National championship 2016. Many who have followed me for a long time know that I’m a big fan of competition tying especially the live competitions like the Finnish Nationals. The competition has…
Thistle. As my friends know I’m not a big fan of the modern popular color combo yellow, orange, red, fiery brown and black on salmon flies. There are a few exceptions though…
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…
H.S.C. Classic Salmon Fly Challenge 2016 The biggest classic fly tying competition is upon us again. Deadline 25th of January 2016. Enter to win over 1000€ worth of prizes. For the rules…
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…
Pitcroy Fancy (variant). An old photo I found when digging through the collection and thought it would be a good pattern to share. The Pitcroy Fancy is pretty simple yet elegant fly…
Ghost Minnow – Step by step. I thought I would open up the tying process a bit of the Ghost Perch posted previously but instead do it with a minnow coloration. The…
Ghost Perch I’m always trying out new materials to improve my flies. One element that I constantly felt was missing from my streamers was translucency. No matter how sparse and hollow you…