Fly Tying

As a Fly designer, I strive to create new flies or improve on existing patterns to solve a problem, not just to make something new for the sake of ...

“Those of us who will not in any circumstances cast except over rising fish are sometimes called ultra-purists and those who occasionally will try ...

One of the joys of fly tying is finding new materials to create unique flies. A new material might give that older pattern a unique look that will ...

The Balanced Leech can be extremely effective for fooling trout, especially on windy days. Balanced Leeches are designed to hang horizontally when ...

This technique produces a body from two strands of material spiraled simultaneously along the shank to make stripes. Striped chenille bodies can ...

From The Fly Tiers Benchside Reference:     Techniques and Dressing Styles by Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer (Pre-Order Now)       The Eye-Anch...

From Page 342 of The Fly Tiers Benchside Reference: Techniques and Dressing Styles by Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer (Pre-Order Now) Method #93...

These are a pair of BRIGHT, in your face marabou Spey flies from Deke Meyer. These patterns were devised for use on the fisheries of the Great Lake...

How to tie the Pheasant Tail Nymph by Jim Schollmeyer & Tracy Peterson   Hook: Nymph, Standard to 2X Long #12 - #18 Thread: Brown 6/0 or 8...

Homework complete, Braden is at home behind his Norvise Rotary Vise. Though he’s become expert at tying flies from size 30 to billfish flies, his...

One of my lifelong dreams has been to fish for peacock bass in their natural habitat. Unfortunately, that dream is further off than I would like, ...

Picture the scene - sometime around the early 1930’s a retired British Army Colonel is fishing Arthur Lake, one of a chain of lakes north of Falkla...