March Brown Dry Fly
Hook: Partridge Patriot Fine Dry (SLD) size 12 or 10 Silk: Primrose 8/0 wispa Tail: Brown micro fibbetts Rib: Brown 3lb maxima Body: A 2:1 mix of March brown superfine and Orange sulphur superfine dubbing. Wing: Lemon wood duck tied as a …
Dark Olive Wet Fly
Hook: Varivas 2400 Wet size 14 or similar wet fly hook Silk: Primrose yellow 8/0 wispa Tail: Dyed Olive cock hackle Body: Stripped quill feather varnished Hackle: Tied in as a beard cock hackle dyed olive as the tail Wing: Slips of …
Duck Dun Patterns
Dave Collins gives his reasons for using this pattern. Whilst I first fly-fished back in the mid-sixties, I didn’t really get back to fly fishing regularly until the late nineties and didn’t tie my first fly until 2001. By then, I had …
Split-Winged Dry Fly
This article and video will explain to you how to tie this pattern with a single feather for the wing. Hook: Partridge Dry fly barbless size 18 but to suit your needs Silk: 14/0 Sheer coloured primrose Tails: Micro fibbetts (Clear) Wing: …
Traditional Tenkara Fly
A Tenkara pattern tied on a traditional blind-eyed hook. Hook: Traditional blind-eyed Tenkara hook size 12 Silk: Uni-thread 8/0 coloured olive Hackle: Furnace hen cape Thorax: Hare’s ear dubbing …
Olive Tenkara Fly
An article explaining how to tie Tenkara flies on eyed hooks, in this case, an Olive Tenkara Fly. Hook: Tiemco BL 209 size 12 Silk: Uni-thread 8/0 coloured olive Hackle: Furnace hen cape Thorax: Hare’s ear dubbing …
Snowshoe Emerger
This is the pattern that I used in the video Late Spring Fishing on the Usk: The Snowshoe Emerger Hook: Varivas T-2000 Terrestrial size 16 Silk: Uni-Nylon 70 denier (white), dyed with a dye pen coloured dark olive. Post: Light Dun Snowshoe …
Fishing Skills – Dry Fly Fishing
Following the success of the previous fishing skills day the Society organised another and from the feedback, we have already had it didn’t disappoint. For those of you that missed the event here is some video footage of what we did. Part 1 …
