Cyber Week is Here: Get 25% OFF All Renomed Products We are excited to announce our special Cyber Week event running from December 1st to December 5th. In collaboration with our Brand Ambassador, we are offering an exclusive store-wide discount. Whether … Continue reading Renomed Cyber Week

Renomed Fly Tying Tweezers are inexpensive and a joy to use, heres a short review of my favorite two. Check out the link to see the full series. Buy Renomed’s Fly Tyer series tweezers My Go-To Fly Tying Tweezers: A … Continue reading Renomed Fly Tying Tweezers Review

Contour feathers  The contour feathers on a bird are those that cover the body and give it it’s streamline profile, including hackles. These feathers are arranged in an overlapping pattern like roof tiles, with the water repellent tips exposed to … Continue reading Gallo de Leon

In this short, but useful tutorial I’ll show you how I prep snow shoe rabbit and hares feet ready for tying. Using this simple technique, you can get the most out of your feet for wings and dubbing. Snow shoe … Continue reading Snow Shoe Rabbit Foot Prep

The nature of fly fishing – for most of us, is such, that once you have taken the first step and learned to cast with a fly rod and eventually land your first fish, you gain instant membership to a … Continue reading Start tying your own flies?

History tells us that the Unicorn of roosters, Gallo de Leon (Coq de Leon) is without doubt the oldest breed of bird to be bred specifically for fly tying! My good friend Alberto from 54 Dean Street, met with one … Continue reading Interview with Javier Escanciano – Gallo de Leon

Lets start by getting things right, there is some misunderstanding as to what a bobbin is!  A bobbin or spool is a spindle or cylinder, with or without flanges, on which, thread, yarn, wire or floss is wound. A bobbin … Continue reading Best fly tying bobbins

The first of my fly tying tool reviews, The Kopter Revolution Bobbin holder. This Italian made, Kopter Revolution bobbin holder, stems from the classic wishbone bobbin holder design. Crafted from premium aeronautical-grade materials. Ceramic inserts for both entry and exit … Continue reading Kopter Revolution bobbin holder

“As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases“ For those of you that follow my tying you will know that I am a devotee of the true rotary vise. There are many vises that have the label ‘True Rotary’ in … Continue reading Stonfo Transformer Rotary Vise

“As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases“ Christmas gifts for the fly tyer Vision Aid magnifying glasses with LED Light. These come with five separate lenses x 1, X 1.5, X 2. x 2.5 and x 3.5 that … Continue reading Best Fly Tying Magnifying Glasses

54 Dean Street fly fishing shop offers a great discount of 15% on premium fly tying products. Code TFB54 valid on all Cottarelli Products, Kopter Products, CDC Super Select, the Nesting Stacker and the Stacker Mini. 15% discount and is … Continue reading 54 Dean Street Christmas discount promotion

If you are looking for great stocking fillers for the fly tyer in your life for Christmas check out the great fly tying/fishing website Troutline of Lucian Vasies. They have some of the very best and innovative materials and equipment … Continue reading Troutline fly fishing shop

Another nice tool and how to use it. These easy to use foam cutters make nice cylinders in six different sizes that have many uses for the fly tyer. Boobies, emergers, parachute posts and ants just to name a few. … Continue reading Foam Cutters Upavon Gunville

The various plumages from the oriental golden pheasant undoubtedly feature more frequently in salmon fly tying than those of any other bird. As well as the famous neck (tippet) and crest (topping) feathers, the golden pheasant provides many other useful … Continue reading Golden pheasant feathers

The most common of the pheasants and most easily obtained. The ringneck pheasant is arguably the most useful single bird to the fly dresser, just about every single feather on the bird can be used.  The small church window feathers … Continue reading Ringneck pheasant feathers for fly tying

This is the latest stacker in the Nesting Stacker series. The Micro stacker has been designed specifically for dry fly tails and wings. It may look like other stackers, but a great deal of thought has gone into the design … Continue reading Explaining the Micro nesting hair stacker with Barry Ord Clarke

When your need is to perfectly stack and align rooster or Coq de Leon fibers to create the most precise tails or wings, you can’t simply go with your standard hair stacker. You need a dedicated tool, small enough to … Continue reading Nesting Hair Stacker Micro

The full fly Photography Gadget set that will be given away on 17th March, and the winner will be a announced on the 18th March 2021. Flies Photo Gadget Giveaway / Share and winAnyone who shares this post on their … Continue reading Fly Photography Gadget Give away!

“As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases“ For many of us fly tyers, we love collecting, and over the years buying a cape here and a saddle there, have resulted in a small fortune invested in materials. These … Continue reading Fly tying materials: Organization & Storage

These are spade hackles from the roosters of rare breeds of domestic fowl, that originate from the region of Leon in northern Spain. Flor De Escoba The feathers have remarkable colourations and, in the traditional Spanish patterns in which they where used, are not wound onto the hook as a normal hackle.Instead bunches of the fibres are bound onto the hook and then splayed with the tying thread to obtain a radial hackle effect. The speckeled plumage also make excellent tails and caddis wings. The feathers have become more easy to obtain in recent years as their popularity within fly … Continue reading Coq de Leon review