Frazer Nymph
This is another pattern that utilises the feathers of the pheasant. This pattern, however, is tied with the centre tail feather of the hen pheasant which is a lot softer than the male counterpart. This fly may be fished on the river or …
Bottle Tube Temple
There are many new types of tube on the market today but one of the more modern types are the bottle tubes. There are a number of different types some of which are made up of brass and others of aluminium. They …
Temple Dog Tube Fly
The Temple Dog Tube fly is one that has come from Norway over recent years. It is a very successful fly in that it has a great deal of movement to it and has the ability to be fished both in slow streams …
Venezuelan Tarpon
Close your eyes and imagine – You wake up at half five and it’s raining hard with strong winds blowing all around. The sea looks very angry. What do you do? That’s right, you head straight back to bed until …
Ally’s Shrimp Salmon Fly
The Ally’s shrimp is one of the U.K’s most popular and successful patterns used to fish for salmon today. Designed by Alastair Gowans, a great and skilful salmon angler the fly has everything you want in a shrimp pattern. It has the …
Return to the River Tweed
I returned to the Tweed, one bright summer day. It was in August this time and not in May. The magic was there and so was the fish and my longing to fulfil a really great wish of catching a salmon, a …
Tweed Magic
An article by Sally Pizii, Salmon and Trout Association, Level II Coach co-ordinator. It was a chance of a lifetime, a day’s fishing for the king of all fish, the salmon, on the Tweed. I had spent the previous day having a conducted tour …
A Trout Fly Fisher’s Dream
Highway to Paradise – Alberta’s Forestry Trunk Road As big as Montana and Wyoming are combined the Canadian province of Alberta can only be classified as huge. A large proportion of its vastness is covered with the remote inaccessible northern boreal forests …
