Fly Tying Archive

Tag: flyfishing

  • Helsinki Spey Clave Demo Day

    Helsinki Spey Clave Demo and Mikael Frödin’s Masterclass Traditional spring demo at Helsinki Spey Clave and this year the guys had arranged a free Masterclass presentation by Mikael Frödin for the customers. Micke also tied some salmonflies today at the shop before we headed out to test some new rods and lines. Håkan Norling was…

  • Mirage Beadhead

    Mirage Beadhead

    Mirage Beadhead. After posting the Hydropsyche Larva varation last week it got me thinking what is the fly I mostly use with it since I rarely fish it alone. Instead I usually have a Czech style nymph rig with 2-3 flies. There are of course many go to -patterns but this simple little fly has…

  • BFFI 2015

    British Fly Fair International 2015 Just went through the set of photos from UK where I attended the BFFI 2015. It was my first time at this legendary show and really enjoyed catching up with good old friends and plenty of new ones. I was seated in the “viking row” with Swedish and Norwegian tyers…

  • Oliver Edwards Hydropsyche Caddis Larvae Variation

    Oliver Edwards Hydropsyche Caddis Larvae Variation

    Hydropsyche Larva When I first laid my eyes on Oliver Edwards’ book Flytyers Masterclass my life changed. It was a real eyeopener to me on what could be achieved with fly tying and immediately changed my approach to tying trout flies. Oliver’s hydropsyche caddis larva especially draw my attention and it’s still one of my…

  • Hi-Vis Bomber

    Hi-Vis Bomber

    Hi-Vis Bomber Salmon dry flies were the last thing on my tying list at the moment but I visited the guys at Helsinki Spey Clave and they had dyed some premium Calf tails that I’ve wanted for a long time. And those beauties shine! It was difficult to even take a photograph of the fly…

  • Jock Scott from G.M. Kelson

    Jock Scott from G.M. Kelson

    Jock Scott Needs no introduction and we’ve even featured this pattern here before but a different Pryce-Tannatt version of it. Because the notes included with the pattern in Kelson’s book The Salmon Fly are so long on this one I will not bother you with my ramblings too much, just like to add that I…

  • Lion

    Lion

    The Lion Here’s the finished fly from our last post that dealt with the underwing construction. For the main wing I tied the bigger portion of it as a mixed wing but with sides and roof not mixed in. The pattern and notes per Land & Water as follows. The Lion         (James Wright.) Tag: Silver…

  • Lion Underwing Step by Step

    Step by step of tying an underwing on the Lion. There’s lots of ways to interpret a classic salmon fly pattern. Some have weird words used in them or things that seem not to make sense. If you have ever written anything you know that there’s also a big possibility for typing errors. Here I…