What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

Inadvertently, I created a fly pattern that not only bounced along on the bottom, had the shape and shade of many species of caddis larva, and also had the strong attractant of adhering bubbles. Bingo ...

I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

Flies using the fur of hares have been tied and fished effectively since the 1600s. In 1676, a pattern like what we might recognize today as a Hare’s Ear was described in the book “The Compleat Angler ...

an Andre’ Puyans nymph fly pattern using the recipes and instructions in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla and The Book of Fly Patterns by Eric Leiser Hook: #10 - 18 nymph, weighted Thread: gray Tail: ...

The Pheasant Tail Nymph or Sawyer’s Pheasant Tail was first tied by Frank Sawyer in 1958. Frank, river keeper on the Hampshire Avon (The word “Avon” means river) was also a skilled fly tyer and author ...