Posts Tagged ‘Fly-Tying’
Beginners Guide to Fly Tying
Fly tying is a skill that is easy to learn, if you start out with the correct attitude. It is essential that you understand that fly tying [...]
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The Gray Ghost Streamer – Fly-Tying Tutorial Video
Streamer flies will be more familiar to North American fly fishermen, who use them to devastating effect in the large rivers throughout the continent, though they are increasingly becoming popular fished in a wide variety of locations, for a variety of salmonoid quarry, not least because the movement and flashes with such flies, fished at speed in [...]
Fly Tying Tutorial Video – How to Use a Bobbin Cradle
This is a really simple lesson for the absolute beginner Fly Tyer: how to use a bobbin cradle. I just used to hook my bobbin onto a screw when I first started tying as a child (actually tying flies in your hands was more popular too...), but nowadays I use the more fancy sort of setup shown here.
The Blood Worm – Fly-Tying Tutorial Video
The Blood Worm is a great little pattern for reservoirs or stillwaters, as it mimics midge pupae which is often found in such places, and is a staple foodstuff for the brown and rainbow trout. This little tutorial video below will show you how to tie the blood worm. You'll need a hook with a curved shank for this pattern, which should be [...]
Pheasant Tail Nymph (PTN) – Fly-Tying Tutorial Video
Another must have under the surface fly is the Pheasant Tail Nymph (PTN), which, when fished upstream in a fast flowing river for brown trout is often a deadly pattern, as it is retrieved slowly on a figure-of-eight in a small still water. Below we have a tutorial video which takes you through tying the Pheasant Tail Nymph. This is another [...]
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 Equipment: The Vice
The vice is the most obvious and probably the most important piece of fly-tying equipment. Without a vice to hold your hook steady, you simply wouldn't be able to tie your fly at all. Most fly-tyers will recommend that you purchase the "most expensive" or "best vice you can afford" and this is in many respects true, however, I thoroughly [...]
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 [...]
