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Category Archives: Fly Tying
Fifty steelhead fly patterns
This week we’re updating the fly tying pages where we collect all of our videos. We started with the most pressing subject: steelhead fly patterns. At this point, we’ve tied, videotaped, and posted around fifty patterns, collected on this page. … Continue reading →
Egg Sucking Tarantula Hairy Leg Leech Fly Tying Video
Winter Steelhead are on the way to an Oregon Coastal River near you. In this video Barrett uses the EP Tarantula Hairy Leg Brush to create a leech pattern with incredible movement. We see this “buggy” “flowee” steelhead pattern working … Continue reading →
Avalon Crab Fly Tying Video
The Avalon Crab fly is said to have been responsible for more Permit being caught than any other fly in the world over the past 15 years. It does have quite a bit going for it, with moving claws and … Continue reading →
Hairy Legged Bonefish Toad Fly Tying Video
The Hairy Legged Bonefish Toad fly is deadly on small Tarpon, Bonefish, Mutton Snapper, Jacks and the list goes on. A perfect mix of movement and mottled color have fish turning their heads in saltwater flats environs. Using the new … Continue reading →
Sculpin Helmet Bunny Sculpin Fly Tying Video
Fish Skull Sculpin Helmets are heavily weighted head you add to your streamer or baitfish patterns. In this short video Barrett Christiansen demonstrates how to create a Bunny Sculpin with the new Sculpin Helmets. These are heavy duty heads and … Continue reading →
Nicholas Gold Tube Comet Fly Tying Video
If you have but one fly to fish for Chinook salmon, reach for the Gold Comet. Ok, this is clearly an over-simplification, but this is one heckuva good fly. Chinook? Check. Oregon and California steelhead? Check. Tarpon? Reputedly, yes. BC … Continue reading →
Product Review: Jade River Turbo Dub Block
Not a particularly fancy review here, and no time to shoot a video demo yet either. Just a peek at a cool new fly tying tool sure to add to your list of must/like/ought/want – to have fly tying materials … Continue reading →
Product Review: Glo Brite Floss
Glo Brite Floss is among the new product offering from Hareline Dubbin for 2012. Glo Bite floss has several properties that make it particularly attractive to the salmon and steelhead fly tyer. First, it is very fine. When I say … Continue reading →
Frizzle Chenille Salmon Egg Fly Tying Video
When the rains finally do come Chinook Salmon will be streaming up many of our coastal waters. As they move or when they are stationed in deeper slots you may need to hit them on the head to get them … Continue reading →
EP Tarantula Hairy Legged Leech Fly Tying Video
Enrico Puglisi and Hareline Dubbin got together to create a new and innovative dubbing brush called EP Tarantula Hairy Legs Brush. The Tarantula Brush come in two different sizes and has tremendous applications in the world of fly tying. In … Continue reading →
Nicholas’ Mack’s Canyon Summer Steelhead Fly
This fly is the Mack’s Canyon and it isn’t. Does this Nicholas’ Steelhead Simplicity adaptation of the Mack’s Canyon catch fish? Yup. Does it perform any better then the original? Sometimes. At least that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to … Continue reading →
Product Review: Gary Krebs Popper Jig Set
The Gary Krebs Popper Jig Set provides a simple, straight-forward means of transforming a plain foam cylinder into a cool looking, easy to cast, highly effective popper body. See the ratty lookin’ popper pictured above? Half the legs gone, tooth … Continue reading →
Steelhead will eat anything
Or so it would seem, based on the box of flies I’m packing for an upcoming trip to a summer steelhead river east of the Cascades. When tying steelhead flies, or really in life, there are only two rules. Rule … Continue reading →
Jeff Hickman’s Flash Taco Steelhead Fly
Our wild and crazy friend and fishing buddy Jeff Hickman knows Steelhead, Salmon, Trout, and the flies they love to eat. His innovative and effective fly patterns are featured by Idylwilde Flies, and we fish these sweeties all the time. … Continue reading →
Rigging Fish Skull Articulated Shanks for Stinger Hooks
Product Review: Fish Skull Articulated Shanks Here, just in time, Fish Skull offers us a nice way to make articulated flies with this product, just released for the 2012 fly tying season. Previously, we have resorted to making our own … Continue reading →