‘Fly-Tying’ Archives
The Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear (GRHE): Fly-Tying Tutorial Video
Another day, another fly-tying tutorial video from the excellent David Cammiss - today we have the Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear (often abbreviated to GRHE for obvious reasons!) which is another 'wet' fly designed to be fished below the surface. The gold ribbing adds ballast to the fly, making it a good top-dropper fly for you upstream nymphers in [...]
Fly-Tying for Beginners – the Diawl Bach
The Diawl Bach, or Little Devil, is an important all-round fly for fishermen of small stillwaters and reservoirs - it will even prove a successful pattern on many rivers - for trout fishermen. The Diawl Bach is not an imitative fly, rather it is a general "attractor" pattern which mimics key features of the intended creature - in this [...]
Fly-Tying Tutorial: Tying the Buzzer Lesson
This is a great little lesson for the total novice fly-tyer as Buzzers make a great start due to the lack of complexity in many designs: most successful buzzer patterns owe much to the sparseness of their design, making them great little confidence builders! A 'buzzer' is the pupal stage of aquatic insects - most often midge pupae - which trout [...]
Fly-Tying Tutorial Video: Using the Whip Finisher
This is a little tutorial video that novice fly-tyers might find useful - particularly if you got a box of fly-tying wquipment and can't work out how some of the bits and pieces work! This is the "Whip Finisher" and the video below shows you pretty much how it is used to finish off flies - usually to tie the "head" (final) section of the fly [...]
Fly-Tying: The Adams Irresistable with Davie McPhail
This is the first, I hope, of many videos we will feature from Davie McPhail: this Scotsman produces really excellent fly-tying videos on YouTube and we are going to be featuring many of them over the coming weeks and months as we look to replenish our stocks of flies before March. In this video, Davie ties the "Adams Irresistable" which is a [...]
Books: The Fly Tying Bible, by Peter Gathercole
The Fly-Tying Bible by Peter Gathercole carries a weighty title, but does it live up to it? Robin Scott finds out. I wish I had first picked up this book when I was around 12 or 13, around about the time I was given my first "starter kit" of vice, bobbin and bits of hackle to begin my first haphazard forrays into the skilful world of fly-tying: [...]
