Tying the Disco Leech Tying The Disco Leechby Daryn Smith Recently a FlyTyingForum member posted two flies, wanting to know if anyone knew what the pattern was made with. I have not checked the original post to see if an answer was ever found. I saw a material that is simply called Disco by Bernat. It is a f ... read more Epoxy Head Clouser   Tying the Epoxy-Head Clouser By James A. Capes The Epoxy- Head Clouser has become one of my go-to flies when fishing for northeastern saltwater gamefish such as Striped Bass, Weakfish and Bluefish. It can be tied in varied sizes and colors to match the needs of particular waters, se ... read more The D5 Wooly Bugger by Matt Erny Materials You Will NeedHook: Daiichi 2220 Size 6.Thread: Ultra Thread 140.Tail: One Marabou Blood Quill.Body: FTD (Fly Tiers Dungeon) Hair Web Black Dubbing.Hackle: One Saddle Hackle.Flash: H2O Flash and Hologram H2O Flash from FTD. Step 1: Tie threa ... read more Tying the Pheasant Tail Nymph Tying The Pheasant Tail Nymphby Jim Browning Step 1: Insert the hook into the vice. Step 2: Start your thread about 1-½ eye-widths behind the eye and trim off excess. Step 3: Run thread to just before the bend of the hook. Step 4: Tail: Select four barbs from the pheasant tai ... read more Feather Detox Keeping your materials bug-freeby Alex Cerveniak Bugs.  Many of us live for them. In the off-season, we spend countless hours creating them to fool that monster Brown that reminded us the previous season that the river is his playground, and he’s the bully. During the fishing sea ... read more Foam Stone by Don StracenerOriginator: Paul Whillock Step 1. Cut a strip of 2 mm. craft foam into 5 mm. wide pieces. Strip a pair of Saddle Hackles, leaving the stems. Step 2. Cut a piece of the 5 mm. strip about 2 ½ - 3 inches long. Fold the foam over and trim the corners. Step 3. Put ... read more Humbug by John Ridderbos Materials You Will Need Hook: Mustad 3906 #10.Shellback and thorax: Black Chenille.Body: Yellow ChenilleLegs: White round rubber. Tying Instructions Step 1: Tie in black chenille. Step 2: Tie in yellow chenille. Step 3: Wrap forward yellow chenille to a ... read more Turck Tarantula Tying the by Eric Koons The achieved fame when George Anderson made it his choice for taking first place in the 1990 Jackson Hole One-Fly.  It is a highly versatile pattern as a general attractor or for approximating stoneflies and hoppers.  It may be ... read more Working with Rabbit II: Double Bunny by Will Mullis In Part One of this series I demonstrated how to tie a Bunny Leech; a very easy, yet extremely effective, fly to tie. The Double Bunny maintains that theme. The Double Bunny is a deadly fly for any species that eats smaller f ... read more Tying the Foxee Bastard by Michael Schmidt The Foxee Bastard is one of those patterns that was more or less stumbled upon.  The name reflects the primary ingredient of the fly, Red Fox Tail, and the fact that it is a "bastardization" of a few other patterns, namely a tan Wooly Bugger, Sp ... read more Rabbit Strip Dahlberg Diver How to Tie the Bunny Strip Dahlberg Diverby Alex Cerveniak This fly is probably one of my favorites to fish and tie.  You can fish it on the surface or use it with a sink tip, or full sinking line and fish it sub-surface.  Tie it big, or tie it small.  If you don’t have rabb ... read more Whitlock's Red Fox Squirrel Nymph by John Ridderbos Materials You Will NeedHook:  Mustad 3906B #12Head: Bead to match hook sizeTail:  Squirrel fur from back of squirrelRib: Orange pearl flashabouBody: Squirrel belly furThorax: Fur from back of squirrel skinHackle: (optional) Brown India He ... read more The Case For Soft-Hackle The Case for Soft-HackleEffective fly design using a century old conceptBy James A. Capes Over the past decade I have been noticing a consistent change in the flies that have earned a home in my fly boxes.  The change I've observed is a growth of legs, wings, antennae, or gills. No ... read more Working with Rabbit I: Bunny Leeches by Will Mullis Materials You Will NeedHook: Mustad 9674, Size 4.Weight: Gold Cone Head.Tail and Body: Rabbit Strip.Head: Platte River Special Colored Leech Dubbing. The Bunny Leech is the first in a series of articles I'm writing about flies that inc ... read more 19th Century Salmon Flies by Davie McPhail Davie McPhail has supplied us with a great article this month and is so visually stunning we felt words were not need. This collection of over 70 photos are authentic salmon flies from the 1800's. While these flies are amazingly beautiful it is obvious that ... read more Feather Duster Frog by Jerry Sapp Start by cutting a clump of fibers from a green duster. Grip the fibers and thread in your finger tips and wrap the thread like you were starting a fly. Put a 1/2 inch piece of rubber leg on top of the fibers and tie down.   Half hitch and glu ... read more Sunken Firefly by John Ridderbos Material You Will NeedHook: Mustad 9671 #14.Wincase: Black 1/8th Kreinik Ribbon.Butt:  Fluorescent Yellow Kreinik Braid.Body:  Peacock Herl.Wings: 1/8th Mallard Kreinik Ribbon. Tying Instructions Step 1: Tie in the wingcase/shellback. Step 2: ... read more Woven Hex Nymphby Matt Erny Materials You Will NeedHook: Mustad 87160 Size 6.Thread: 6/0 White and UTC 140 in Dark Brown.Under body: Waxed Dental Tape.Abdomen: Bug wrap in brown and tan (from the flytyersdungeon.com)Gills: Grey Ostrich Herl.Thorax: Brown Dubbing.Legs: Hen Neck feather, brown-and- ... read more Dont Forget The Classics Don't Forget The Classicsby Lance Kekel Last spring I was sitting with a couple friends that I’d not fished with before, preparing to hit the water for the first time together. We were doing the usual stuff you do when you get around someone else’s toys, checking everything out. Eventually ... read more Green Caddis Pupa by Duane Doty Materials You Will Need - Size 12, Wet or Nymph hook. - 8/0 Olive tying thread. - .020 Lead Wire. - 6 lb. yellow Mono line. - Olive Rooster Hackle. - 2 types Turkey Biots. - Small Mono eyes. - Olive Opossum dubbing. - Moose ... read more Inexpensive Wet Flies by Robert Farrand It never ceases to amaze me how much money fly tiers will spend for materials to tie that "hot" new pattern their favorite big-named tier has come up with. While perusing your local fly shop you can easily drop a C-note and only have a small bag ... read more Crocheted Crawdad Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com by Duane Doty This is a pattern that I worked on for a few years before it finally came out the way I like it.  It uses a technique called crocheting or weaving, and I will go through step-by-step how to do this. ... read more All Night Hex Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com by Brent Drew Materials You Will NeedHook: Mustad 9672 Size 6Tailing: Peccary HairAbdomen and Tailing: Deer HairThorax: Dubbing, Estaz, Diamond Braid, Peacock, Ostrich, etc.Wing: Deer Hair in a 28-gauge Brass wire dubbing loop Adsens ... read more Sparrow Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com by John Ridderbos Materials You Will Need Hook: Mustad 9672 #10Tail: Marabou from bottom of a Pheasant rump featherBody: Olive Rabbit dubbingHackle: Pheasant rump feather (I prefer the ones with the iridescent blue silver feather)Head:  Philo ... read more Natural Dubbing Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com by Ralf Maky About a year ago I was trying to obtain a certain look for a sculpin. After several trips to a local Flyshop and trying everything from synthetics such as chenille, wool and hair, it just didn’t duplicate what I had in ... read more Matching Feathers Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com by Ronn Lucas Matching feathers sounds like a simple task. I thought it was at first but was I wrong.  I had tied flies with hackle tip wings and would take one, two or however many I was using for one side from one side of a ... read more The Rising Cost of Fly Tying Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com Rising Cost of Fly Tyingby Bud Guidry Fly tyers in general use an array of materials for this hobby we call fly-tying. One can go to the most extreme in material and on another level take the low road by using easily found, inexpensive materia ... read more Dye Job Discuss this article at FlyTyingForum.com By Michael Schmidt Recently I was looking at tying a pattern that required dun-colored calf body hair to complete an order.  I figured this was not a problem as my local fly shop generally has everything I could ask for and more, and pl ... read more Tying a Dragonfly Playing at My Vise - Tying  a Dragonflyby Graham Owen Do you ever sit at your vise and think about tying something unusual but don’t quite know where to start, and if you do, which direction to proceed?  Perhaps something challenging or out of the ordinary, or for display, be it ... read more Tying The B-52 Tying the B-52by Robert Farrand Step 1: Using a 2xL light wire streamer hook size 10 or 8Start the thread on the hook and make a base wrap of thread (I’m using a yellow or primrose size 6/0 thread) Step 2: Using a small clump of stacked yellow dyed deer body hair, as the extended bo ... read more Spring's Wigglers Anyone who visits a fly shop in Michigan and looks over the selections of Steelhead flies is sure to see many of the spring's Wiggler pattern flies.Most likely you will see a vast array of colors and sizes of this fly, from natural to fluorescent and everything in-between. I really can't tel ... read more Material Preparation by Ronn Lucas Material preparation is possibly the most important and most underrated part of tying the fully dressed fly. When I use the term material prep, I am talking about cleaning/washing feathers and fur, storing the materials in a way that will allow me to find t ... read more Ibis and White  Preface Modern fly tiers love to employ the “latest and greatest” materials and techniques in their patterns. If a material orbits Earth in the Space Shuttle, chances are it becomes fodder for the tier’s bench. If some famous angler starts hackling dry flies with pig bristles, chances ... read more Tying the Tube Perch by Nick Pujic Tube: 1” Plastic tubeThread: Chartreuse UNI 6/0Body:  Orange Krystal Flash strands wound around the tube or orange mylar tubing slid over the tube, tied off at both endsOver wing: Yellow and olive Polar Aire, barred with a markerUnder wing: Orange Polar Aire, ... read more The Canadian Catskills Coffin Fly by Sheldon Seale Having just returned from a trip to the Catskills to meet the famous Green Drake hatch, I thought it appropriate to write about the pattern that served our crew the best. It is a simple form of Coffin Fly (the spinner stage of the Green Drake).If yo ... read more Through The Eyes Of A New Tyer by Samuel Fava It was the middle of August 2005 and I was on vacation with my family in the mountains of New York. One night during a lull I wanted to find something to do and I stumbled upon my brother's long forgotten fly-tying kit. It contained Jack Dennis’ vid ... read more Crayfish Spey Style If you are anything like me tying 'buggers and Clousers can get a little monotonous to say the least. When tying flies becomes more of a chore than a pleasure I think it is extremely important to break the mold and experiment with new patterns. One way of doing this is to browse through patt ... read more Woven Stonefly by Brent Drew Hook- TMC 200 Size 8Thread- Black 3/0 Waxed MonocordTailing- 2 Black Goose BiotsUnderbody- Dental TapeAbdomen- Black and Tan Bug Wrap (flytyersdungeon.com)Wingcases- Black Swiss Straw (Otherwise known as Raffia)Thorax- Black Rabbit dubbing and black Indian Hackle Anten ... read more Realistic legs with Heat Shrink Tube Realistic Legs with Heat Shrink Tube Text & photos: Ulf Hagström I have never been afraid to experiment when it comes to using different materials in fly tying. Sometimes it’s almost been like the experimenting has been more important than the function of the fly, but more often the end ... read more The Jointed Hex Step 1: Tie 3/0 thread to #10 long bend nymph hook. Step 2: Tie on a Pheasant rump feather or a pheasant marabou feather, leaving it long enough to overhang the hook bend by half the length of the hook.Step 3: Tie on a Pheasant under-fluff feather (See Hex gill pic.)Step 4: Add dubbing to ... read more Mickey Finn From what t I have read this traditional streamer was named after the infamous drugged drink ("" is a drink that is meant to render its drinker unconscious).Having stood the test of time this streamer, like most, is designed to imitate a baitfish, and once the beginner learns to ti ... read more The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference Hatches Magazine Subscription Price: $6.95 for each issue The Premiere issue is ready for shipping & the Fall 2008 issue will be available September 1st.