Fly Tying

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

The Eye-Anchor Wrap This technique is simple, fast, and sure, but restricted to wires small enough to pass through the hook eye.     Step 1.  ...

Folded Film Emerger Wings We saw this approach to forming caddis emerger wings in the work of English tyer Oliver Edwards. Edwards uses Swiss st...

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 ...