Davie Mcphail ties a great nymph pattern, the Olive Quilled Cruncher. This pattern makes use of Dyed Peacock Quill for a great looking segmented body.

My relationship with stripers and squid has been an almost life long affair. I remember summer nights as a kid, jigging for squid under pier lights and trying to “stink ink” my fishing partners. As we lifted up the pale white specters that clung to our jigs, they transformed into erupting black fountains of slimy […]

So, we’ve taken a few weeks off in our “Show us your Bench” series. But with winter lurking, there are tiers all over the northern hemisphere getting back into tying mode. Here is some inspiration. R. Bruce Bolster from Clandeboye, Manitoba writes “We lived for several years in a log house with no room for […]

If you like wet flies like I do, you will of course have read the ‘fly fishing bible’, Ray Berman’s masterpiece, Trout. The book is a timeless classic, drenched in the lore and nostalgia of fly fishing. I’m 34 and tied my first wet fly in 2008. I never saw these things for sale in […]

“This fly was inspired by a popular fashion house which found itself lent to the prole drift. I wanted to take something so typically blue-blood, twist it 180°… and create something modern yet reminiscent of a victorian garish past. The Chav salmon fly is a suggestion of what the british hierarchy had become; a thing […]