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2021
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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.

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.

Frozen Fox

Detailed instructions for tying a Frozen Fox streamer.

Red Cheeked Buzzer

Red Cheeked Buzzer for the Irish Loughs

Duo Style Klinkhamer

Whether you call it the duo, New Zealand style, hedged bet or klink & dink, hanging a nymph of of a dry fly is an absolutely deadly method at times.

Duck Fly Cruncher

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Competition Heavyweight size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Black Tail, Light Speckled Coq de Leon or Grizzle Fibres Rib, Fine Silver Wire

Glentana

From a beautiful book, Norwegian Erling Olsen's “Mine beste fluer” (My Best Flies). A lot of different materials and beautiful to tie!

Holographic Buzzer

Happy New Year Friends. Great Pattern for all Year Round, also works well in Winter. Hook size 10 Thread Black Body & Cheeks Red Holo Tinsel

Swimbait BULKhead

This video breaks down the Swimbait Rigging for the 6/0 PR378 GB Predator Swimbait Hook and shows a detailed Step by Step tying instruction for dressing a Bob Popovics' BULKhead Fleye.

A successful and simple dry fly ant

Irish Lough Style Stimulator

Materials Used; Hook, Size 8 Stimulator or Dry Fly Thread, Uni-8/0 Fire Orange Rib, Oval Gold Tinsel or Wire Body, Olive Seals Fur or Sub

Joseph Ludkin Reel Wing Spinner

Our old friend John Petermann who is a very skilled flyfisher, certified flycaster and finally but not at least he is a very creative flytyer tying some excellent flies for all kind of fish he is t

Gartside Sparrow

Probably Jack Gartside's best known pattern from the early seventies.

Dark Needle

The dark needle is a great pattern from Edmonds & Lee's "Brook and River Trouting". It's ideal toward the end of the season and is very effective when there are small stoneflies on the water.

Cdc Deer Hair Spinner

Deer hair and CDC are favorites for my own dry flies. The peacock quills and tinsel make the body and some foam for visibility and floating.

Skykomish Sunrise

Love this classic beauty that was created as kind of a family team effort, by father and son Ken and George McLeod back in the late 1930's.

Sometimes even slow days end great!

Bass fishing at its best for a small South Texas fly fishing stream. This was a great day. However it started kinda slow. Lots of walking, searching for fish with no success.

Braid Body Emerger

Fly tying a simple extended body emerger using hollow braid fly line backing, A very simple to tie emerger.

Margaree Bug

Detailed instructions for tying a Margaree Bug.

G Dragon

Tying Materials Hook: DAIICHI 1530 # 6. Thread: Gel Spun, black, 150 denier. Body: blue foam, 2mm thick. Wings: transparent silicon rubber, with gloss.

Blue Charm

My favorite salmon fly to ty! This one here is for fishing and not for a collection. The Patriot single hook size 6 or 8...

Dark Montreal

hook mustad 3399 sizes 10 to 14, thread denville 6/0 black, tail claret color hackle fibers, rib small flat gold tinsel, body claret color floss or yarn,

Lime Trude

The Lime Trude is an effective attractor dry. Representing nothing specific, it's an ideal choice for prospecting, especially with a nymph dropper.

Dry fly, hackle work and peacock quills

Hackle and peacock are to beautiful materials to work with . To have an compact and tidy hackle you need to clean the one side of the feather before tying.

Mole Fly

Join Signature Tyer Charlie Craven as he ties and talks about the Mole Fly

Hatching Midge

"Big flies big fish" is not always correct, sometimes even the largest trout can be selective on micro-flies such as mosquitoes and caenis.

CDC Spring Dun

Materials Used, Hook, Fulling Mill Ultimate Dry Fly size 14 Thread, Uni-8/0 Yellow Tail, Whiting Coq de Leon Fibres Body, Brown Olive CDC Dubbing

Tying the complete salmon fly Rat series

Since a long time I wanted to ty all the 15 flies of the salmon flies Rat series.

The Feather Mechanic

This is a book I have been looking forward to for a while. And it doesn’t disappoint.

Crain Fly Larva

I bought this Wool from Charity Shop for 20p, It looks very close to Chadwick IMPO, also it works really well,

Deer Hair Run Caddis

Deer hair for the the body and wings and some dubbing. Very few materials but effective fishing flies. I saw this fly for the very first time in a book from W. Reisinger, E.

The story of Woolly Sparkle Dub

Today we are doing a bit of shameless self-promotion. In short we tell you the full story about our development and in-house production of Woolly Sparkle Dub and Natural Sculpin Wool.

Medina in the Winter

Bass, Sunfish, Carp, Catfish all are mainly warm water fish. The Medina is a warm water fishery but a cold front moved in. This dropped the temps and definitely slowed down the fishing.

Being on Instagram

Social media can be a strange experience. It's really a mixed bag. And on Instagram 40% of all anglers seem to be women!

Partridge & Orange

How to use up your large hackles/feathers on small flies.. Partridge & Orange Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 14

March Brown Spey Salmon Fly

Small spey flies are just a pleasure to tie. This one is inspired by the book “Mine beste fluer” (My Best Flies) written by the Norwegian author Erling Olsen.

Fly Fishing For the Biggest Trout in The World!

Fly Fishing for the big trout in a system that contains the biggest average size trout probably in the world, amazing day and probably 200lb of trout caught.

Blind Fishing Flooded Creek For Big Trout!

Bad weather has meant i haven't fished much. forced a trip here with Dustin. We eneded up blind fishing this flooded creek and managed to catch a few good trout.

Best Trout Fishing River In the World? Probably!

Fly Fishing deep back country and exploring new water on probably one of the best trout fishing rivers in the world, Epic day with good buddy Dustin.

Exploring New Backcountry Water

Dustin and i Head in to the backcountry to explore new water, we found some epic fishing and opened up a new section of the river.

Raft Fly Fishing World Famous Ultra Clear water River!

Jumped on board the raft with Jesse from rafting New Zealand http://bit.ly/2Q1ONyO to Float fish the amazing tongariro river.

Myssefar

We do a lot of coastal flyfishing for sea run browns here in Scandinavia during the winter. It can be challenging and very cold but the reward is worth it all!

Gray Wulff

Detailed instructions for tying Lee Wulff's Gray Wulff.

The Fly that killed Fly Fishing?

In this video, I discuss flies that have killed fly fishing for me...or have they?!?

Cripple Peccary

All materials are natural and beautiful to tie with. Brown hackle for the tail, grizzly hackle, elk hair and peccary for the body.

Irish General

My own pattern of two famous styles of salmon fly, combined into one effort on a size 6 Veniard Osprey Scandinavian double hook.

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