Mallard and Silver
Hooks: Down-eyed wet fly sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 Tail: Golden pheasant tippet Body: Flat silver sinsel Rib: Fine round silver tinsel or wire Hackle: Black hen hackle Wing: Bronze mallard Head: Black tying silk and clear varnish Notes A much-underrated pattern …
Mallard and Claret
Hooks: Down-eyed wet fly sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 Tail: Golden pheasant tippet Body: Claret seal’s fur or substitute Rib: Fine round gold tinsel or wire Hackle: Black hen hackle or dark red game Wing: Bronze mallard Head: Black tying silk and …
Connemara Black
Hooks: Down-eyed wet fly sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 Tail: Golden pheasant crest Body: Black seal’s fur or substitute Rib: Fine round silver tinsel or wire Hackle: Blue jay tied as a beard Wing: Bronze mallard Head: Black tying silk and clear …
Klinkhamer Selection
Detailed below is a selection of Klinkhamer-style patterns tied by Alun Rees for you to try. This is a great pattern for both trout and grayling alike. To see the tying process go to the Klinkhamer Tying Video. All you need to …
F Fly Selection
All the F Fly patterns below have been tied and photographed by Alun Rees. There are plenty of them for you to play with. The F Fly is one of the simplest patterns to tie and is very successful for both grayling and …
Polish Woven Nymph
This is a very good heavy nymph pattern which is a generic pattern imitating all manner of aquatic nymphs and caddis larva. It may be fished in the Czech nymph style or by more traditional upstream nymph or downstream nymph techniques. A …
The Shuttle or Parallel Weave
This article is not about a specific pattern but it is all about a versatile body weave which can be used to form two-tone bodies very quickly(once you have mastered the technique and practised it lots) which still have a segmented appearance. I …
Know Your Game Fish
An article by Alan Parfitt. They say you should never apologise but as a philosophical anarchist, I have the licence to do whatever I like. With that in mind, I will start by explaining that although I am trained in “Scientific” things …
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 …
