Posts Tagged ‘Tutorial’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
