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2021
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Black Foam Gurgler

Coastal flyfishing in the darkest hours of the day is an amazing experience. When the dark closes in and the sea trouts gets close to the shore, your senses changes and strengthens.

Line & Cord Bug

Tying and fishing a useful small bug using old fly line and elastic bead cord. If you've got some old used fly line here's a way to make it catch fish again.

Baby Blue Crab with Claws

This fly pattern is one a customer of mine asked me to tie for them. They sent a picture and I went from there.

Bigfoot Floating Snail

Peter Dobbs's floating snail pattern is a quick, easy tie that works wonders when fish are switched on to floating snails.

CDC Spent wing midge

Tying thread, 0ne CDC hackle and a pinch of dubbing, makes one of the most essential patterns in my fly box! A quick and easy CDC spent wing midge that can be fished just about all year round.

GoFi Sculpin

Baitfish like sculpins is the inspiration for this tying-video of the GoFi Sculpin - a small and lively baitfish-pattern that really can get the attention from predators in the water.

Italian Style Daddy Long Legs

Big bugs or terrestials is a food-source that really can get the fish to rise and inhale a fly on the surface.

North Country Spiders

Materials List: Partridge Partridge Trout Spider #14 https://bit.ly/PartridgeTroutSpiderWideGape

Foam Daddy Long Legs

This is a very popular fly all over and very successful for wild brown trout and the rainbow trout ..really a must have pattern for the flybox.

Kinky Peach

"K-I-S" or "Keep-It-Simple" is the theme of this flytying-video. Only a few materials and a minium of time is what this small nymph is all about.

Muddler Daddy

As we come into late summer the daddy longlegs moves to the top of the trout's menu.

Turbo Beetle

Detailed instructions for tying a Turbo Beetle.

Royal Coachman

One of the iconic American fancy wet flies. Tied on a # 10 Mustad R70 wet fly hook.

Two-Tone Intruder

Detailed instructions for tying a Two-Tone Intruder. This is part of a series of Tim Flagler's collaboration with Fly Tyer Magazine.

You win some, you Loose some!

Not every day fishing is a spectacular day, however fishing is always fun! I don't always catch fish, and this was an example of a day that was less than productive.

Mayfly/Caddis Emerger

Materials List: Partridge Barbless Ideal Dry Size 14 https://bit.ly/PartridgeBarblessIdealDry

Peach Hedgehog

The Peach hedgehog is a very successful fly for fishing for wild brown trout but its true home is the Lochs of Orkney especially Lochs Harray and Hundland'

Rainbnow Pig - Regnbuesvinet

Talking about saltwater flyfishing, it is impossible not to put the focus on flies that imitates shrimps.

Water Walker Variation

Detailed instructions for tying a variation of Will Dornan's Water Walker.

Bottom Up Parachute

Detailed instructions for tying a bottom up parachute on a fly.

Half and Half Fly

The half and half has been around for quite some time. Granted, not as long as its parents, the clouser minnow and the deceiver.

Shannon's Terror

A. Billy Scott seatrout fly one he uses all over Scotland especially on the Ythan. Materials Used;

Wiggle Worm

Even the most fanatic flyfisher just have to admit that worm-fishing properly is one of the most effective methods overall.

Gglajcha Squirmy Wormy

A worm that makes a difference in dirty water. And big fish like to eat a lot.

Zug Bug

One of the classic generic nymphs. Although originally designed to imitate a cased cassis fly, the Zug Bug has proven its effectiveness over many decades.

Gravy Train Midge

As the name suggests, the gravy train midge will give great rewards for little effort. A quick and simple all year round midge that works in most midge fishing situations.

Free swimming caddis larva

A quick and effective free swimming caddis larva for those who need something new in their box. Fish it dead drift or a bottom dropper as part of a team.

Deep Sparkle Pupa

A little variant of the LaFontaine classic. An absolute must have pattern if you are fishing still water caddis fly hatches.

Raghead Crab

This is a Crab that is on most Yucatan and Belizean lodges fly lists, and for good reason it has accounted for hundreds of permit and bonefish.

Flat Head Brenda

The famous Brenda fly originally made for coastal flyfishing by Ove Monrad, but in this case converted into a tube fly.

Sculpin

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Buzzcut Caddis

Tying a caddis/sedge dry fly with just one material.

Top water foam frog

One of my customers sent me a photo of a frog that looked like this and asked me to tie it. So this is what I came up with.

Olive Snatcher

Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Sper Grub size 12 Thread, Uni-8/0 Olive Ribs, Small Gold Wire and Medium UTC Opal Mirage Tinsel Bidy, Olive Diamond Brite Dubbing

Two Methods = Lots of fish!

Fly fishing Some local rivers for rainbow trout using both a switch/two-handed rod to swing some flies and the classic nymphing rod to dredge up some nice fresh run rainbow trout.

Yellow Mayfly

Eventhough the season for fishing the Yellow Mayfly or Heptagenia Sulphurea is over the fly can still fool the fish to rise to the surface and inhale this beautiful pattern.

Bauer Crab

Will Bauers crab pattern is a great permit fly that works all over the Caribbean.

Therapy

Fly Fishing is the best Therapy. After the worst two years of my life I lost my son to a battle with opioids to an overdose on Christmas 2020.

Bunny Bone

Designed by Florida Keys guide Jeffrey Cardenas, this shrimpy little number is a great addidtion to the bonefish box.

Mottled Leach

The Mottled Leach is a small worm fly with a weighted head and marabou tail which give the fly a very lively movement in both still as well as running water.

DIY wooden landing net

Wooden landing nets might not seem like the easiest or least expensive DIY-project, but this article shows how to easily make one almost for free

Petitjean MP 85 Danica Spent Dry Fly

Materials List: Sprite Streamer Hook S2200 #12 https://bit.ly/3wIsBhi

Flash Streamer

Materials List: Partridge Predator X 4/0 https://bit.ly/PartridgeUniversalPredatorX

Parachute Ant

Detailed instructions for tying a size 20 Parachute Ant.

Summer Franicis Shrimp

Small and light salmon fly tied on a double hook for summer salmon in low water.

Syd Glasso

Art Lingren's book on Syd Glasso and his flies pays well deserved homage to a very influential salmon fly tyer

Pattegrisen

Some people love it - and some people hate it… but we all agree on the effective shrimpfly - the Pattegris - is a real must-have in the fly-box.

Fishing the Gulf in the heat of Summer

Fishing in the Gulf of Mexico for redfish and speckled trout can be amazing, especially off the Texas coast. However it can also be very hot!

The Grizzly Wonder

Grizzly hackle is something which most tyers use all the time and which we all take for granted, but in my eyes grizzly isn't nearly as appreciated as it deserves to be

BC Fly Fishing 2021

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