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Black Dog from G.M. Kelson
Black Dog (Kelson) Lets start the feather winged salmon flies with one of the best known classics, the Black Dog. There’s many variations from different authors but this one follows quite closely to the one in George Kelson’s “The Salmon Fly”. Here’s the recipe from the book: Black Dog George Kelson – The Salmon Fly,…
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RAT series
RATs! RAT series is probably one of the best known hair winged salmon flies. They were created by Roy Angus Thomson from whose initials the name comes from. These are my own color variations of the RATs. There is an original Red RAT but the recipe differs from pictured quite a lot. You can find…
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Freestyle Wet Fly
Freestyle Wetfly This fly is done with classic wet fly proportions but the pattern is my own and the wing is quite complex. Hook: #6 Vintage Mustad with the eye cut off Tail: Mandarin Duck Butt: Peacock Herl Rib: Silver Tinsel Body: Black Floss Hackle: Lt. Blue Hen hackle Wing: Turkey fibers from white to…
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Halesus Tesselatus Realistic Caddis Fly
The Caddis Fly – Halesus Tesselatus This is an important fly for me. It’s my favorite of all the realistics I have ever tied. It was done for the World Tuscany Open fly tying competition in Italy and won the competition. After good results in the competition I was asked to go tying to the…
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Realistic Stonefly Nymph
Stonefly Nymph I will start off by adding some older flies I have tied to the blog to form a base. These will mostly be in chronological order but there might be some exceptions. The honor of being the first fly in my blog will go to a semi-realistic Stonefly nymph that I tied back…