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Silver & Gold March Brown
Silver & Gold March Brown We continue with the classic wet flies for the moment. Here’s a couple that you all should recognize. As deadly as the March Brown is with a brown dubbed body it’s often worth it to try also the more flashy cousins of March Brown. Here’s the recipe (replace silver with…
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Caldwell
The Caldwell This is a classic wet fly pattern from Ray Bergman. It is tied on a beautiful Vintage #4 Dublin bend hook. This fly is now in the possession of one of the finest tyers I know, Martin Bach from Denmark. Tail: Bronze Mallard Rib: Yellow floss Body: Brown floss Hackle: Brown Wing: Light…
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Freestyle Wet Fly
Freestyle Wetfly This fly is done with classic wet fly proportions but the pattern is my own and the wing is quite complex. Hook: #6 Vintage Mustad with the eye cut off Tail: Mandarin Duck Butt: Peacock Herl Rib: Silver Tinsel Body: Black Floss Hackle: Lt. Blue Hen hackle Wing: Turkey fibers from white to…
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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…
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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…