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An excellent video on tying a damsel fly nymph by Gordon van der Spuy . I like the sparse yet realistic look, not realistic as in an exact i...

Combining movement with a strong silhouette. The ingredients: Deer or elk hair (bleached or natural) Hackle Microfibets Goose biot CDC Step ...

This is a looong video about streamer fishing. If you're into streamer fishing this is a must listen, it's basically a podcast. But ...

  Daiichi 1110 size 14 hook Teal wings Elk hair Golden Badger hackle 

Here are some rare pictures of the Winston shop in San Francisco from the mid 1970's. In 1973 Tom Morgan bought Winston from Doug Merri...

Just listened to the podcast by the guys at  So Fly Fishing about fly fishing in Tasmania with Greg French .  Tasmania is an island under ...

Learn the Gebetsroither casting style, also known as oval or the Belgian cast from this unique video of Hans Gebetsroither giving casting le...

Hackle colors seems so obvious yet there's more to it than just being a color or shade. Jim Slattery  is a big Whiting hackle reseller a...

Quill Gordon. The quintessential Catskill dry fly. This fly started it all. Here's more about the Quill Gordon by Mike Valla's excel...

Sometimes innovations are simply odd.  But maybe they are not that a bad of an idea at all... Well here are two I recently found:  Shimazaki...

Light Hendrickson tied by Elsie Darbee :

Another book from South Africa! Received a gift from Tom Sutcliffe  yesterday. Love Tom's drawing of a rising trout. Thanks Tom!

Just received the new book (the limited edition leather bound) from my South African friend, fly fisherman, actor & author Gordon van de...

  Click here for more on the history of the No Hackle and how to tie them

This book, ' Mostly Bamboo ', about contemporary Japanese bamboo makers by Yuki Bando just arrived before Christmas. Its size is muc...

Tied a few Variants using hackle from a Whiting CDL Pardo, Metz Chocolate dun and a Collins Grizzly capes. All tails are from the CDL (Coq ...