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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Silver Doctor This is Kelson’s pattern for the classic salmon fly by James Wright. The photo was featured in the Chasing Silver magazine earlier this year as a full spread. Silver Doctor…
The Childers I know this pattern has been here before but this is quite a different take of the pattern. I tied it this time as a “built-wing” which incorporates many layers…
Kate One of the easier featherwing flies perfect for practice when you’re starting out and just as good when you’ve gained more experience in these classic salmon flies. I put the grey…