Fly tying materials and tying tools reviews by Barry Ord Clarke
You may find the voice and hands familiar in the add for the Mustad Heritage Fly Hook Range. The new Mustad Heritage fly hooks, give you exactly what the fly tyer requires, design, proportions, sharpness and not least, reliability. All … Continue reading New Mustad Heritage Fly Hooks
The new Barry Ord Clarke – Fly Tying Material pack from Veniard’s, contains all the materials that you need to tie all 12 patterns in the FlyTying for Beginners book I have worked closely with Veniard for the past year, … Continue reading Barry Ord Clarke – Veniard Fly Tying Material pack
“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
A little tour of my tying travel bag that goes just about everywhere with me. Like all Marc Petitjean’s tools and accessories it’s beautifully designed with the traveling fly tyer in mind. Each of the bags are designed to hold … Continue reading Petitjean fly tyers travel bag review with Barry Ord Clarke
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
Many of you have seen my earlier video using a latched sitting machine needle, …this is exactly the same technique just using a different more accessible tool. Continue reading How to tie Daddy & hopper legs
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
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the draw. My web master drew a winner yesterday evening and the Fly Photography Gadget will be sent too… William de Jong in the Netherlands. Congratulations William, please send me your … Continue reading And the winner is….
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!
NESTING HAIR STACKER An hair stacker might seams the simplest of the tools but yet is one of the most important friend for the complete fly tier, not to mention for those aficionados of clipped deer hair bodies or hair … Continue reading Nesting Hair Stacker tool set
“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
Different deer used in fly tying Here I would like to familiarize you with the different deer used in fly tying, the location of the hair on the animal, sex, age, colour, length and applications. Antelope This deer like Antelope … Continue reading The ultimate guide to deer hair part 3
Different hairs from different locations on a deer hide In this second part of the guide to tying with deer hair I will describe the different hairs from different locations on a deer hide. Hair from each part of the … Continue reading The ultimate guide to deer hair part 2
Deer hair fly tying material Having been a passionate fly tyer and deer hunter for the best part of my life, It became a natural progression for me to embrace the material these animals have provided me with over the … Continue reading The ultimate guide to deer hair part 1.
Heres a little tutorial showing how to use Marc Petitjean Magic Tool. Everything from a single CDC hackle to mixing deer hair and CDC for special techniques. Marc Petitjean magic tool set video instructions Buy Petitjean Magic Tool AMAZON Buy … Continue reading Petitjean Magic tool set: How to use
This simple technique shows you how to chemically strip peacock eye tops using just a few household items. One of the jobs that was essential for earlier fly tyers when stripped quills where not available. Always good to know! Continue reading Stripping peacock quills
Like a hares mask, the deer mask offers an abundance of material for the fly tyer. In this tutorial I show how to skin and prep a European roe deer mask. If you don’t hunt yourself, you may know a … Continue reading How to skin Deer mask for fly tying
Petitjean Swiss Vice As well as a high capacity regular C-clamp (100mm-table), the stem and the special looking nut, allows extension arm positions with various angles.The Master can be a pedestal table as well. Delivered with: Cordura zipped padded travel … Continue reading Marc Petitjean explains the Swiss Vice
This ia a short tour of my tying room and photo studio here at home. Not the best filming but you’ll get a good idea of how its layed out and works. Buy MUSTAD signature hooks on AMAZON:Buy VENIARD product … Continue reading Barry Ord Clarke tying room video
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
Here are three quick and easy dubbing techniques with hares ear. 1 Instant goød ribbed hares ear. 2 Fine and spiky and three traditional dubbing rope. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading Hares ear dubbing part III
The second part of hares ear dubbing prep. Blending with Antron, how to achieve different shades and storage. Thanks for watching and please remember to subscribe to the feather benders You Tube channel: Continue reading Hares ear dubbing prep part II
After several requests I have made a short video for hares ear dubbing prep. 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$:TheRiversEdge flyfishing shop – Bozeman Montana:Buy STANLEY products. Free Shipping on all orders!Buy BEST fly tying VISE Continue reading Hares ear dubbing prep part 1
I thought that you might like to see this ‘one off’ vice that was hand-made by Marc Petitjean for me! Marc designed the vice to make photographing flies easier, or should I say quicker. Once a fly is placed in the jaws of the vice, the vice head can be removed and placed into one of the very precisely engineered 4 head slots. This gives the impression of true rotary (through the camera) creating a 360 degree effect both horizontally and vertically ! Photographically this means that I can photograph a fly from above, underneath, the side and from the … Continue reading The Petitjean Photo Master Vice
Heres a nice little film from the science channel showing how a Regal vise is made. Although a good few minutes viewing, they could have made a better job with a little advice on how a vise is used from a real fly tyer… That being said, a good vise and a good advertisement for our craft! Enjoy. Buy MUSTAD signature hooks on AMAZON:Buy VENIARD product on AMAZON:Fly tying tools and materials shop TRIDENT:Buy SIMMS fishing products:EPIC water filters Very useful thing when fishing:Trouts fly fishing Premier Fly Shop & Outfitter:Polarized fishing sunglasses RHEOS 55$:TheRiversEdge flyfishing shop – Bozeman Montana:Buy … Continue reading Regal Vise, how they are made!
THE SPOOL TOWER There are constantly new tools, gadgets and other fly tying paraphernalia being launched as a must have for your fly tying bench. The truth be known, most of them are re-invented copies of existing tools or just … Continue reading The Spool Tower review
Hackle traditionally arouses the greatest passion amongst fly tyers. Cock (rooster) capes of particularly good or rare colour and those with sufficiently short barb length to enable small dry flies to be tied have always been prized. In the 60s … Continue reading Fly tying hackle guide by Barry Ord Clarke
Its not often that I recommend tools but every now and again you come across one thats just worth knowing about. Over the years I have accumulated a good deal of fly tying tools, some bought and many received as … Continue reading Stonfo Pettine comb brush review
My good friend Espen has teamed up with Marc Petitjean to produce his 25th anniversary – Limited Edition vise and it looks fantastic! Continue reading Petitjean 25th anniversary vise
Right now I am at the cottage by the sea busy writing the new book on ‘Patterns for salt water sea trout’ Heres one of the Hoodlum images. All 50 patterns in the book will be presented like this with full stage by stage tying instructions. The book is due for publication in March next year. Over the past few weeks I have had many questions regarding the tying thread I use and where it can be obtained heres the details. I will also re post the piece I did on tying with Dyneema. Veevus GSP Thread (Dyneema) A superb … Continue reading Dyneema tying thread
Ragworm The ragworms wedding as it is known, is called the springs most exciting adventure for the sea trout fishing. And if you are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right time, there is no danger … Continue reading Ragworm sea trout streamer
Since I posted the video of the Veniard 120 challenge, I have been bombarded with questions about the head gear David Edwards and myself are using! They come with three separate lenses x 2. x 2.5 and x 3 that just clip on and off. The head band is adjustable and fits all. If you wish to improve your tying these will do it overnight!! You can see the slightest mistake and the rest. Best Fly Tying Magnifying Glasses They are available from: Sandra or Dave at: The Anglers Lodge Jubilee Lakes Redworth Darlington Co Durham DL2 2UH Email:- info@anglers-lodge.co.uk … Continue reading Head gear for tying!
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
Fly tying, in most cases, begins with a fly tying kit. Unfortunately most fly tying kits can result in the same frustration as starting to tie too difficult patterns. When you open a fly tying kit for the very first … Continue reading Fly tying kit – Build your own
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