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2024
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Know Your Materials Biots

Dmitriy Lesnov’s Salmon Flies

When on social media of various kinds, you bump into some very talented people now and then. Belarusian Dmitriy Lesnov is one of those talents

Fly Fishing for Trophy Striped Bass

Any striper angler will want to spend a day fishing with the author after reading this book

Tricolore de Ragot

Tricolore

Fly-fishing Turkey

Few anglers think of Turkey as a trout fishing destination, but its unique geography has provided a hotbed for many trout species

Tad Murdock

Tad Murdock is a guide specializing in Fly Fishing North Georgia

Mouches Exquises - Gauloise Bleue

Mouches Exquises are double hackled flies that were first mentioned in a book by Doctor Juge named "Pecheur de Truites" from 1959. Doctor Juge was from Chamberet in the Corrèze.

Light Cahill Parachute with a twist

Detailed instructions for tying a parachute style Light Cahill dry fly. Recipe: Hook: Dry fly hook (here a Lightning Strike DF1), size 14.

Remnant Fly #13

Remnant Fly #13 - Sculpin

Good Search Nymph Pattern

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Sneaky Pete Variation

The Sneaky Pete is a fantastic fish catcher and works for all the black bass and panfish. This is a bit of a variation on the original cork bug, a bit beefed up but just as good as the original.

Strömsö

The salmon season is well underway and the dream of the big shiny Atlantic salmon can give salmon fishermen many sleepless nights.

How to do a backhand cast

The backhand cast is one of the most useful casts in a fly fisherman's repertoire and especially useful when saltwater fly fishing with larger line weight fly rods.

How To Back Cast

Pete Kutzer demonstrates how to effectively backcast, an important casting tool for us all to learn.

Casting backwards

There are a ton of situations where a backcast presentation will save the day. Here are a few good reasons to learn it – and how.

Assassine

This is Jean Paul Pequegnot’s pattern created around 1964. He wanted to combine the high float of a palmer fly with partridge. It worked and caught so many fish he named it the Assassine.

Passe-Partout

Devaux A4 Dry Fly - Gris à Corps Jaune which means "Grey with Yellow Body" and this is a general dry fly pattern with many variations.

Macabi Pitchfork

Along the coasts of Scandinavia, creative fly tyers repeatedly come up with imitations of shrimp that turn out to be super popular and effective at fooling the coastal sea run brown trout.

Thunder Bunny

The Thunder Bunny is a combination of a zonker and the classic Thunder creek minnow and makes a great imitation of small bait like anchovies or silversides.

A different podcast

There’s a surprising number of fishing podcasts out there, but this one is slightly different than most

Lièvre Et Perdix - Hare and Partridge Nymph

This Jean-Paul Pequegnot’s favorite nymph pattern.

Large Cinnamon Caddis

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Imitation Shrimp

As spring arrives and the shallow coastal water gets warmer, large numbers of prey appear and predatory fish will follow. Small baitfish and shrimp are on the menu for e.g.

Long Hackle Dry Fly March Brown

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Ally's Shrimp Tube

We once again had the pleasure of having our friend Casper Hansen behind the vise to demonstrate his bid on one of the most classic shrimp patterns.

Detached Bodied CDC Mayfly

Pat Nolan of Premier Angling CDC.. https://premierangling.ie/product/ultra-select-cdc-2-grams-bags/

White Scandi Leach

In ancient times, sea trout fishing in the rivers was done with sinkinglines and wetflies. That's how it was done, and several well-meaning and instructive books have been written on the subject.

Jig Nymph

There is quite nothing more effective than a deep-fished nymph for the big trouts and grayling in the streams and rivers.

Blue Charm

This small simple feathewinged salmon fly is probably one of the most well-known salmon flies of the Simple Strip Wing family.

Photographing Floating Flies

Getting a decent macro image of a dry fly sitting on water is one of the hardest shots to pull off

Catching Big Brown Trout

We set out in search of a baetis hatch, knowing that there was a good chance for some crazy Spring weather. The day took a few unexpected turns, but everything turned out for the better.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Damsel

International Fly Fishing Film Festival (IF4) Official Selection 2023!!!

DRIFT - A Confluence Film

Released in 2008, DRIFT changed fly-fishing forever. Shot in 16mm film and featuring locations such as India, Montana, Colorado, Utah, Belize, South Andros and Oregon.

La Loue - Rose Champagne Fly

This is Gerard de Chamberet’s La Loue or what was first called Le Rose. It was in a series of grayling flies called La Loue which later just became the name of this pattern.

The Klink

Dutch Hans van Klinken is best known as the originator of the Klinkhåmer Special. This large and beautiful book tells its full story ... and much, much more

Poil de Lièvre - Ragot family

Poil de Lièvre (Hare’s Hair) Eugene Ragot around 1910 wet fly pattern

Ruz-Du

This is a stiff hackle wet French pattern tied based on the listing in Jean-Paul Pequegnot’s book “French Fishing Flies”

Therkildsen Terror

In the late eighties, the local flyfisher and flytyer along the banks of the famous river Mörrum Lars Terkildsen tied a bunch of the famous Ullsocken flies in a new mixture of ginger, brown, and or

Double Winged Olive Dun

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Pat's Rubber Legs

Detailed instructions for tying a very simple Pat's Rubber Legs. Recipe: Hook: Nymph hook (here, a Dai-Riki #285), size 12. Bead: Tungsten bead, 1/8”, black nickel.

Chain Gang Crayfish

We should fish crayfish imitations more than we do. Crayfish can be used to target trout, bass, carp and other species

Concher

This is an unusual fly among Bergman’s Wet Flies in “Trout”. His recipe calls for a floss wing and beard. In J. Edson Leonard it is a quill wing with green and a center stripe of red.

Black Squirrel Flashback Nymph

With it's flashy appearance, this nymph is sure to turn heads on trout and grayling.

Grouse & Hare's Ear

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Bouncing Caddis!

An unexpected afternoon of rain pouring down, and fish looking up! Bouncing caddis dry flies in the rain. Also, tips on how to catch more fish on crowded rivers.

6 Soft Hackle Tube Flies - real under water swimming action

Hot tubes for salmon, trout, bass and other predators. Spring salmon and trout season is here. Grab your vise and stock your fly box with a variety of catchy colors for the new season.

Chico's Snapping Shrimp

This pattern and others can be found in Lefty Kreh's Saltwater Fly Patterns. Amazon https://amzn.to/3EUOgZy

Nervous water Sandeel

Baitfish imitations are a must-have in the box of everyone chasing the fish of their dreams.

Yellow Skjern Zonker

The trophy for most salmon fishermen is the spring salmon. It comes fresh from the sea and is in absolute top condition, and brilliantly silvershiny - a true dream-trophy.

Favorite of Carrère

This pattern is very similar to the English pattern the Red Tag.

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