A nice technique for making a CDC body, without coming in conflict with the under body of the fly. This makes the body fish deep under the surface but keep the wing high and dry.
Hares ear, partridge, tinsel and a bead head. A great combination of fish catching materials all wrapped up in one easy nymph pattern.
This is a good looking but really simple pattern to tie. All you need to do is change the hook size and the colour of hackle and you have a nice and easy technique to imitate many mayfly's.
A nice little diving caddis that has has a somewhat different detached body technique.
An unusual peacock and deer hair pattern with a double wing.
An excellent loch style pattern that is a real attractor when pulled in or just under the surface.
This is a semi realistic pattern with all the features of the real stone fly nymph but easy to tie and a good pattern to get started with if you haven't tied semi realistc pattens before.
A quick and easy tie for an unusual but effective spider pattern for small stream fishing and river fishing.
A semi realistic caddis pupa thats a real easy tie. Just learn the technique and change the colour of Antron to match your hatch.
This is a simple stone fly nymph that plays on the basic features of the nymph to give a realistic profile.
A quick and simple adult CDC caddis with a sparkle thorax and wing.
Another pattern from John Goddard that was an instant success on still waters in the UK.
A little technique I have been experimenting with for tying hollow flies with compressed air. The technique can be adapted for spey and larger pike and salt water patterns.
This pattern imitates the larval stage of the house building caddis fly, and is one of the most important foods for trout and grayling, especially during the late autumn and winter.
An quick and effective hatching midge pattern that has saved the day many a time for me, just change the colour and size to match the hatch.
The fur equivalent of CdC. A real simple pattern all tied with only one 5 cm strip of beaver fur spun in a dubbing loop!
The sculpin or bullhead as they are also known have a large flat head, big fins and a tapering body and are a favourite food of big trout.
A semi realistic eel pattern for night fishing. Perfect for salt water sea trout and stripped bass that are feeding on sand eels.
This extremly animated nymph is excellent when stalking larger trout or even used as an attractor or searching pattern when nothing is going on in the surface.
Another classic, this time a north country grayling fly that has produced for thousands of fly fishermen and will continue to do so for thousands more. If one red tag works, why not have two!
A little Griffith's variant that uses snow shoe rabbit instead of the traditional grizzle hackle. A tad more robust that the original but fishes just as well.
A simple tie for a very buggy large October caddis that floats like a cork with a wonderful wing.
This yellow mayfly dun tutorial has a simple technique I developed for making the wally wings process quick and simple!
Another dry fly hackle tutorial this time the paraloop technique. Although I don't use this hackle much its a great choice for emerger patterns.
