Fly Tying Archive

Tag: realistic

  • Pro Golden Stonefly Nymph

    Pro Golden Stonefly Nymph

    Pro Golden Stonefly Nymph This spring I got some samples of Pro Sprotfishers trout fly tying materials and did some testing with them while planning the trip to US in the prime stonefly season. I’m sorry for the generic name but I hate naming my patterns especially ones I haven’t fished for years and gone…

  • Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly

    Semi-realistic Golden Stonefly Dry Fly

    Semirealistic  Foam Golden Stonefly dry fly I was fortunate enough to get to fish the Deschutes river this spring when the big salmonflies and golden stones were hatching and tied quite a lot of different kind of large stoneflies for the trip. We don’t have as large stoneflies here in Finland and good stonefly hatches…

  • February Red Stonefly Dry Fly

    February Red Stonefly Dry Fly

    The February Red stonefly When the temperature rises for the first times above zero and the sun starts shining it means that the spring is finally here in Finland. It also means that we are going to get the first stonefly hatch of the season on our rivers. The February Red Taeniopteryx Nebulosa hatches are…

  • 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…

  • Halesus Tesselatus Realistic Caddis Fly

    Halesus Tesselatus Realistic Caddis Fly

    The Caddis Fly – Halesus Tesselatus This is an important fly for me. It’s my favorite of all the realistics I have ever tied. It was done for the World Tuscany Open fly tying competition in Italy and won the competition. After good results in the competition I was asked to go tying to the…

  • Realistic Stonefly Nymph

    Realistic Stonefly Nymph

    Stonefly Nymph I will start off by adding some older flies I have tied to the blog to form a base. These will mostly be in chronological order but there might be some exceptions. The honor of being the first fly in my blog will go to a semi-realistic Stonefly nymph that I tied back…