Search fly tying materials and tools Yellow mayfly This is one of those technique that has recently become extremely popular again, after being more or less shelved, for over four decades. The original Wally wing was created by Canadian … Continue reading How to tie the yellow mayfly step by step
Search fly tying materials and tools Another tutorial on wings. This time the realistic origami wings that when coated with UV resin look like the real thing. Although not really for fishing but a nice technique if you are … Continue reading How to tie origami super realistic mayfly wings
Search fly tying materials and tools Tying the IOBO emerger (It ought to be outlawed variant) About IOBO emerger designed by Jack Tucker The original IOBO emerger or IOBO Humpy, as it is also known, was designed by Jack Tucker … Continue reading How to tie IOBO emerger
Search fly tying materials and tools The Juletræet as the original is called in Danish or translated, Christmas tree is a popular Danish coastal pattern for sea run browns. The original is from the early 80’s and comes from Danish fly tyer Steen Ulnits. This simple but effective pattern is easy to tie but requires the correct Mylar tubing. Many Mylar’s when the weave is opened, the tinsel will be curled and impossible to get to lie flat, you will need one that is easily opened and all the strands of tinsel are straight. The Christmas tree has a great … Continue reading Christmas tree streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools Killer bug Frank Sawyer This classic Grayling pattern from nymph expert and legendary river keeper Frank Sawyer still doesn’t disappoint, but if you follow Sawyer’s tying instruction, the killer or (grayling) bug as it … Continue reading Tying Frank Sawyer Killer Bug
Search fly tying materials and tools Kinermony Killer variant Hair wing salmon flies have their roots firmly planted in North American salmon rivers, slowly but surely after their introduction into Europe, have fully dressed salmon flies with built wings of … Continue reading Kinermony Killer variant salmon fly
Search fly tying materials and tools 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 … Continue reading Barry Ord Clarke tying room video
Search fly tying materials and tools The Imperial The “herring from hell” as it has affectionally been called or Tarpon as they are commonly known, has over the past 30 years established its self a very special reputation amongst … Continue reading How to tie The Imperial Tarpon streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools 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: See CanCooker’s line of indoor/outdoor cooking gear at cancooker.com. Great for Fly fishing adventures Shop now! cancooker.com Continue reading Hares ear dubbing part III
Search fly tying materials and tools 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: See CanCooker’s line of indoor/outdoor cooking gear at cancooker.com. Great for Fly fishing adventures Shop now! cancooker.com Continue reading Hares ear dubbing prep part II
Search fly tying materials and tools 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 See CanCooker’s line of indoor/outdoor cooking gear at cancooker.com. Great for Fly … Continue reading Hares ear dubbing prep part 1
Search fly tying materials and tools Burrowing Mayfly Nymph Hook Mustad R73 9671 # 8-12Tying thread DyneemaTail Olive ostrich herlBody Olive brown Antron dubbingRib Olive Ostrich herlThorax Olive brown Antron dubbingWing case Floss or Antron body woolLegs Olive CdC Although … Continue reading How to tie Burrowing Mayfly Nymph
Search fly tying materials and tools The Matuku The “Bittern” or Matuku as its known in the native New Zealand language of Maori was the source of material used for the wing of this now internationally famous pattern. The Matuku … Continue reading How to tie Imperial Matuka Tobis streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools This pattern is an absolute must if you fish for sea run browns. Extremely quick to tie and very realistic. This pattern I developed to imitate the small glass eels that in the past … Continue reading How to tie 3 minute Glass Eel streamer
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Search fly tying materials and tools 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 … Continue reading Streaking Caddis Video tutorial
Search fly tying materials and tools In the autumn in Northern Europe after the long hot summer when the coastal waters begin to cool down again, its at this time of year you dont want to be without a stickleback imitation! Although the recent tendency for tying and designing sea trout flies has gone more towards imitation patterns, some of which are extremely realistic, I am constantly drawn back to some more traditional styles of tying, that never stop producing fish. This is one of them! This extremely simple pattern is so effective on autumn sea trout that for the … Continue reading How to tie Stingsild bucktail streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools Magic head flat-wing An extremely easy yet effective pattern for Bass and salt water sea trout. The modern flat-wing stile of salt water streamer was developed by the American fly tyer and artist Kenny Abrames. He recommends at these streamers are fished on the drift or with a extremely slow retrieve or a combination of both! When fished in this manner the flat-wing creates the illusion of volume with a rippling swimming movement even if they are so slightly dressed. Its important that have constant contact with your stripping hand and the fly line … Continue reading How to tie Magic Head Flat wing streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools The Royal Wulff 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 a searching pattern as it is as a adult may fly. It just presses all the right buttons, It floats high, its visible even at a great distance in rough water and looks like a mouthful of whatever trout are eating. Although a great pattern, I hardly ever see people tying … Continue reading The royal member of the Wulff pack
Search fly tying materials and tools Inspired by my sons first hunting trip and the beautiful feathers from the female black grouse he shot. In this simple wet fly tutorial I have tried to include as many classic wet fly elements as possible. Tail, tinsel body, oval tinsel rib, palmered body hackle slip wing and throat hackle, but keeping the colours simple. Thor Edward on a very successful first days hunting, here with a female capercaillie the largest member of the grouse family. One of these birds has enough material to tie flies for fishing, for many many years… Hook: … Continue reading How to tie Famous Grouse wet fly
Search fly tying materials and tools 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 no step by step. Although I have located some info regarding the pattern on the net I felt that it deserved a proper step by step tutorial. As far as I understand the Tom Thumb is said to have originated from England in the 1940s, but I find this a little misleading as deer hair … Continue reading Tom Thumb dry fly Tutorial
Search fly tying materials and tools Giving em the Needle 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 … Continue reading Tying the willow fly
Search fly tying materials and tools Black Pennell & Family… One of the classic ‘Black’ flies that has survived the test of time. Classified as a fancy wet or loch style pattern the Black Pennell came from the tying bench of Mr H. Cholmondeley Pennell a wealthy Edwardian english gentleman, who loved fishing in Northern Europe. There are several styles in tying this pattern, some with a fine slim body of only one layer of tying thread, the tapered body, as shown here and one with seals fur or black wool. Although some listings say that the hackle should … Continue reading The Black Pennell wet fly
Search fly tying materials and tools Large dark olive 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, … Continue reading Large dark olive trio Baetis rhodani – LDO
Search fly tying materials and tools Blue Devil Custom This is one of the many patterns from the legendary Rangeley fly tyer Carrie G Stevens. Most of her patterns where tied on 6 X long – 10 X long shank hooks although she did use some that where even 12 X long, these super long shank hooks is what gives these flies their unique profile and silhouette. In 1924 Carrie G Stevens caught a 6lb 13oz brook trout on a prototype streamer she had made herself. She entered her catch into the fishing competition in the well known American magazine … Continue reading How to tie Long Flies-streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools Hook: Mustad S74SNP-DT # 6-4Head: Brass or Tungsten beadTying thread: DyneemaTail: UV2 White Marabu and Crystal hårBody: White chenilleHackle: White cock or saddle hackle Most fly fishermen have at one time or another fished … Continue reading Tying Wooly Bugger
Search fly tying materials and tools Hook: Mustad R 74 # 2 Thread: Dyneema Tail: Siberian squirrel tail hair Body : Squirrel tron dark hares ear dubbing Rib: Fine copper wire Wing: Pine squirrel zonker strip Collar: Natural red fox body hair spun in dubbing loop Gill covers: 2 Ring neck pheasant “church window” feathers coated with Bug Bond Head: Natural kangaroo body hair spun in dubbing loop and clipped to shape Eyes : Epoxy eyes The original zonker pattern was tied by the American fly tyer Dan Byford in the 1970s and was quickly recognized the world over, as … Continue reading How to tie Cottus Gobio sculpin
Search fly tying materials and tools This popular western pattern comes in many variants of colour, wing and tail materials, hackle and single and double hump. The Humpy is also tied in two styles, short and fat and the … Continue reading Tying The Humpy dry fly
Search fly tying materials and tools 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 recognize the spinner fall, danica and vulgata are so large that they can be seen at a greater distance floating in a crucifix posture and lifeless in the surface, sometimes with such a high mortality rate they cover the whole surface of the river. But smaller darker and sometimes almost transparent species can be … Continue reading How to tie Pseudo Mayfly Spinner
Search fly tying materials and tools Its been a few days since my last post, so I thought I would get things going again with a truly modern classic, the Klinkhåmer. When I have held fly tying demos and courses … Continue reading How to tie Klinkhåmer Special
Search fly tying materials and tools Hook Mustad S74SZ # 2/0-4/0 Thread Dyneema Body E-Z Body XL filled with 3-5 beads Under wing White buck tail Wing Chartreuse and white Icelandic sheep Over wing Lime green Big fish fiber Sides … Continue reading Helter Skelter Pike Fly jig.
Search fly tying materials and tools One of the great classic American streamers, developed by the well know fly tier Bill Edson in 1929. The Edson Tiger dark & light where influenced by a streamer called “Dick´s Killer” that Edson … Continue reading How to tie Edson Tiger
Search fly tying materials and tools The ragworms wedding as it is known, is called the springs most exciting adventure for the sea trout fisherman. And if you are lucky enough to be at the right place at the right … Continue reading How to tie the rag worm marabou streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools After approximately four years in testing my Hoodlum sea trout streamer has passed with flying colours! Although a little fancy this streamer was inspired by the sparser flat-wing patterns that have been so effective … Continue reading ‘The Hoodlum’ sea trout streamer
Search fly tying materials and tools This is a quick and simple parachute technique that requires only deer hair and Bug Bond. Hook: Mustad C49 Tying thread: Dyneema Body: Moose mane hair Hackle: Roe deer hair and Bug Bond Thorax: Underfur from deer or moose winter coat. Trident Fly Fishing | Shop the largest selection of fly fishing and fly tying products on the planet. 1. Secure your emerger hook in the vice with as much of the bend clear of the jaws. See CanCooker’s line of indoor/outdoor cooking gear at cancooker.com. Great for Fly fishing adventures Shop now! cancooker.com Continue reading Fender Parachute
Search fly tying materials and tools The G & H Sedge or Goddard Caddis 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 of, if not, his most famous patterns. The dressing and style of tying I demonstrate here, is taken from the 1977 re-print of his 1969 book ‘Trout flies of still-water’. Original recipe Hook: Long-shank 8-10 Tying Silk: Green Underbody: Dark green seals fur Body: Natural … Continue reading Fly Tying Course # 19 The G & H Sedge
Search fly tying materials and tools Flying Mutantz 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 … Continue reading Fly Tying course Flying Mutantz ants
Search fly tying materials and tools 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 floats like a cork, and the 8 rubber legs dance a jitter bug across the surface of the water. I first encountered the Chernobyl ant many years ago, while visiting a fly fishing shop in Toronto Canada, called Skinners. I enquired about good patterns for Brook trout in the north, they said that I … Continue reading Fly Tying Course # 17 Chernobyl Ant
Search fly tying materials and tools This is a simple but extremely realistic salt water shrimp pattern I designed for salt water sea trout fishing in Northern Europe. Ribbon Shrimp Hook Mustad Shrimp C47SNP-DT Eyes: Easy shrimp eyes Feelers/Body: Organdie … Continue reading How to tie The ribbon shrimp SBS
Search fly tying materials and tools Now you should have learned the basics, mounting the hook, attaching the tying thread and the whip finish. With these you should be able to start and finish a fly, its just what’s in between now! I always believe its better to start with a simple pattern that illustrates other elementary techniques, than demonstrating each technique one for one. When you are tying this pattern you may find that handling the materials is a somewhat difficult task especially if you have large fingers and are not use to intricate work. But let me assure … Continue reading Fly tying course # 4 a simple nymph
Search fly tying materials and tools Hi, due to the popularity of the fly tying course I have decided to publish all 20 courses again, so if you know anyone who would like to learn to tie flies or is just getting started please let them know about the course and share the link with your fly tying forums and other fly tying friends. I will be posting one course each day until the 5th January. This on line fly tying course will be dedicated to showing those of you who are new to fly tying all the correct moves … Continue reading Fly tying course # 1 Getting started
Search fly tying materials and tools Many daddy 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 … Continue reading The mother of all daddy’s long legs dry fly
Search fly tying materials and tools Clouser Deep Minnow (variant) Bob Clouser is a well known fly tyer from Middletown USA. He designed the Clouser minnow with the goal of making a pattern that would represent a fleeing bait fish, with a jig motion. The key to achieving this is locating the eyes in the right position on the hook shank. When you retrieve the fly it rises and when you pause if falls or dives. It never stops moving. I am calling this a Variant because I dont believe it to be 100% the original Clouser deep minnow, but I … Continue reading Clouser deep Minnow (Variant)
Search fly tying materials and tools Many daddy patterns are somewhat delicate and easily damaged, be it by fish, or even prolonged casting, and general ware and tare. Here’s a pattern that show you how to make your daddy’s not only more resillient, but also with added float ability. Tipulidae or Daddy long legs as they are more commonly known, are a familiar sight both on and off the water more or less the whole summer. There are in fact several hundred species of daddy’s from just a couple of mm to over 40mm long. Although most species of … Continue reading Deer hair daddy
Search fly tying materials and tools Here are a couple more quick techniques, for making cork like bodies from deer hair and a deer hair guard. See CanCooker’s line of indoor/outdoor cooking gear at cancooker.com. Great for Fly fishing adventures Shop now! cancooker.com Continue reading Tying with deer hair part 3. Spinning ultra tight bodies with deer hair.
Search fly tying materials and tools Anglo – Swedish caddis: This is a hybrid pattern that combines two great patterns, the wing and head of the Swedish streaking caddis and the body of the British Goddards caddis. There are a few techniques here that are useful when tying with deer hair. Cut a thin strip of deer hair from a winter coat, rather like a deer hair zonker strip and attach a Magic tool clip about half way down the hair. With a pair long straight scissors trim off the hide from the deer hair strip. You will see that … Continue reading Techniques for tying with deer hair part 2 Spinning and burning.
Search fly tying materials and tools Stimulator-“Something that causes and encourages a given response” Fly tying course # 20 already! For the many of you that have been following the course, although this fancy dry is a little challenging, if … Continue reading Fly Tying Course The Stimulator Dry Fly
Search fly tying materials and tools Keeping on the salt water theme for sea trout, heres another sand eel pattern that mixes the new with the old. When designing bait fish patterns, a few things I consider are the shape and silhouette of the fish to be imitated. This is important as you never know if the fish will see it, when fished, in a reflected or backlight situation. The size and colour, and last but not least movement. All these can be achieved with a careful selection of materials. I sometimes also like to give the patterns a three … Continue reading Foils rush in where angels fear to tread
Search fly tying materials and tools Hip, Hip and Hurrah ! The autumn sea trout season is just around the corner, and as I can see from the search engine terms on the blog, I am not the only one … Continue reading Essential sea trout patterns for the autumn
