Fly Tying Archive

Category: Fly patterns

  • Nepenthian

    Nepenthian

    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 article did a long step by step on one of the flies, the Nepenthian, for their blog. You can find the full step…

  • Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly

    Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly

    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 lot of different kind of large stoneflies for the trip. We don’t have as large stoneflies here in Finland and good stonefly hatches…

  • Deer Hair Divers for Pike

    Deer Hair Divers for Pike

    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 time I try to use poppers and divers to attract pike because while maybe not the most effective way to catch pike it…

  • Bergman Wet Flies Tied by Rane Olsen

    Bergman Wet Flies Tied by Rane Olsen

    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 fly patterns from Bergman’s books as listed in the Bergman collection by Don Bastian. I have many times played with the idea of…

  • Chenille Pupa

    Chenille Pupa

    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 go for the simpler ones but when I want to make a bit more chunky pupa this is a good pattern. I’m not…

  • Olive Peacock Intruder

    Olive Peacock Intruder

    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 a Waddington shank, this time the wing consists mostly of Peacock herls. People have been asking for closeups of the body construction on…

  • Rogan’s Fiery Brown

    Rogan’s Fiery Brown

    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 the pattern because to me it clearly shows one in the illustration. This is also the Rogan’s variation with the blue hackle along…

  • Beadhead Stonefly Nymph

    Beadhead Stonefly Nymph

    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 by I think the basic appearance is pretty close. I use tungsten beads and some wire to make these really heavy and sink…