Fly Tying Archive

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  • WIP Mar Lodge

    WIP Mar Lodge

    WIP photo of a Pryce-Tannatt Mar Lodge

  • Jock Scott Step By Step

    Jock Scott Step by Step Probably the best known and most popular Salmon Fly of its time. Famous anglers such as Major J.P. Traherne have said that if they could have only one fly to fish with it would be a Jock Scott. Bold statement from a man who himself is regarded as the finest…

  • Jock Scott Sketch

    Jock Scott Sketch

    Planning your flies I’m not much of an artist when it comes to drawing or painting but I like to sketch flies to get a better feel for proportions. Especially if I have taken a break from a certain style of tying it helps me to get the look that I want to achieve. In…

  • Realistic Caddis Dry Fly Video

    Semi-Realistic Caddis Dry Fly New video step-by-step of a fairly simple but realistic Caddis Fly. This is one of my own patterns but it’s basically a variation of the many realistic Stoneflies around from Paul Whillock for example. For the waters I fish and the insects I imitate the short shank #14-16 hook (here Kamasan…

  • Alive Shrimp

    Alive Shrimp

    Alive Shrimp Jesper Petersen’s shrimp pattern for Danish Sea Trout fishing. I had the privilege to tie this fly with Jesper this spring and was really taken with the thought he had put in to it. The fly is designed to swim and sink in the correct position and as the name suggests move elegantly…

  • Silver Grey from G.M. Kelson

    Silver Grey from G.M. Kelson

    Silver Grey One of my favorite patterns ever designed for salmon. This time tied with really sparse wing and closer to “classic Finnish style”. Haven’t caught any salmon with it yet but this very fly has given me few brown trouts so I added a photo of one for your amusement. The pattern is pretty…

  • Black Prince

    Black Prince

    The “Black Prince” Major John Popkin Traherne’s flies are recognized by many as the most beautiful salmon flies ever created. Many of them have fullfeather wings which has never been too common in salmon flies. They were first introduced by Traherne’s good friend George Kelson in his articles in Fishing Gazette. When tying a topping…

  • Prince Nymph

    Prince Nymph

    Prince Nymph Originally called Forked-tail Nymph and originated in 1930’s by brothers Don & Dick Olson. There are many stories about the name of this fly but to my knowledge Doug Prince started using this fly and had good success with it. Buz Buszek wanted to include the pattern that Prince had tied for him…