Moose mane cripple dun
An extremely simple but yet good looking pattern, that works well when large hatches are happening. Continue reading Moose mane cripple dun
Barry Ord Clarke’s guide to tying dry flies includes step-by-step instructions for crafting a variety of designs such as Caddis flies, Midge flies, Grayling flies, Ant fly, Daddy long legs flies and Mayfly dry flies. Whether you’re an experienced angler or a beginner, mastering the art of tying your own flies can significantly enhance your fly-fishing experience. With Clarke’s expert guidance, you’ll be able to create dry flies that mimic the natural insects found in rivers and streams, effectively attracting fish and increasing your chances of a successful catch.
By using high-quality materials and following Clarke’s detailed instructions, you can craft intricate and durable flies that will hold up against the rigors of fishing. Clarke’s patterns have been honed over years of experience, and are designed to catch a variety of fish species in different water conditions.
In addition to providing instructions for each pattern, Clarke also includes helpful tips and techniques to ensure that your dry flies look and perform their best. From selecting the right materials to finishing your flies with precision, Clarke’s expertise is sure to improve your fly-tying skills.
So why settle for store-bought flies when you can create your own custom designs that will attract more fish and enhance your overall fly-fishing experience? With Barry Ord Clarke’s dry fly patterns and tying instructions, you can take your skills to the next level and enjoy even greater success on the water.
An extremely simple but yet good looking pattern, that works well when large hatches are happening. Continue reading Moose mane cripple dun
A nice technique for making a CDC body, without coming in conflict with the under body of the fly. This makes the body fish deep under the surface but keep the wing high and dry. Continue reading Double D caddis/sedge
This is a good looking but really simple pattern to tie. All you need to do is change the hook size and the colour of hackle and you have a nice and easy technique to imitate many mayfly’s. Continue reading How to tie Detached body para loop mayfly
A nice little diving caddis that has has a somewhat different detached body technique. Hook: Mustad C49S # 16 Thread: Dyneema 55 Abdomen: Cream Para post Wing: Natural deer hair Thorax: Light & dark olive dubbing Continue reading How to tie Para post diving caddis
An unusual peacock and deer hair pattern with a double wing. Originaly made to imitate a caddis fly the super bug is also a great searcher pattern, that will raise fish from their holding spots just about anywhere. Hook: Mustad … Continue reading Double super bug pattern
A quick and simple adult CDC caddis/sedge with a sparkle thorax and wing. Continue reading CDC Sparkle wing caddis/sedge dry fly
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. How to tie Poly wing midge Poly wing midge recipe Hook: Mustad C49S … Continue reading How to tie Poly wing midge
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! Hook: Mustad R30 # 10 Tying thread: Dyneema 55 Body & Wing Natural beaver Continue reading How to tie Beaver Caddis
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! Bradshaw’s Fancy pattern recipe Hook: … Continue reading Bradshaw’s Fancy grayling fly
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. Have a great weekend fellow feather benders! Matt’s Gnat a Griffith’s pattern recipe … Continue reading Matt’s Gnat a Griffith’s pattern
A simple tie for a very buggy large October caddis that floats like a cork with a wonderful wing. Wonder wing caddis pattern Hook: Mustad R43 # 10 Tying thread: Dyneema 55 Body: Natural deer hair Underwing: 2 Natural CDC … Continue reading Wonder wing 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. Mustad R50 # 10 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 Black Body: Fly Rite dubbing No … Continue reading How to tie Chuck Caddis dry fly
This is a relatively easy semi realistic adult midge with a few nifty techniques for body, wing and legs. Long legged adult midge recipe Hook: Mustad R50 # 12 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 Black Body: Large black cock hackle Legs: … Continue reading Long legged adult midge
Widely regarded as the national fly of Finland, Simo Lumme’s Nalle Puh or also know as Winnie the Pooh is a wonderful egg laying caddis pattern with a rather unusual but effective winging technique. Buy MUSTAD signature hooks Buy VENIARD … Continue reading How to tie the Nalle Puh
A variant of the Kingsmill Moore pattern, the golden Olive bumble that was popularised in his great book ‘A man may fish‘ A cracking dry fly attractor that hardly ever fails as a top dropper. Pulled through the surface as … Continue reading Golden olive bumble muddler
One of my most simple patterns. A semi realistic but quick tie for a perfect adult blue damsel that works extremely well when they are on the water. Adult Blue Damsel pattern recipe Hook: Mustad R30 # 12 Tying thread: … Continue reading Adult Blue Damsel dry
An unusual but good looking pattern. This large caddis fly ticks all the boxes when it comes to a large adult skating caddis imitation. Grey sedge pattern recipe How to tie Grey sedge pattern Continue reading Grey sedge dry fly
This is an old but reliable pattern used especially in fast riffles and for searching pocket water. Peacock elk hair Caddis pattern recipe Hook: Mustad R30 # 14 Tying thread: Black 6/0 Body: Peacock herl Wing: Elk hair Hackle: 1 … Continue reading Peacock elk hair caddis
This old but still effective, for and aft pattern, was one of Ernest Hemingway’s top trout flies. Renegade fly pattern recipe Hook: Mustad R 30 # 14 Tying thread: Black 6/0 Butt: Flat gold tinsel Rear hackle: Brown cock Body: … Continue reading Renegade fly pattern
A classic quill wing style dun. A traditional pattern and technique that gives one of the best footprints and silhouettes of an adult mayfly. Quill wing blue dun pattern recipe Hook: Mustad R30 # 12 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 grey … Continue reading Quill wing blue dun pattern
A real simple beetle/ bug that has never failed me even under super selective feeding. Your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated. If you enjoy the videos please subscribe to my YouTube channel. Thanks… Continue reading The Beetle Bug
A rather unusual pattern from North Yorkshire that has gained a super reputation as a real trout and grayling treat. John Storey fly pattern recipe Hook: Mustad R30 # 12 Tying thread: Black 6/0 Wing: Mallard flank Body: Peacock herl … Continue reading John Storey fly
Not the original tying but the results are more or less the same. This easy tied, world renound caddis pattern was designed by my old friend, fly tyer and master rod builder Kenneth Bostrom. The name Rackelhanen, dirctly translated means ”Bastard Rooster” and refers to a strange natural cross breeding of Black grouse and the Capercaillie, of which the un-natural offspring is called a Rackelhanen. The Rackelhanen is fished as a normal adult caddis pattern but can also be pulled hard under the surface of the water so that it pops up agian rather like a hatching caddis breaking the surface. Thank … Continue reading Rackelhanen caddis a Swedish classic
A little twisted polypropylene yarn extended body technique for a very effective adult midge pattern. Thank you for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going … Continue reading Extended body midge pattern
This is a CdC sparkle Dun mayfly with a Coq de Leon tail and a ice dubbing, CdC mix wing. This style of Dungives perfect presentation every time. Thank you for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading How to tie CdC sparkle dun mayfly
An elementary cripple/stillborn mayfly pattern for super selective trout. Although you can use regular deer hair for the wing in this pattern I use klipspringer hair. How to tie Klipspringer Cripple mayfly Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe … Continue reading Klipspringer Cripple mayfly pattern
A very different type of caddis with a couple of interesting techniques. This pattern lies very low in the surface giving it an extremely attractive foot print. How to tie Para weld caddis pattern Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading Para weld caddis pattern
One of my little more challenging fishing patterns to tie but a rewarding one both at the vice and on the end of the leader. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading Tying a Hawthorn Fly pattern
A we one from the green isle for friday. I just love tying these traditional Irish style mayfly patterns, three hackles in a lovley mix of golden olive and green. Have a great weekend my feathery friends! How to tie … Continue reading Irish style mayfly pattern
A cracking little pattern that always has a place in my trout fly box. The flat deer hair wing and foam head make it fish very realistically evan when fished static. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to … Continue reading Tying foam and cone caddis dry fly
A little black and yellow CdC wasp made with nothing but Cdc and some floss. Semi realistic and floats all day, when the wasps die in late summer early autumn this pattern is a must. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading How to tie Tying a CdC wasp.
A midge with a twist. This little dry midge is equiped with a buggy partridge parachute hackle that gives it a spider quality. A great little river pattern. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading How to tie Palomino partridge parachute midge
This deer hair technique shows you how to make easy elongated bodies with deer hair perfect for crane flies, hoppers and stone flies. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel, your help and support in keeping the channel going is greatly appreciated: Continue reading How to tie deer hair daddy
Another deer hair tutorial this time for a detached body. This body technique can be used for all types of detached bodies, daddy’s, midges, caddis flies etc. So give it a go and put it to good use. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Buy MUSTAD signature hooks on AMAZON:Buy VENIARD product on AMAZON:Fly tying tools and materials shop TRIDENT:Buy SIMMS fishing products:EPIC water filters Very useful thing when fishing:Trouts fly fishing Premier Fly Shop & Outfitter:Polarized fishing sunglasses RHEOS 55$:TheRiversEdge flyfishing shop – Bozeman Montana:Buy STANLEY products. Free Shipping … Continue reading How to tie detached deer hair body mayfly.
Another different deer hair technique, this time showing you how to tie a parachute hackle made of deer hair. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading Tying a deer hair parachute hackle
A real simple pattern today before I leave for the last two days of the hunting season to harvest some winter roe deer hair. Have a great day my friends… Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading Tying the cone caddis dry fly
When large wood ants swarm on the warmest summer days the trout go on a feeding frenzy. This is one of those patterns that you just can’t do without. Simple but realistic and quick to tie. Flying wood ant fly … Continue reading Flying wood ant fly
This is a pattern designed to show the pure versatility of deer hair! Tail, spun body and hackle all made from deer hair and nothing more. Three deer hair techniques that will for sure be helpful to you when tying … Continue reading Deer hair irresistible fly
A very simple pattern with a not so well know hackling technique, try this pattern and I am sure you won’t be disappointed. Hatching midge fly pattern recipe How to tie Hatching midge fly Continue reading Hatching midge fly
This is yet another parachute technique with a twist! A very satisfying method of finishing a traditional parachute hackle that also equips the pattern with a quick sight indicator. Hook: Mustad R30 # 12 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 black Tail: … Continue reading How to tie Poly weld para dry fly