Fly Tying Archive

Category: Featherwing

  • Stunner

    Stunner

    The Stunner Frederic Tolfrey’s Jones’s Guide to Norway from 1848 is perhaps the most sought after book for salmon fly tyers collecting 1st editions of the classics. Not least because the book has some of the most beautiful fly plates by the Adlard brothers. You can expect to pay 5000-7000$ for a good copy when…

  • No. 4 for salmon from The Driffield Angler

    No. 4 for salmon from The Driffield Angler

    No. 4 for salmon from The Driffield Angler This was a practice fly I did on how to make a reversed wing on an salmon fly in hand. Not a common winging method today on feather winged flies but makes for a very durable wing. This was the second time I tried to tie the…

  • Fraser Sandeman’s No. 3

    Fraser Sandeman’s No. 3

    Sandeman’s No. 3 Fraser Sandeman is one of the old legends who is not so well known today. His two books “By Hook and By Crook” and “Angling travels in Norway” are however very interesting to read and should be considered as some of the standard books of the period in my opinion. As many…

  • Greenwell from T.E. Pryce-Tannatt

    Greenwell from T.E. Pryce-Tannatt

    Greenwell Another classic salmon fly that is found in many variations in the old books. This one is tied according to the pattern in T.E. Pryce-Tannatt’s How to dress Salmon Flies (1914) that is usually concidered to be one of the last classic books on salmon fly tying. The pattern again differs a bit from…

  • Yellow Anthony

    Yellow Anthony

    The Yellow Anthony Here’s a neat little pattern from Francis Francis’s A Book on Angling where it’s recommended for the river Lee in Cork, Ireland. Unfortunately the river today isn’t in all of its former glory because it has been dammed for a hydro-electric scheme although you can still catch salmon in the lower parts.…

  • Lady Caroline Video

    Lady Caroline Spey Fly Here’s a video of me tying a Lady Caroline which is a classic Spey fly although it differs from most Spey flies by having a tail. It still became one of the popular Spey flies and is widely used today. The fly is named after Caroline Elizabeth Gordon-Lennox who lived 1844-1934.…

  • Mar Lodge from T.E. Pryce-Tannatt

    Mar Lodge from T.E. Pryce-Tannatt

    Mar Lodge Very popular classic salmon fly that can be found in many fly boxes even today. One of the nicest things about this fly is that it uses only natural materials so no feather has to be dyed for this one. The black bar in the center can also be tied longer 1/3 of…

  • WIP Mar Lodge

    WIP Mar Lodge

    WIP photo of a Pryce-Tannatt Mar Lodge