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CDC Ant

A lovely little pattern, that is tied with only one CDC puff and a few turns of hackle. A quick and easy pattern for the most important terrestrial, no matter where you live, that will float all day ...

Detached Bodied Daddy Long Legs

A very simple detached body technique for a good daddy long legs that will float all day long. It can also be applied to all manner of extended bodies.

Bristow's Bug

One of the lesser known but still effective old grayling and trout patterns, with couple of nice body techniques with peacock herl.

Solomon Caddis Pupa Variant

This variant of the semi realistic Solomon caddis pupa is a relative easy tie and has a few nice techniques to take further on other patterns.

Three Dollar Dip

For me this is one of the very best emerger patterns that can be used for both midges and mayflies. Named after the famous 3 dollar bridge on the Maddison river this little pattern is quick to tie and...

Heinz 57

A wonderful little pattern that, as the name suggests, is a composition of several better known patterns. This is a simple tie that will cover most dry fly situations when grayling fishing.

Hare's Ear Muddler

One of my favourite patterns for when the fish won't have anything bright and prefer something more buggy and natural looking.

Pheasant Tail Black

A little effective variant of the classic that you can fish in both still and running water all year round. A couple of nice techniques here to take further on other patterns.

Gartside Sparrow

Probably Jack Gartside's best known pattern from the early seventies. Originally designed by Jack as a soft hackle muddler minnow but over the years has proved to be an excellent all round sub surface...

Black Marabou Muddler

Black deer hair flies have been used for decades here in Scandinavia for night fishing in salt water for sea run browns, here's one of my favorites, the Marabou Muddler.

October Caddis

A quick but effective pattern for one of the last large bugs of the year. An easy tie with a couple of good techniques that can be used in other patterns.

Governor Aiken

One of the beautiful bucktail's. On May 5th 2014 Vermont's Governor Peter Shumlin signed a law bill that designated Governor Aiken bucktail streamer as the official fishing fly of the state of Vermon...

Strawman

A very beautiful little pattern that is my take on the strawman cased caddis larva pattern. All you need is natural deer hair, a single grey partridge hackle and a little patience, to create this spun...

Parachute Ant

Being the most prolific terrestrial on just about every river and still water, this extremely simple but effective parachute ant will not only float high and dry, but tick all the boxes for ant fee

Red Hot Chilli Pupa

An extremely quick and effective winter pattern for searching pocket water. Try it in smaller sizes with a green or yellow body.

Bottom Crawler Jig

A little jig with a couple of nice techniques for breathing gills and a shell back. Visit my site https://thefeatherbender.com

JG Emerger Variant

One of John Goddard's lesser known but extremely effective patterns. The original JG emerger used a brown and grizzle hackle mixed for the parachute here I use only a brown dyed grizzle along with a s...

Water Bug Corixa

A little pheasant tail water boatman/Corixa that is super quick to tie and can be fished effectively both wet or dry. Tied only with pheasant tail and moose mane hair.

Hare's Ear Soft Hackle

A quick and easy Hares ear soft hackle / wet fly that will work just about anywhere. Fish it up-stream as an emerger / semi dry, let it drift down stream and as it passes you give it a pull and swing ...

Ceanis/Trico Spinner

The smallest of the up-winged may flies. Although ideally matched on a # 20-26 hook it is possible to get away with a # 18. A couple of interesting techniques here for the tails and wing.

Green Machine

One of the great Canadian surface flies for salmon and steelhead. As you are probably aware I'm a sucker for deer hair patterns and this is one of my favorites for salmon and sea run browns.

Large Mayfly Nymph

A nice pattern for most of the larger mayfly nymphs. Not only an easy but semi realistic tie but an extremely effective pattern with some good techniques that can be used for other nymphs.

Mayfly Wet

Heres an older pattern for a wet mayfly that can still hold its own today. Although not fished so much any longer this elegant style of mayfly is a pure pleasure to tie with its simple materials on a ...

CDC Emerger Mayfly

A superb little CDC generic mayfly emerger that ticks all the boxes when the hatch is on. Tied in most sizes and colour combinations this is one of my top trout flies.

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