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Category Archives: Fly Tying
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 →
Introduction To Fly Tying Class
Introduction to Fly Tying Class Begins We will be putting on our second class of the Winter season. Class begins Monday, January 27th and will continue to February 24th. 6-8 pm at the Caddis Fly Shop The class takes place … Continue reading →
Pacific Rockfish Fly Pattern: Purple Surf Candy, Fish Scale and Cure Goo
The Purple Rockfish Candy is another Pacific Saltwater fly inspired by the Bob Popovics’ Surf Candy fly style. Our Pacific Bottom-fish, including Black Rockfish, have teeth and a chomping ability that can wreak havoc with our flies. The Use of … Continue reading →
Puget Sound and Saltwater Cutthroat Fly Tying Video – Pink Shimmer Fringe Surf Candy
This is the first video in Jay Nicholas’s series on Saltwater Fly Tying. The Cutthroat Shimmer Fringe Surf Candy is inspired by the Bob Popovics’ Surf Candy fly style. Whereas Bob created his original Surf Candy to enhance the durability … Continue reading →
Steelhead patterns page updated
We’ve updated our best steelhead fly patterns. These links take you to a page with a YouTube fly tying videos demonstrating how to tie the fly, a high resolution image of the finished steelhead fly, and a fly pattern recipe. … Continue reading →
McKenzie River Fly Patterns page updated
We’ve updated the McKenzie-Willamette River Fly Pattern page with tons of great new trout patterns by Tony Torrence and Jay. There are some old standbys with new twists, some repeats by new tyers with different perspectives on the craft and … Continue reading →
Hottest New Fly Tying Tool: Marc Petitjean Stacker
This new Petitjean product is one of the most exciting innovations in Fly tying tools we have ever seen, no kidding. Marc Petitjean is a creative blend of fly tyer, innovator, and engineer. His tools really work and work. Not … Continue reading →
Saltwater Fly Tying: Tips for using Clear Cure Goo
Very frankly, I was not an instant fan of the Clear Cure Goo Product line. I tried it a little when tying Salmon and Steelhead flies, sometimes applying Goo on top of a fly head already treated with a conventional … Continue reading →
Saltwater Fly Tying: Introduction
I have tied flies for something over five decades, but until recently I tied relatively few patterns that could properly be classified as pure Saltwater Specialty flies. Being predictably unpredictable, I stepped away from my usual range of flies about … Continue reading →
Pale Morning Dun Emerger Fly Tying Video
Tony demonstrates how to tie a Pale Morning Dun emerger pattern. The low floating emerger is perfect for flat water with picky fish. The fly floats low in the surface film and is effective during any Pale Morning Dun hatch. … Continue reading →
Steelhead Muddler Minnow Fly Tying Video
The Muddler Minnow fly pattern is adapted in this video to for steelhead fly fishing. This pattern can be fished on the surface or “skated” or subsurface swung down and across. While the fly has a nice “spun” head Tony … Continue reading →
Bloom’s Parachute Ant Fly Tying Video
This simple ant pattern is highly visible and perfect for summer fishing on a variety of waters. Antron wings can be added before the parachute style hackle as well. Bloom’s Parachute Ant Thread: Veevus 12/0 Black Hook: TMC 100, Sizes … Continue reading →
Foam Body Elk Hair Caddis Fly Tying Video
Tony shows how to tie a quick and high floating Elk Hair Caddis. This simply fly can be tied in numerous colors and fishes throughout the season. Here are a few suggestions for our local waters. Jan-March Black Foam Body … Continue reading →
Purple Stimulator Fly Tying Video
Purple has become one of the most successful trout colors in the west of late. Starting with the Purple Haze in the Rockies and the Purple Rooster locally we have had great luck with purple bodied flies. Maybe the steelhead … Continue reading →