.

Hot Spot Pheasant Tail

A quick and easy pheasant tail nymph with a UV hot spot attractor wing case. For those cold days grayling fishing.

Flashy Bugger

A real big fish fly. As the name suggests, a woolly bugger with that little extra flash to increase the attractor value.

Crazy Charlie

Without doubt the most famous bonefish fly. This simple pattern with a crazy name is well worth tying if you are fishing the salt.

Sunrise Flatwing

A great pattern that creates the illusion of volume while still remaining light and easy to cast.

Quill Body Buzzer

A quick early season midge larvae, that with a little change in colour and size, is a good generic pattern for most buzzers.

Extended mayfly body tutorial

A simple but realistic extended body technique, that will give any mayfly dun or spinner pattern that little extra.

Parachute Zebra Midge

A Zebra midge variant that is an unusual parachute pattern, as it has a plastic glass bubble bead head. If you have fished with the zebra midge you'll know just how effective it is, so give this a go , you'll be surprised.

Jelly Bean Scud

The Willy Wonker of Gammarus patterns. A great looking scud pattern that is not only extremely easy to tie, but also a deadly pattern for both fresh and salt water. Hook: Mustad C49S # 6-14 Tying thread: Dyneema Rib: Fluorescent orange tying thread Legs: Vanilla ostrich herl Shell back: UV resin

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