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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

Foam Mayfly Emerger

A simple emerger for those larger mayflies that will float all day long!

CDC Elk Hair

Don't let this quick and simple pattern deceive you, this is a great pattern that should have a place in every fly box. Hook: Mustad R30 # 8-16 Tying thread: Olive Body: Two CDC hackles Wing: Bleached or light coloured elk hair

CDC Comparadun

This is a simple mixed wing comparadun that has a really nice effect. With a turkey biot body and a little UV sparkle mixed with the CDC and lemon wood duck in the wing. Hook: Mustad R30 # 12 Thread: Yellow Wing: Lemon wood duck, CDC and UV enhancer Tail: Coq de Leon Body: Olive turkey biot Thorax: Olive CDC dubbing

Flying Mutant

This is a variant on one of my early melt glue patterns for a large flying Carpenter ant. A quick and very realistic pattern that is easy to master. Hook: Ahrex FW511 # 12 Thread: Black Body: Black hot glue Head: Black hot glue Wings: Two dun hackle tips Hackle: Brown

Prepping bucktail

A little tutorial for choosing and prepping buck tails for best results.

Wally Wing Quill Emerger

A nice looking quill bodied mayfly emerger that uses the Wally wings as the parachute post. Hook: Mustad C49S # 10 Thread: Black Body: Stripped peacock herl Wing: Mallard flank feather Thorax: Peacock herl Hackle: Coachman brown If you enjoy watching the videos please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated. Thanks…

Fan Wing March Brown

This is an interesting pattern only using the classic combination of partridge and hares ear for this dry fan wing March brown mayfly. Hook: Mustad R30 # 10 Thread: Brown Tail: Partridge tail feather fibres Body: Hares ear dubbing Rib: Fine silver tinsel Wing: Two mottled brown partridge feathers Thorax: Hares ear dubbing Hackle: Coachman Brown If you enjoy watching the videos please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated. Thanks…

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