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Backflop Jig streamer fly tying tutorial

Backflop Jig streamer fly tying tutorial

This is my favorite pattern to fish as a streamer on a Euro-nymphing leader. With this method you can dead drift, jig, horizontally jig, or stall the streamer in front...

Backflop Jig streamer fly tying tutorial

This is my favorite pattern to fish as a streamer on a Euro-nymphing leader. With this method you can dead drift, jig, horizontally jig, or stall the streamer in front...

Diabaetis Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

Diabaetis Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

It may be late January, but Baetis season is just around the corner in many locations. Baetis mayflies are a genus of small dark mayflies often referred to as blue...

Diabaetis Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

It may be late January, but Baetis season is just around the corner in many locations. Baetis mayflies are a genus of small dark mayflies often referred to as blue...

Space X Nymph Fly Tying Tutorial

Space X Nymph Fly Tying Tutorial

Tag nymphs have been a core part of my nymph arsenal for almost a decade. After I started using the  Blowtorch, I began experimenting with lots of different styles and...

Space X Nymph Fly Tying Tutorial

Tag nymphs have been a core part of my nymph arsenal for almost a decade. After I started using the  Blowtorch, I began experimenting with lots of different styles and...

Lite Brite Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

Lite Brite Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

The Lite Brite Perdigon shines like the children's toy many of us grew up playing with. Trout tend to like tiny and shiny things so it happens to meet their...

Lite Brite Perdigon Fly Tying Tutorial

The Lite Brite Perdigon shines like the children's toy many of us grew up playing with. Trout tend to like tiny and shiny things so it happens to meet their...

Virginia Midge Fly Tying Tutorial

Virginia Midge Fly Tying Tutorial

A year ago I saw a photo of a midge perdigon that caught my eye on Facebook from a fly tyer named Jarid Church. The fly had the appearance of...

Virginia Midge Fly Tying Tutorial

A year ago I saw a photo of a midge perdigon that caught my eye on Facebook from a fly tyer named Jarid Church. The fly had the appearance of...

Crossover Nymph (Hare's Ear Blowtorch) Fly Tying Tutorial

Crossover Nymph (Hare's Ear Blowtorch) Fly Tyin...

During last year's National Fly Fishing Championship (2018) in Bend, OR, callibaetis mayflies were a prominent hatch we needed to be prepared for at several of the lakes. I had...

Crossover Nymph (Hare's Ear Blowtorch) Fly Tyin...

During last year's National Fly Fishing Championship (2018) in Bend, OR, callibaetis mayflies were a prominent hatch we needed to be prepared for at several of the lakes. I had...