Fly Tying

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...

In the early 1970’s, Bill McMillan began writing a four-part series on his life as a steelhead angler for Salmon Trout Steelheader Magazine (STS). ...

“Practice makes perfect.” This old adage should always be in the back of the fly tier’s mind. Although most of us may never achieve “perfection,”...

I’ve highlighted a Syd Glasso style wet fly as a perfect example of inventive pattern revitalization. One of Syd’s favorite fishing flies was the ...