50 photo step by step instructions on how to tie Trahernes Nepenthian I wrote an article on Chasing Silver Magazine about J.P. Traherne and his salmon flies and in addition to the…
Semirealistic Foam Golden Stonefly dry fly I was fortunate enough to get to fish the Deschutes river this spring when the big salmonflies and golden stones were hatching and tied quite a…
Deerhair divers for Pike Pike season is fully starting here as the waters keep getting cooler and the big pikes come to the more shallow parts of the water. From time to…
Ray Bergman’s wet flies tied by Rane Olsen This is such a great feat completed by a Finnish tyer Rane Olsen that I had to share it with my readers. 234 wet…
Chenille Caddis Pupa This type of crocheted chenille pupa body used to be popular in Finland but has now been overrun by simpler patterns. I have to admit that I too usually…
Olive Intruder Pretty far away from the original intruder but I just couldn’t come up with a proper name and this will have to do for the time being. Tied again on…
Michael Rogan’s The Fiery Brown Another small salmon fly tyed in hand, this time from the book Fishing by Cholmondeley-Pennell that’s part of the Badminton Library -collection. I added a butt to…
Beadhead Stonefly Nymph Been tying some stonefly nymphs for a coming trip abroad and thought I’d share this pattern that is inspired by Kaufmann’s Stone nymph. Materials and some techniques are different…