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2021
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Crafty Baitfish

A small baitfish can be super effective in search of different species of predators in the water - even the most selective midge-eating trouts often can be fooled by a fast retrieved small baitfish

Orange Bodied Daddy Long Legs

Orange Bodied Daddy.

Top 3 Flies for Arctic Char

...trout LOVE them, too!

Öland Spey Shrimp Var.

Few flies are more popular at the scandinavian coast than shrimp-flies, and none more than the salmon-pink coloured Pattegris (the Pig) by danish sea-trout expert Claus Eriksen.

Jig Head Indicator Fly

Jig Head Indicator. Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Jig Force Size 16 Wing, Pink and White Poly Yarn or Anton Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Rib, Small Silver Tinsel

Rattle.Bum Popper

Dron Lee from Malaysia has created this excellent little popper using a combination of foam and braided tube - and a rattle for some extra noise

It's like a box of chocolates...

...you never know what you will catch.

Silver Clan Chief

Tying a Silver Bodied Clan Chief wet fly

Bucktail - turning to the dark side

Bucktail is a fabulous material for fly tying and jig tying. But most of us probably primarily use the long hairs on the backside of the bucktail.

Italian Style Caddis

Scraggly style deer hair caddis tied in the "Italian style" with a hair hackle made in a dubbing loop. Follow me on Instagram

Caddis Mosca in Pelo

Thank you Francesco Palú for inventing Italian style.

Wasp

A wasp is quite a big insect, but a type of fly that in the beginning of autumn can really get the attention from trout and grayling, get them to rise to the surface and inhale the fly.

Hard Going At The Big Loch

Scottish Highland Loch Fly Fishing. With the season end in sight it was time for what might be my final visit of 2021 to The Big Loch. Hard going, the fish were not giving up easily.

Amazing Sight Fishing for Big Trout!

After 2 Weeks of Lockdown with no Fishing, it was so good to be back on the river chasing some fresh run rainbow trout.

Franks Sawyers 5 Nymphs - up close and original

See the original nymphs tied by Frank Sawyer in close-up video footage and hear Sawyers own thoughts on each of the 5 individual nymphs: The Pheasant Tail Nymph, The Grey Goose Nymph, the S.S.

Triple F

Terrestial-patterns and big foam flies can be super-effective for chasing trouts at the coast-line around scandinavia here in the beginning of autumn.

Freshwater Clouser Minnow

Detailed instructions for tying a Freshwater Clouser Minnow.

Blue Elver

A classic seatrout (and salmon) streamer utilizing the beautiful vulturine feathers for wings. Materials Used; Hook, Size 4 Single Thread, Uni-8/0 Red

Crabby Patty San Flea

I created this fly a while back inspired by a few flies I saw on instagram.

Robbies Terror

Materials Used; Hook, Ahrex NS122 Light Stinger size 6 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail, Black and Grizzle Cock and Pearl Mirror Flash

Mixed Bodies International Dabbler

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 10 Thread, Uni-8/0 Fire Orange Tail. Bronze Mallard Fibres Rib, Small Oval Gold Tinsel

Soldier Palmer

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Red Tail, Red Wool Rib, Small Oval Gold Tinsel Body, Gold Tinsel and Red Wool

Barred Blue Zonker

Watch the underwater footage of this fly, and you know you are gonna need to tie it!

CDC Para-Weld Caddis

An extremely buoyant caddis pattern with a special CDC parachute hackle technique, that ticks all the boxes.

White Minkie

The minkie is a fantastic subsurface fry pattern and is ideal for the back end of the season.

Chartreuse Sand Eel

Sand Eels are a super-effective type of flies for the coastal fly-fishing. But when the sea run trouts are tricky and just bites the end of the tail - hooking the fish can be difficult.

Red Head Pheasant

Heavy nymphs is just plain effective - no doubt about that. But the traditional nymphs often get caught between snags and rocks in the river and streams.

LW Reel Review

I am someone who doesn't like to spend a ton of money on my fly fishing gear. However I still want a high quality reel or rod, that will perform for me when it needs to.

Tap's Bug

Detailed instructions for tying Tap's Bug, a simple and effective deer hair popper.

Fiery Brown Missing Link Caddis

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Olive Damsel Nymph

Damsels is a very impressing insect, especially the hatched adult winged insect really atracts attention from both humans as well as fish.

Black Foam Gurgler

Coastal flyfishing in the darkest hours of the day is an amazing experience. When the dark closes in and the sea trouts gets close to the shore, your senses changes and strengthens.

Line & Cord Bug

Tying and fishing a useful small bug using old fly line and elastic bead cord. If you've got some old used fly line here's a way to make it catch fish again.

Baby Blue Crab with Claws

This fly pattern is one a customer of mine asked me to tie for them. They sent a picture and I went from there.

Bigfoot Floating Snail

Peter Dobbs's floating snail pattern is a quick, easy tie that works wonders when fish are switched on to floating snails.

CDC Spent wing midge

Tying thread, 0ne CDC hackle and a pinch of dubbing, makes one of the most essential patterns in my fly box! A quick and easy CDC spent wing midge that can be fished just about all year round.

GoFi Sculpin

Baitfish like sculpins is the inspiration for this tying-video of the GoFi Sculpin - a small and lively baitfish-pattern that really can get the attention from predators in the water.

Italian Style Daddy Long Legs

Big bugs or terrestials is a food-source that really can get the fish to rise and inhale a fly on the surface.

North Country Spiders

Materials List: Partridge Partridge Trout Spider #14 https://bit.ly/PartridgeTroutSpiderWideGape

Foam Daddy Long Legs

This is a very popular fly all over and very successful for wild brown trout and the rainbow trout ..really a must have pattern for the flybox.

Kinky Peach

"K-I-S" or "Keep-It-Simple" is the theme of this flytying-video. Only a few materials and a minium of time is what this small nymph is all about.

Muddler Daddy

As we come into late summer the daddy longlegs moves to the top of the trout's menu.

Turbo Beetle

Detailed instructions for tying a Turbo Beetle.

Royal Coachman

One of the iconic American fancy wet flies. Tied on a # 10 Mustad R70 wet fly hook.

Two-Tone Intruder

Detailed instructions for tying a Two-Tone Intruder. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine.

You win some, you Loose some!

Not every day fishing is a spectacular day, however fishing is always fun! I don't always catch fish, and this was an example of a day that was less than productive.

Mayfly/Caddis Emerger

Materials List: Partridge Barbless Ideal Dry Size 14 https://bit.ly/PartridgeBarblessIdealDry

Peach Hedgehog

The Peach hedgehog is a very successful fly for fishing for wild brown trout but its true home is the Lochs of Orkney especially Lochs Harray and Hundland'

Rainbnow Pig - Regnbuesvinet

Talking about saltwater flyfishing, it is impossible not to put the focus on flies that imitates shrimps.

Water Walker Variation

Detailed instructions for tying a variation of Will Dornan's Water Walker.

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