Fly Tying Archive

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  • Pitcroy Fancy

    Pitcroy Fancy

    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 and a good alternative for a Silver Doctor when you are looking for something a bit more subtle. Looking back on this fly…

  • Ghost Minnow Step By Step

    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 pattern is basically the same, only different colors and of course without the stripes. It imitates all kinds of minnow and fry species…

  • Perch Streamer

    Perch Streamer

    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 tie a fly it would always be pretty opaque in the water due to opaque materials. Couple years ago I was excited when…

  • Royal Coachman Wet Fly

    Royal Coachman Wet Fly

    Royal Coachman. Originally a variant of course from the Coachman wet fly was commercialized and named by the Orvis family in the last quarter of the 19th century. The red band of silk was originally added to protect the herls but the way I tie my herl bodies with a reinforcing thread I think this…

  • Raven from Brad Burden

    Raven from Brad Burden

    Raven with hackle wings Here’s a slight variation of Brad Burdens steelhead spey pattern developed for the Oregon rivers. Bob Veverkas book on spey flies has been a huge source of inspiration for me and many others and the plate featuring Burden patterns is one that I like to visit often. To me they are…

  • Muddler Minnow

    Muddler Minnow step by step Don Gapen invented this legendary pattern for the Nipigon river in Canada. It was supposed to imitate Cockatush minnow which is a sculpin and called a “muddler” in parts of Wisconsin. The muddler wasn’t supposed to be that type of firm and clinically cut that we like today but rather…

  • Bullhead Diver

    Bullhead Diver

    Bullhead Diver I use quite a lot of Sculpin patterns that use different zonker and muddler head combinations. This one is the latest addition to the line and it differs from the previous ones with having a reversed hook and dumbbell eyes. I usually fish these with quite a short line so castability is not…

  • H.S.C. Demo Day video with Mikael Frödin

    Video from HSC demo day and Mikael Frödin’s Masterclass. Here’s a short film I made for Helsinki Spey Clave from the events I posted about earlier. Also few clips from the Perfect Drift Masterclass by Mikael Frödin. Sorry about the audio quality on the masterclass clips, I didn’t know I was going to shoot video…