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Pheasant tail stone fly nymph

This is a simple stone fly nymph that plays on the basic features of the nymph to give a realistic profile.

CDC sparkle wing caddis

A quick and simple adult CDC caddis with a sparkle thorax and wing.

Goddard's suspender hatching midge

Another pattern from John Goddard that was an instant success on still waters in the UK. The poysterene ball tied just above the hook eye makes the suspender midge float all day and beyondwhile presen...

Blow Dry Baitfish

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.

House builder caddis larva

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.

Poly wing midge

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.

Beaver Caddis

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!

Cottus Gobi Sculpin

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.

Nocturnal Eel

A semi realistic eel pattern for night fishing. Perfect for salt water sea trout and stripped bass that are feeding on sand eels.

Damsel Stalking Bug

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.

Bradshaw's Fancy

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!

Matt's Gnat

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.

Wonder Wing Caddis

A simple tie for a very buggy large October caddis that floats like a cork with a wonderful wing.

Yellow Mayfly Dun

This yellow mayfly dun tutorial has a simple technique I developed for making the wally wings process quick and simple!

Tying a Paraloop hackle

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.

Tying the perfect parachute hackle

Dry fly hackle tutorial # 2 parachute perfect. Not the traditional technique for tying a parachute hackle but a very presise one I have used with great success and avoids having to whip-finish at the ...

Traditional dry fly hackle

Dry fly hackle technique #1. After having many questions regarding my hackling techniques here is my way of tying a perfect 90 degree traditional style dry fly hackle that will produce a perfect hackl...

IOBO Emerger

Extremely quick and easy to tie with only one CdC hackle, the IOBO (It Ought to Be Outlawed) emerger is a must have pattern and should be found in every trout and grayling fisherman's fly box.

PMD nymph

This is a little Pale Morning Dun Nymph that ticks all the boxes under difficult conditions.

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 ma...

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.

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