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Category Archives: Fly Tying Materials and Supplies
This category is a home for information about fly tying techniques, tools, materials, and supplies for the experienced and novice fly tier.
Fly Tying Bench Spring Cleaning
Spring has sprung, and it’s time to finish…or start your tying, as I often do. You walk up to the desk to find the top looking like a blended mess of feathers, fur, and other assorted fly tying materials. Or, … Continue reading →
Blue over Chartreuse Saltwater Surf Candy Fly Tying Video for Pacific Salmon & Rockfish with Bucktail and Cure Goo
Ain’t entirely sure, but I think the Surf Candy fly style is undeservedly under-appreciated on the US Pacific Coast. As I researched saltwater flies, beginning my personal venture offshore, I was struck by the fly’s simple construction, slim profile, and … Continue reading →
Saltwater Rockfish and Ling Cod Clouser Fly Tying Video using Steve Farrar’s blend
We all have favorites and this is my favorite un-conventional Clouser because I rarely see fellow saltwater anglers using orange and black as principle color combinations in their Clousers. I chose these colors with juvenile rockfish in mind but I … Continue reading →
Hot Pink Saltwater Surf Candy Fly Tying Video for Pink Salmon, Coho & Rockfish with Bucktail and Cure Goo
2013 was a big run year for Pink Salmon on the Skagit River in Washington. Everyone, seemingly, who fishes for Pink Salmon touts the wonders of pink flies, baits and lures – so this Surf Candy style of fly stays … Continue reading →
Saltwater Clouser Fly Tying Video for Chinook Salmon and Rockfish with Steve Farrar’s Blend
This Saltwater Clouser fly fishes well in the both open ocean and estuaries. The texture of the Electric Yellow fibers are not as pleasing to my likes as most of the Steve Farrar’s Blends, but it is bright and I … Continue reading →
Saltwater & Puget Sound Shimmer Fringe Pink Clouser Fly Tying Video for Coho and Cutthroat
Surprisingly, this little fly fishes well in the open ocean and in estuarine habitats like Puget Sound and the Frasier River in BC. The fly is small but predatory fish from sea run cutthroat to Black Rockfish know how to … Continue reading →
Hareline Synthetic Quill Body Wrap
Within a few more days it will be official, spring will arrive! Not that some of us will give up chasing chrome native steelhead, in a few more days, but the official pursuit of those beautiful native Redsides will commence! … Continue reading →
Coho Herring Bucktail Tube Fly Tying Video with Steve Farrar’s Blend and Gliss n Glow
This is a big, juicy Bucktail style fly tied on a Tube – a fly intended to stimulate a juicy Herring and induce a savage grab from a Coho in the 15 to 20 pound class. Ha ha. We can … Continue reading →
Tying a Coho Bucktail Tube Fly Tying Video with Steve Farrar’s Blend – BC Needlefish
Trolling Bucktail style flies tied on Tubes was very common during the glory days of ocean Silver Salmon recreational fisheries of the 1950s – 1980s from Northern California through SE Alaska. Regions like Puget Sound and Vancouver Island spawned many … Continue reading →
Coho Salmon Bucktail Trolling Fly Tying Video with Fish Mask and Stinger Hook
Trolling Bucktail style flies for Coho Salmon is an art that has come out of practice here off the Oregon coast since both wild and hatchery silver salmon runs tanked in the 1990s. Improved regulation of ocean fisheries and better … Continue reading →
Saltwater Northern Pacific Albacore Deceiver Fly Tying Video
Pacific Albacore eat fish eat all day, every day. They may eat little tiny baitfish less then two inches long, or great big fat baitfish in the 6” size range, and they may be selective or undiscriminating in their feeding … Continue reading →
Saltwater Coho Salmon Deceiver Fly Tying Video – Using a Fish Mask and EP Sparkle Brush
Coho Salmon are as likely to feed on little shrimp and various larvae as to feed on good-sized baitfish in the ocean, but when they want bait, they will chase streamer style flies with gusto. I wanted to adapt the … Continue reading →
Steve Farrar’s Blend: Review and list of Must-Have Colors to tie this season
OK fellow baitfish fly-tyers, here is a questin answered, as in – Hi Jay, I’m interested in trying some of the Steve Farrar’s synthetic wing materials you have mentioned in your fly tying videos, but am a little unsure as … Continue reading →
Saltwater Deceiver Fly Tying Video for Pacific Rockfish
Continuing Jay’s series on Saltwater Fly Tying: Black Rockfish are opportunistic predators and sometimes feed voraciously on a variety of baitfish – making them vulnerable to a cast-and-strip presentation with a wide range of baitfish fly styles. I wanted to … Continue reading →
Saltwater and Estuary Bend Back Fly Tying Video – Virtually Weedless Chartreuse Chinook Salmon Bendback
The Chinook Bendback is a fly style that has been popularized in saltwater and estuarine waters where anglers fish flies in shallow waters where weeds and muck could easily foul hooks on traditional patterns. The process of bending the hook … Continue reading →