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and Sea Trout Fly Compendium – Grewcock & Carne This massive book that features basically all published and some unpublished classic salmon flies compiled by Barry Grewcock with the help of Dave Carne was published this summer as a limited edition on a pre-order only basis.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