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Fly tying: Rubber legs simplified
I learned the trick that Tim Flagler demonstrates in the video below a while back, and it's made my flies that incorporate rubber legs much easier to tie. Video of Tying in Rubber Leg MaterialTying rubber legs need not be the onerous task I once thought it was. Rather, it's a simple process I follow…
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Fly tying: Loon Live streams tonight
Matt Callies ties the Balanced Bugger and the Perdigon Variation nymph live tonight at 9 p.m. ET. Fly tying, for many fly fishers, is an economic necessity. Dropping $50 at the fly shop on tying materials can literally save you hundreds of dollars—if, that is, you factor in the time spent at the vise as…
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Fly tying: Attaching dumbbell eyes
For fly tiers who like big streamers and saltwater patterns (count me in this group—the bigger the pattern, the easier to tie, in my opinion), dumbbell eyes can present a challenge, mostly because, no matter how many times we "figure-eight" the tying thread around the eyes and the hook shank, the eyes, with enough pressure,…
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Fly tying: JC’s Electric Steelie Stone
Being a western angler, I'm not terribly familiar with the steelhead flies used in Great Lakes tributaries. Most western steelhead patterns are purple or pink or some color variation that just looks loud and gawdy. Higher up in the steelhead drainages, like here in Idaho, it's easier to get awa y from the "eggy" and…
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Fly tying: Less Mess Morrish Mouse
I haven’t spent a ton of time fishing mice. Other than a few nights looking for big browns — bushwhacking through the north woods with a underpowered headlamp just to lose most of my flies to unseen trees — my experience is pretty much limited to chucking these bugs into lily pads for largemouth. I’ve…
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Fly tying: Craft-fur Clouser
I love fishing Clousers. I hate tying with bucktail. I can never seem to get the bucktail material to lie flat and stay flat. Most of my Clousers tied with yellow and white bucktail have splayed tails and likely swim like nothing a fish predator has ever seen. Video of Craft Fur ClouserThanks to Tim…
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Fly tying: The Klinkhamer
'Tis the season for emerging insects on America's great trout rivers. Here in Idaho, it's full-on Blue-winged Olive season (in an infuriating size 20!). While traditional dun patterns can work well, I've found that trout are often keyed in on emerging BWOs well into the full hatch. And a BWO tied "Klinkhamer" style perfectly mimics…
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