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Chuck Caddis

This adult caddis pattern with a wood chuck wing and mixed hackle gives a perfect foot print when fished dead drift or stripped across the surface.

Black Ghost

The full tutorial for one of the great long flies that is still catching fish on both sides of the pond.

March Brown Wet

The full tutorial for one of the true classic wet flies that works just about anywhere its fished. The famous Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjoft Nansen said " Give me two March brown's and a box of matches and i'll survive the whole summer in Norway".

Long legged Midge

This is a relatively easy semi realistic adult midge with a couple of nifty techniques.

Zulu Blue

Another classic wet fly that has for the most been forgotten but its well worth blowing the dust off this one especially if you are fishing sea run browns in fresh water.

CdC Loopwing Emerger

This is a simple little CdC loop wing emerger that can be adapted to imitate not only midges but also smaller mayflies.

Quick Sight Midge

This extremely easy but very effective quick sight midge is especially for those of us who have some problems seeing small flies at a distance and at night. This pattern has never failed me, especially with big fish that are feeding on midges. It will float all day long and beyond...

Nalle Puh

Widely regarded as the national fly of Finland, Simo Lumme's Nalle Puh or also known as Winnie the Pooh is a wonderful egg laying caddis pattern with a rather unusual but effective winging technique.

Prince Nymph Variant

The nymph previously known as Prince. A great little nymph that every fly fishermen should have in their box, but this time tide with a partridge throat hackle instead of the traditional brown.

Golden Olive Bumble Muddler

A variant of the Kingsmill Moore pattern, the golden Olive bumble that was popularised in his great book 'A man may fish' A cracking dry fly attractor that hardly ever fails as a top dropper. Pulled through the surface as a wake fly it will attract even deep lying fish up to inspect it.

A little tour of my tying room

This ia a short tour of my tying room and photo studio here at home. Not the best filming but you'll get a good idea of how its layed out and works.

Adult blue damsel

One of my most simple patterns. A semi realistic but quick tie for a perfect adult blue damsel that works extremely well when they are on the water.

Brassie and partridge spider

A neat little spider pattern that has worked wonders for me when fishing a traditional across and down stream wet fly method.

Great Grey Sedge

An unusual but good looking pattern. This large caddis fly ticks all the boxes when it comes to a large adult skating caddis imitation.

Ammonite Nymph

An excellent looking nymph for those deep water grayling and trout.

Peacock Caddis

This is an old but reliable pattern used especially in fast riffles and for searching pocket water.

Renegade

This old but still effective, for and aft pattern, was one of Ernest Hemingway's top trout flies.

Quill Wing Blue Dun

A classic quill wing style dun. A traditional pattern and technique that gives one of the best footprints and silhouettes of an adult mayfly.

Beetle Bug

A real simple beetle/bug that has never failed me even under super selective feeding.

Dunkeld

This is the trout version of the river Tay salmon fly. Also better known for being a killer sea trout pattern for peaty coloured rivers and lochs.

John Storey dry fly

A rather unusual pattern from North Yorkshire that has gained a super reputation as a real trout and grayling treat.

Coch-y-Bonddu

This well known Welsh pattern represents a small beetle of the same name (red & black) that is found along the river and lake banks of the Welsh countryside. One of the classic peacock herl patterns that trout just love. Here’s the correct way of tying it.

Mosquito Midge

A simple but effective pattern for mosquito and midge fishing with a couple of nifty techniques and only using Grizzle hackle and moose mane hair.

CdC Para Weld Midge

This little midge has proven a great asset early on in the season under difficult midge hatching conditions and later also as a mosquito. The original had a traditional parachute hackle but I changed this recently to my CdC para weld hackle that floats all day and beyond.

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