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.
The deer and duck caddis is a fusion of two of the most buoyant materials around, deer hair and CdC. Please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading How to tie double D Caddis dry fly
This easy but extremely effective caddis pattern is a must for every fly box! Please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading How to tie a CdC caddis dry fly
This is a technique that I have been working on some time now, trying to develope the perfect CdC parachute hackle that doesn’t interfear with the underside of the thorax in anyway and I beleive that this is pretty close. Please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading Tying a CdC parachute hackle
Friday’s fly is one of the classic Catskill mayfly patterns with all the componets of the classic dry fly. Please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading How to tie Beaverkill – American classic
This is another intresting pattern that uses an unusual material, but shows that every day items can sometimes be put to good use in fly tying. Continue reading How to tie shoe shine caddis
This is one of the best searcher patterns that will bring even sluggish fish up from the bottom. Easy to tie and even easier to fish. Tied with only one material, good old deer hair. Sedgehog fly pattern recipe How … Continue reading Sedgehog fly pattern
This is a semi-realistic super hi floating CdC mayfly spinner. Here I show you several special techniques with CdC all you need to do is change the hook size and colour to imitate most mayfly spinners. Buy MUSTAD signature hooks … Continue reading How to tie CdC mayfly spinner
A relatively unknown pattern but still a great little caddis fly with a nice winging technique. Continue reading Tying the Europea 12
If you are not familier with Madam X it’s about time you got to know her ! A top attractor and searching pattern for both rivers and still waters. Please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: … Continue reading Introducing the boys to Madam X
One of the great striper patterns the Gartside Gurgler. This is a cracking pattern when other surface patterns just won’t work. This is the original tying method as taught to me by the man himself Jack Gartside. Please remember to … Continue reading How to tie Gartside Gurgler fly
A cracking little pattern that works every time. Hook: Mustad R30 # 10-22 Tying thread: Tan Body: Fly Rite dubbing Trailing shuck: Z-Lon Wing: Deer hair Buy MUSTAD signature hooks on AMAZON:Buy VENIARD product on AMAZON:Fly tying tools and materials … Continue reading X-Caddis dry fly video tutorial
One of my favourite flies to tie, the rat faced Mc dougal. This is a Harry and Elise Darby pattern. Although it was originally tied with grizzle hackle tip wings, Harry Darby said he preferred fishing it with calf tail wings as it was more visible at a distance. The original body was also just natural spun deer hair but here I have given it a natural white underside. The tail is also deer hair, but from the summer coat of the European roe deer. Although it requires a little skill to tie correctly it’s well worth doing, a very … Continue reading How to tie Rat Faced Mc dougal
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As the name says, the man behind the famous series of patterns was Lee Wulff and the most famous of all is the Wulff that is Royal! The fattest pattern of the Wulff family is just as good fished as … Continue reading Royal wulff fly
Keeping on a grayling theme heres one of my absolute favourites, Not only to fish with but also to tie. All these patterns from bygone days are remarkably simple, but still require a degree of technique to master them precisely. One of the peculiar characteristics of the grayling is that they have a preference for flies dressed with a hot spot of red in their make-up, probably the most famous is the red tag, but here are a few more, older patterns that still get the job done. How to tie Bradshaw’s Fancy Bradshaw’s Fancy pattern recipe Hook: MustadThread: Veevus … Continue reading Grayling patterns my absolute favourites
This magical little deer hair pattern seems for the most to have been forgotten! I have looked through a whole range of my ‘go to’ pattern books and have found reference to it only in name, no images and … Continue reading Tom Thumb fly
One of the late autumns highlights is great hatches of needle flies Leuctridae, especially here on the big grayling rivers of mid Norway. Although the hatches begin as early as June and run until November the climax is in august- … Continue reading Willow fly pattern
Large dark olive nymph The large dark olive (Baetis rhodani) are probably the most widespread of all the European may flies, being Multivoltine, where water temperature allows, having two or more generation cycles per year, makes it even more important … Continue reading Large dark olive trio Baetis rhodani – LDO
This popular western pattern comes in many variants of colour, wing and tail materials, hackle and single and double hump. The Humpy fly pattern is also tied in two styles, short and fat and the long and slim version I … Continue reading Humpy fly pattern
Fishing, or even identifying a mayfly spinner fall can be one of the most challenging situations a fly fisherman can experience! Its all about breaking codes and learning to read the signs. With the larger mayflies its somewhat easier to … Continue reading Pseudo Mayfly Spinner
The G & H sedge, as it was originally named was created by John Goddard and Cliff Henry. John Goddard who died last December was one of the great innovators of fly tying. This is a small tribute to one … Continue reading Goddard Caddis – G & H Sedge
After much response regarding my Mutantz pattern I published last year, here is the new and improved Flying Mutant that has fished extremely well for me this year, with a few new techniques that can be applied to other patterns. … Continue reading Flying Mutantz ants
This pattern was the product of Rainey Riding’s imagination after the Chernobyl atomic plant accident. Resembling an ant, only in the weirdest imagination, this is a great stimulator pattern. The CCFS (closed cell foam sheet) used in this ant … Continue reading Chernobyl Ant fly
Many daddy long legs patterns are somewhat delicate and easily damaged, be it by fish, or even prolonged casting, and general ware and tare. Here are a couple of patterns that show you how to make your daddy’s not only … Continue reading The mother of all daddy’s long legs dry fly
The original pattern is from the American fly tyer Randall Kaufmann and is probably one of the most popular flies in North America. Originally tied to imitates the adult giant stonefly, but will fish just as well as a hopper … Continue reading Stimulator Dry Fly pattern
Heres an American Classic to tie and try over the holidays. The H & L or House and Lot as it is also known was said to be President Dwight Eisenhower’s favorite trout pattern, especially for fishing Eastern streams. Like … Continue reading H&L Variant fly
Heres the second part of the MP CdC tutorial. Where Marc Petitjean is tying one of his great CdC may flies. This is not only an extremely quick and easy pattern to tie but also a very effective fishing pattern, … Continue reading CdC May fly with Marc Petitjean
This next fly in the course is the X Caddis pattern. This is a no hackle dry fly that floats extremely well because of the natural buoyancy of the deer hair and Antron tail. I can´t recommend the X-caddis enough. … Continue reading X Caddis pattern
Elk Hair Caddis pattern is from the tying bench of well know American fly tyer Al Troth. This is probably the most well known caddis pattern in existence, and rightly so. The Elk Hair Caddis as it is also known … Continue reading How to tie Elk Hair Caddis
I belive that many great trout patterns have several things in common: they are quick and easy to tie, no special tecniques or tools required. The materials are easy to obtain, that would say available from most fly tying stores. … Continue reading Streaking Caddis fly
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