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Flying Ant

A new series of patterns for those that are new to fly tying. Here I am showing techniques that may look challenging, but are totally achievable with a little patience and practice.

Frenchie Fly

Currently one of the most used tied and nymphs, especially in competition circles. An extremely easy tie for an extremely effective pattern for Euro nymphing.

Zebra Midge

Although an extremely simple tie, the Zebra midge is an essential pattern to have in your box all year round.

Mysis Shrimp

A quick and simple, semi realistic pattern to imitate the Mysis shrimp. Ranging from 0.5 to 25 mm long with a slender transparent body.

Walt's Worm

Walt Young's hares ear pattern, that is one of the simplest but most popular competition jigs. Although an easy tie, there are a few nice techniques in this pattern that are worth learning.

WD-40

One of the simplest but most effective mayfly midge larva that you can have in your box. An absolute must for early season fishing!

Midge emerger

A functional emerger midge pattern with a few nice techniques. Tie it in any size from large buzzers to the smallest hatching or cripple midges in any colour you like. A must have pattern.

CDC Ant

A lovely little pattern, that is tied with only one CDC puff and a few turns of hackle. A quick and easy pattern for the most important terrestrial, no matter where you live, that will float all day ...

Detached Bodied Daddy Long Legs

A very simple detached body technique for a good daddy long legs that will float all day long. It can also be applied to all manner of extended bodies.

Bristow's Bug

One of the lesser known but still effective old grayling and trout patterns, with couple of nice body techniques with peacock herl.

Solomon Caddis Pupa Variant

This variant of the semi realistic Solomon caddis pupa is a relative easy tie and has a few nice techniques to take further on other patterns.

Three Dollar Dip

For me this is one of the very best emerger patterns that can be used for both midges and mayflies. Named after the famous 3 dollar bridge on the Maddison river this little pattern is quick to tie and...

Heinz 57

A wonderful little pattern that, as the name suggests, is a composition of several better known patterns. This is a simple tie that will cover most dry fly situations when grayling fishing.

Hare's Ear Muddler

One of my favourite patterns for when the fish won't have anything bright and prefer something more buggy and natural looking.

Pheasant Tail Black

A little effective variant of the classic that you can fish in both still and running water all year round. A couple of nice techniques here to take further on other patterns.

Gartside Sparrow

Probably Jack Gartside's best known pattern from the early seventies. Originally designed by Jack as a soft hackle muddler minnow but over the years has proved to be an excellent all round sub surface...

Black Marabou Muddler

Black deer hair flies have been used for decades here in Scandinavia for night fishing in salt water for sea run browns, here's one of my favorites, the Marabou Muddler.

October Caddis

A quick but effective pattern for one of the last large bugs of the year. An easy tie with a couple of good techniques that can be used in other patterns.

Governor Aiken

One of the beautiful bucktail's. On May 5th 2014 Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law bill that designated Governor Aiken bucktail streamer as the official fishing fly of the state of Vermon...

Strawman

A very beautiful little pattern that is my take on the strawman cased caddis larva pattern. All you need is natural deer hair, a single grey partridge hackle and a little patience, to create this spun...

Parachute Ant

Being the most prolific terrestrial on just about every river and still water, this extremely simple but effective parachute ant will not only float high and dry, but tick all the boxes for ant fee

Red Hot Chilli Pupa

An extremely quick and effective winter pattern for searching pocket water. Try it in smaller sizes with a green or yellow body.

Bottom Crawler Jig

A little jig with a couple of nice techniques for breathing gills and a shell back. Visit my site https://thefeatherbender.com

JG Emerger Variant

One of John Goddard's lesser known but extremely effective patterns. The original JG emerger used a brown and grizzle hackle mixed for the parachute here I use only a brown dyed grizzle along with a s...

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