I started to use squirmy nymphs around 2013-2014. First time I used these flies on lakes on rainbow trout and black bass. I was impressed by how effective are. I'm a classic fisherman who love feathers and fur and I love traditional flies. So I looked at squirmy with curiosity and skepticism in the same ...
Sometimes you need to use over-sided bead to arrive down. Especially when the river is high and currents are stronger than usual. To compensate the exaggerate bead size is enough to add a few barbs of cdc behind. In this way you will obtain a killer nymph Materials: Jig hook in size #16-18bead in size 35-3mm made ...
Egg Laying Sedge represent a consistent source of food for trout. They float a lot on river, swim in water to lay down their eggs and are hatching in a huge number. When you see these insects flying all over then you should switch on sedge flies. Egg lying sedge is more vulnerable ...
We are very happy to let you know that we have 2 new members in our Pro Team : Manuel and Bernd are the Austrians :) Both young with "joie de vivre" are very dynamic and passionate about fly fishing and fly tying. They are high skilled fishermen and tiers with lots ...
Here is a new superb video about how Barry is tying an effective Yellow Mayfly. Materials used: standard dry fly hook tail made of coq de leonbody made of biot in yellowhackle grizzly dyed yellowwings made of yellow mallard drake flank
This is dry version of gold ribbed hare ear tied as sparse as possible with CDC wing Materials Hook: #14-16Thread: yellow, white or black, depending of what you want to obtain as final body color of flyribbing flat tinsel in goldlong tail made of Coq de Leonbody made of mad rabbit dubbing or spiky dubbing in natural ...
These days is not difficult to find all type of fly hooks, you can find them in any fishing shop. As tiers I consider that we are blessed, we never had such abundance of materials 20 years ago. Now, in these days, you can find all kind of fly hooks in all sizes with ...
CDC Parachute flies are not the easiest flies to be made. But is you figure how to make it and if you prepare the materials firs, tying time is fun! I love to CDC Parachute flies because they float just great. a Parachute fly will sit on the water like no other fly can do. The ...
Simple, effective and easy to tie this green peacock and hare wet fly is a winner. Trout love it and if you tie it on small hooks will work on grayling too. The hackle is made with Hare guard fur, a material that i love more and more for his versatility, for his ...
I love ants and my favorite model for trout fishing is the cripple quill ant . It is simple to tie and you will need only a few materials: Hook #10-14thread: blackunder-body made of black threadbody is made of natural peacock quillhackle is made of hare guard furwing- just a few white cdc barbs Underbody made ...
