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Blue-Wing Midge

The Blue Wing Midge (BWM) is an adult midge pattern designed to be fished wet. The BWM is a fly design that exploits two recent scientific discoveries: The first is that midge wings commonly show colo...

Gilly Caddis

A Fly Imitating Free-Roaming Larva--Tied "In The Round" Style for a Halo of Gills Look.

Free-roaming larva from the Net-spinners (Hydropsychidae) and Rock worm (Rhyacophilidae) caddis families vary...

Bobber Stop Worm

Wriggling is a coiling and uncoiling behavior of a larva or worms body. It is a characteristic movement of Chironomids as shown at the start of this video clip and also often seen in the annelids--t...

Flyfishing With a Detachable Strike Indicator (DSI)

In an earlier YouTube video (https://youtu.be/aLpU149v6Pg), I showed how to tie a Detachable Strike Indicator (a DSI) using Spinners snap (also called a c

The DSI: Yarn-based Detachable Strike Indicator

When contact nymphing it is useful to be able to convert to a suspension nymphing system to widen the area where a drag-free drift is possible.

White-Belly Matuka

Why tie a White Belly Matuka? A Parr-Marked Baby Brown-Trout Fly With a Reverse-Tied Mini-Marabou Wing & Belly.

The Day Drifter Caddis

A more lifelike peeking caddis fly featuring a caddis worm that's got legs.

Most rivers in the West have a Brachycentrus (occidentalis) hatch starting in later April that peaks in May called the Mo...

Stacking Bucktail, modifying a hair stacker

Modifying a Large-size Loon-Brand Zippy Hair-Stacker for Use with Bucktail

0:00 Features of the Zippy Stacker
0:30 Selecting Bucktail
1:40 Make a Stack Tube Accessory
2:10 Using the Modified Zip...