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Scruffy Squirrel

The scruffy squirrel nymph is a great all rounder and a good alternative to a hares ear. The combination of squirrel dubbing and a rib of Ultra lace tubing makes a very buggy morsel that ticks all the...

Midsummer Caddis

A great little caddis pattern that has a few nice techniques. The super buoyant combination of CDC and deer hair make this pattern almost un-sinkable.

Ugly May

An extremely quick and easy, yet effective pattern that can be mastered by tyers of all levels. This Ugly or scruffy mayfly dun includes a few interesting techniques for making dubbing and applying it...

Brown & Peacock Beetle

Yet another quick and simple, but effective pattern, that requires only basic skills and materials. Fish it not only as a generic Coleoptera but also as something thats just buggy!

Montana Damsel

A damsel nymph tied in the Montana nymph style. A great pattern, especially for still waters and as a stalking bug.

X-Factor Caddis

A truly effective pattern for when those hatches of small caddis are underway, or even just fished as a all round attractor. Simple and quick pattern that pushes all the buttons!

Ultra Lace Nymph

Another easy nymph technique for a long slender nymph body style that with a little adjusting will work for most larger mayfly nymphs.

Wonder Wing Stonefly

Another winging technique that gives a realistic flat lying wing, ideal for midges and stoneflies. With this technique all you have to do is change the hook size and colour and you can cover most smal...

Welshman's Button

The lovely little Welshman's button or chocolate drop, as it's also known, is a simple but rewarding patter to tie. With three nice techniques to learn for the body, wings and antennae.

Deer Hair Midge

A quick little deer hair midge that pushes all the buttons. Not only a great fishing pattern but also a couple of nice techniques with deer hair and a very simple CDC parachute hackle wing.

Yellow Quill Buzzer

A robust yellow quill buzzer for those hatches of midges. Fished alone or as a dropper with a team. A seriously effective pattern on still waters.

Bead Head Diving Caddis

An nice little wet pattern that imitates a diving egg laying caddis fly. The small Tungsten bead head will put this caddis where it needs to be.

Braided Blue Damsel

It's soon that time of year again! This adult blue damsel is a semi realistic but easy pattern to tie.

All Purpose Emerger

Without doubt one of my absolute most productive trout & grayling patterns. Tied on a # 12,14 or 16 hook, as here, it makes a fantastic caddis pupa but on smaller sizes, even down to a # 22, it's my f...

Hot Butt Caddis

Another easy tie with basic materials that is guaranteed to catch. An elk hair caddis variant that has a little extra attractor factor.

Pay Day Midge

A real quick and easy basic material hatching midge pattern, that can be fished static or twitched to give a little movement. One of my go-to flies for hatches of midge on still water.

MP 33 Mayfly Nymph

A Marc Petitjean pattern, with many different CDC techniques. Its the proportions that you have to balance with this pattern, tail length, short abdomen, long thorax & long slender head.

RS 2

The RS 2 or Ray's Semblance 2 is, in my humble opinion, one of the best fishing flies ever designed. If you haven't fished with the RS 2, you don't know what you have been missing.

Emergent Sparkle Pupa

Gary LaFontaine's little emerger that has become a modern classic. This simple technique shows you how to create the gas filled shuck case of an emerging caddis fly to great effect.

Sepia Para Dun

A semi realistic parachute with a couple of nice tying techniques that are useful to use on other patterns.

Shuttlecock Emerger

A little shuttlecock emerger with a couple of different body & wing techniques. Hook: Ahrex FW511 #10 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 Olive Trailing shuck: Parapost fibres

Hair Wing Adams

This is a very interesting variant of one of the most popular dry flies in the world. Surprisingly this great pattern, that doubles just as well for a caddis fly as it does a mayfly is very little use...

Foam Post March Brown

A simple but extremely effective March Brown emerger that can be tied in sizes 10-16. The foam post and parachute hackle give perfect presentation and will float all day long.

Three simple dubbing techniques

This is another very important tutorial, illustrating how the same dubbing can be used in three different techniques for three very different results.

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