Fly Tying Archive

Tag: salmon

  • Balmoral

    Balmoral

    Balmoral Named after the famous castle of the royal family in Aberdeenshire, Scotland this is a typical Dee fly pattern. I probably used a bit too bright colors on the body as earlier patterns give black as the color in front so the dark blue should most likely be really dark. I also switched the…

  • Childers

    Childers

    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 of wings and sides. Haven’t tied many full dressed classics lately and it felt good to get back at it. Here’s the recipe…

  • Black Gordon

    Black Gordon

    Black Gordon Spey I found this pattern from Bob Veverka’s book Spey Flies: How to Tie Them. There’s a plate of Steelhead Speys by Oregon tier Brad Burden and it’s one of my favorite plates in the whole book. I used hen hackle for the wings as opposed to rooster. They have a more opaque…

  • Black Ranger

    Black Ranger

    Black Ranger I tied this as a quick fishing fly with no material prep like forming crests. They will eventually take their place in the water so the prep is just for the show although I think it helps to achieve correct proportions and making sure you tied everything straight. Black Ranger a simple pattern…

  • Orange Heron from Syd Glasso

    Orange Heron from Syd Glasso

    Orange Heron One of the most famous Syd Glasso patterns that he used especially for winter Steelhead in the Pacific Northwest. I use featherwinged streamers quite a lot for Trout so I really like the idea of using them on salmonflies too. The trick is not to tie the wing flat on top of the…

  • The Classic Salmon and Sea Trout Fly Compendium

    The Classic Salmon and Sea Trout Fly Compendium

    The Classic Salmon and Sea Trout Fly Compendium – Grewcock & Carne This massive book that features basically all published and some unpublished classic salmon flies compiled by Barry Grewcock with the help of Dave Carne was published this summer as a limited edition on a pre-order only basis. It’s mostly a pattern reference book…

  • Nepenthian

    Nepenthian

    50 photo step by step instructions on how to tie Trahernes Nepenthian I wrote an article on Chasing Silver Magazine about J.P. Traherne and his salmon flies and in addition to the article did a long step by step on one of the flies, the Nepenthian, for their blog. You can find the full step…

  • Olive Peacock Intruder

    Olive Peacock Intruder

    Olive Intruder Pretty far away from the original intruder but I just couldn’t come up with a proper name and this will have to do for the time being. Tied again on a Waddington shank, this time the wing consists mostly of Peacock herls. People have been asking for closeups of the body construction on…