I certainly love dry fly fishing and Danica insects are the Queens :). At the end of May and in June this fly starts hatching and is better to be prepared with a few nice Danica imitations. Having a few of them in your box is not bad at all, sometimes they will save your ...
For those who love to fish with swimming nymphs using French Style here is a great model with lot of movement when is in drifting. The fly can be tied without weight or slightly weighted. I prefer to use Tungsten Wire to keep the slim profile. In the end the fly should imitate a delicate ...
Summer is near. The rivers are starting to heat up. Insects are becoming more abundant. An insect that is an important food source for trout and grayling is becoming more and more present: sedge fly. Here is an easy sedge pupa to make and efficient in the same time: Yellow Caddis Pupae. Hook: Demmon G602 BL ...
Brown Swimming nymph is my version of Pheasant Tail Nymph when I fish in rivers with trout. This model is durable, more easy to tie and can be coated with UV resin to make it more resistant to fish teeth. Materials: Demmon N500 #12-14Under body thread - brownBody: Troutline Synthetic Nymph - grey colorTail: Coq de ...
This type of baby fish is super easy to tie, even a beginner can make it fast and without headache. The white marabou baby fish can be used for lake fishing and river fishing in the same time. You need a little bit of synthetic dubbing to make the body. Sometimes I only simply ...
I love fishing with nymphs in Spring. Caddis flies are my favorite imitations and one of my most used nymph is Peeping Caddis tied super simple. But sometimes I like to play at the tying vice and to make different variations. As you know, long winter time gives me all sort of ideas ...
This fly tied by Jan is effective in early Spring and Summer too. Can be fished as single or in a team with another wet fly. Down and across is the most used technique. The pattern can be made on larger hooks without any problem, the classic rule : small flies for picky fish and large ...
This delicate emerger is made for fishing in slow and medium running rivers. It can be used for lake fishing too. The fly should be tied as delicate as possible because grayling and trout has a lot of time to check how this fly flows in water film. Hook: Hanak H130 #16Thread: Veevus 16/0Body: Peacock ...
It is a simple fly tied respecting the classic English way of tying spiders. I like standard and short shank hooks for this fly, I found more nicer for such flies. Of course is a matter of taste, I do not noticed differences in how fish takes same flies tied with short or ...
Green Slim Catgut Pupae is a super simple and fun to tie fly. I consider that noting is beating the natural material and here you can see that the body is really nice and juicy. Materials: Hook: Demmon G602 #14Thread: Veevus GSP Body thread : yellow Veevus stomach smallBody: Catgut caddis green - S sizeUnder body: tinsel ...
