Fly Tying Archive

Category: Trout

  • Freestyle Wet Fly

    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…

  • Halesus Tesselatus Realistic Caddis Fly

    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…

  • Realistic Stonefly Nymph

    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…