Fly Tying Archive

Category: Trout

  • Peter Ross

    Peter Ross

    Peter Ross This is one of the most famous wet fly patterns today. As the story goes it was invented around 1890’s by Peter Ross from Killin located at the western head of Loch Tay in Scotland. The information varies on his occupation from shopkeeper to a postman and a barber but I guess like…

  • CDC & Elk video

    CDC & Elk video

    CDC & Elk Brilliant pattern by Hans Weilenmann. CDC & Elk is one that should be found in all boxes when you are going to fish in places with caddisflies. Fast to tie, floats well and has a good low floating caddis profile. Add to that another high floating pattern and you’re good to go…

  • Overworked Kaufmann’s Stone

    Overworked Kaufmann’s Stone

    Randall Kaufmann created Kaufmann’s Stone that has become a standard pattern on imitating large stonefly nymphs. This is one of the many versions I’ve tied inspired by that pattern. I tied and shot this for an article on Pohjolan Perhokalastaja magazine that was about different methods for imitating legs on nymph patterns. Hook: TMC 200R…

  • Quill Gordon

    Quill Gordon

    This fly named after the legendary Catskill fisherman Theodore Gordon is still one of the most well known dry flies around the world. Inspired by the British dry flies of the period the pattern uses the same components but adds a segmented body made from stripped peacock quill and wings from wood duck feathers as…

  • Dette Coffin Fly

    Dette Coffin Fly

    Catskill region in America has a unique history when it comes to dry flies. Many famous patterns and tyers originate from the river banks of the Catskill rivers and some of the best known belong to the Dette family.

  • Evolution Heptagenia Nymph

    Evolution Heptagenia Nymph

    Getting the slim and wide profile of a Heptagenia mayfly nymph with enough weight has been always an issue and the Clinger & Crawler beads solve this issue better than anything I’ve used in the past.

  • Bergman Fontinalis

    Bergman Fontinalis

    Bergman Fontinalis. An interesting pattern tied in honor of Ray Bergman as the name obviously suggests. Bergman’s friend Phil Armstrong designed and named the pattern and it’s part of the trout fin series which represent the fins of a brook trout that apparently was a proven bait in the US. To my knowledge it was…

  • Olive Witch

    Olive Witch

    Olive Witch. This is my favorite modification of Carrie Stevens pattern I’ve done. It’s of course a color variant of the famous Golden Witch that we’ve featured before. Sorry about the quality of the photo, it’s pretty old and slightly out of focus but I’m sure you can see what’s necessary from it. Hook: Long…