Lemon and Grey Classic featherwing fly that I taught at the latest workshop. Had to make few adjustments to the pattern from Pryce-Tannatt since some of the materials are very hard to…
Banana tube fly Step-by-step with Anton Pousar Scandinavian style tube flies are extremely popular at the moment for salmon all over the world. We have guys like Mikael Frödin and Håkan Norling…
The Britannia Rare pattern because the wing is made of feathers from the Northern Shoveler duck. The fly itself must have been pretty popular since there are vintage versions of it left…
Highland Gem (Kelson) Not surprisingly another fly from Kelson’s The Salmon Fly. Haven’t been really impressed with the pattern before but I’ve seen few takes on it that opened my mind. I…
Francis Francis’s No 1 for The Suir This one’s an interesting little fellow from Francis Francis’s A Book on Angling. Pretty sure this was not the way it was tied back then…
Blue Charm Variation A bit different take on the famous all-round salmon fly The Blue Charm. This one is pretty small fly in modern standards since it was tied on a #2…
Ephemera 10. First fly to this blog from Edward Fitzgibbons (written under the pseudonym of Ephemera) magnificent The Book of the Salmon from 1850. Fantastic little pattern that would be a good…
The Floodtide (Kelson) A bit more unusual fly from George Kelson’s The Salmon Fly. Unusual because of the Eagle hackle which is not so commonly used on salmon flies today and because…