Category Archives: Fly Tying

In our first video Tony gives some tips on blending your own special nymph dubbing. When you add numerous colors to the blend, greater color depth and longer fiber length is achieved. This dubbing blend can even be used as … Continue reading →

Harwick’s Hoser tube fly works well for steelhead both Summer and Winter. Tony demonstrates how to tie this multi step large profile pattern. Tie a few and and them to your box! Hartwick’s Hoser Thread: Veevus 10/0 Black Tube: Protube … Continue reading →

How great can it get? Jay Nicholas woke up today and found the freedom to slap down the coolest, most fish appealing colors, textures, and proportions of materials on an one of the new Greg Senyo Articulated Intruder shanks. Life … Continue reading →

Scott Howell’s Ska Opper is easily our favorite skating steelhead dry fly. In this video Tony demonstrates how to tie this pattern in it’s natural color scheme. The video is a bit longer than we like, but the fly is … Continue reading →

Jay Nicholas’ tying fun and experimentation just keep driveling on and on. The only commodity in too-short supply is time and places to go and fish these great looking flies. Some of the newer materials available have really made our … Continue reading →

Tony demonstrates how to use the new Copic Airbrushing Kit, Copic Markers, and Pattern Coloring Sheets on a natural feather. We have also used the Copic kit on synthetics and the Copic Markers are fantastic for adding contrast and coloration … Continue reading →

Jay Nicholas ties a very simple, but highly adaptable tube leech using rabbit, flash, marabou and senyo’s laser dub. The pattern can be adapted to catch many species and be tied in numerous colors. In black, blue, pink, purple, and … Continue reading →

Ramsey’s Goofball has become one of our favorite fly patterns for 2013. The Goofball is a great general attractor, and it can imitate numerous insects. This Winter/Spring we used a green Goofball for a Cicada in New Zealand. In April … Continue reading →

Jay Nicholas claims that black and blue are well-known steelhead attractors. He’s probably right on that one. So is Flashabou. Jig hooks keep a swinging fly from snagging on rocks and sticks more so than a traditional down point hook. … Continue reading →

Jay Nicholas goes at the tube fly craze with abandon here – because Tubes seem the perfect vehicle for tying any and every bugger fly in the fishing universe. Buggers are long flies, and the use of a short shank … Continue reading →

I have been tying a ton of fun saltwater flies lately, fishing them all, from Deceivers to SeaDucers, to clousers, to Toad-like flies, and Crab-like flies, and Squid like flies, and some worked well and some required tuning but the … Continue reading →

Jay Nicholas is having more fun trying his tying hand at adapting our standard patterns to tubes and new materials. Yes, this is fun. Will these catch fish? Absolutely. We have fished enough flies la all sorts over our collective … Continue reading →

This is another Internet-Poached fly that Jay Nicholas is tying to demonstrate some of the creative tying possibilities offered by Greg Senyo’s Laser Yarn. By the way, that guy Greg is quite an interesting fellow, great tyer/angler, and a ton … Continue reading →

The insanely cool baitfish pattern in the video above is tied with Fish Skull Articulated Fish Spine. You can vary the body material we suggest CCT body Fur or Tarantula Hairy Leg Brush one inch, and Frizzle Chenille, all materials … Continue reading →