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Humpy

A pattern that many like to fish, but few like to tie! Heres my less complicated method of tying the Humpy but still produces that fat boy fly we all love to fish.

Klinkhammer

A modern classic, the Klinkhammer a pattern that works all over the world. There are many ways to tie it, here's mine that uses a not so well known parachute hackling technique.

Suckling Pig

Pattegrisen or the suckling pig or pink pig as its also known is one of the most popular salt water shrimp patterns in Europe, a real fish catcher!

Montana Nymph

One of the most effective but simple patterns, a fabulous technique, that surprisingly few know how to tie!

House Building Caddis

A very quick and simple cased caddis pattern with a cool technique that can be made to match most house building caddis larva just by choosing different hackles.

Tying the Europea 12

A relatively unknown pattern but still a great little caddis fly with a nice winging technique.

Elk Hair Caddis

Tying the Elk Hair Caddis with Barry Ord Clarke

Madam X

If you are not familier with Madam X it's about time you got to know her ! A top attractor and searching pattern for both rivers and still waters.

Tom Thumb

This magical little deer hair pattern seems for the most to have been forgotten! I have looked through a whole range of my 'go to' pattern books and have found reference to it only in name, no images and no step by step. Although I have located some info regarding the pattern on the net I felt that it deserved a proper step by step tutorial. As far as I understand the Tom Thumb is said to have originated from England in the 1940s, but I find this a little misleading as deer hair at this time, was little, if not used at all in England! But Canada where the pattern was popularised is another matter all together, being the birthplace of many deer hair patterns and pioneer of tying with deer hair. Although you can tie the TT with a wide range of deer hair in smaller sizes the optimal sizes 8-12 need a hair of a certain length. So if you are new to the game and intend buying deer hair specifically for this pattern I can recommend Natures Spirit Humpy deer hair. The TT primarily being a Humpy without a hackle! Its also difficult to find two materials, deer hair and peacock herl, that trout and grayling are more attracted to!

PTN

The classic Pheasant Tail Nymph, the foundation for just about all other nymph patterns.

Brahma Matuka

Maybe one of the most underestimated streamer styles, the Matuka. Just by changing the hackle type for the wing you can imitate just about any bait fish.

Gartside Gurgler

One of the great striper patterns the Gartside Gurgler. This is a cracking pattern when other surface patterns just won't work. This is the original tying method as taught to me by the man himself Jack Gartside.

Opossum Worm

The Opossum worm. One of the most popular patterns that I am asked to tie at demos and shows. Although it takes a little time to learn this is a great pattern for most species of fish in both salt and fresh water, you just gotta give this one a go!

Ribbon Shrimp

An quick and easy, yet realistic salt water shrimp pattern for all seasons tied just with one material, Organdie. If you enjoyed this video and wish to support this channel please visit; https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3355572&alert=1&ty=h Contact me at facebook;https://www.facebook.com/thefeatherbender/

E-Z Sand Eel

The E-Z Sand Eel. This is an excellent pattern not only for sea bass and sea trout but most salt water species. The E-Z body tube makes it both aero and aqua dynamic makiing it easy to cast and giving it a realistic swimming action.

Red Tag

One of the Grayling classics. If you enjoyed this video and wish to support this channel please visit; https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3355572&alert=1&ty=h Contact me at facebook;https://www.facebook.com/thefeatherbender/

UV Caddis Pupa

A very quick and easy semi realistic caddis pupa tied with UV materials.

Scruffy Brassie

The Brassie. Copper wire in different colours can give extremely natural looking abdomen on pupa and larva patterns. It gives the impression of gas bubbles that hatching pupa use to split their shuck and carry them to the surface. If you enjoyed this video and wish to support this channel please visit; https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3355572&alert=1&ty=h Contact me at facebook;https://www.facebook.com/thefeatherbender/

Thunder Creek

Here's the Thunder Creek buck tail streamer tutorial, another simple but very effective pattern that takes 'know how' to tie correctly and them looking slim and slender.

Melt Glue Zonker

This is an excellent pattern for both salt and fresh water. The melt glue technique makes it much easier to obtain a uniform transparent body on every fly. If you enjoyed this video and wish to support this channel please visit; https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3355572&alert=1&ty=h Contact me at facebook;https://www.facebook.com/thefeatherbender/

Proppen

This quick and easy pattern is without doubt my most productive sea trout fly for salt water. If you enjoyed this video and wish to support this channel please visit; https://www.patreon.com/user?u=3355572&alert=1&ty=h Contact me at facebook;https://www.facebook.com/thefeatherbender/

Chernobyl ant

This is not at all a complicated pattern to tie, but it must be tied in the correct order and manner.

UV Zonker

Another tutorial for a zonker, this time tied with UV resin. This is a very quick and robust method of making these effective bait fish imitations.

Wooly Bugger

Tutorial for probably one of the most popular patterns on the planet, showing you the correct way to tie this modern classic.

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