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When fishing the summer months you want to have a collection of PMD fly patterns in your box from nymphs, dries, emergers, or cripples.  This pattern for the emerger is deadly effective, when fished all by itself on the swing, or drifted trailing behind a dry fly pattern through a riffle or to rising fish.  We classify this as one of our Guide Series Flies because it is extremely effective, durable, and quick to tie.  These kinds of flies are a must have in your box.  We love the segmented look a biot gives the fly, for a realistic feel...

The SLS Emerger is an effective Mayfly Emerger, from Blue Ribbon Flies in West Yellowstone. We have taken the liberty of tying this to match the BWO with great success. The use of the Synthetic Body Quill makes this a very easy and elegant pattern to tie. If you got any value out of this video we would really appreciate it if you would make sure to like the video, leave a comment, and follow our page. This helps FB know that our information is important and valued. Thank you very much and tight lines.  This pattern fishes extremely well...

The Guides Choice Hares Ear Soft Hackle has been around for a long time.  It's survived the test of time because it just flat out catches fish.  This variation of this pattern uses some materials substitutes that we believe are easier to tie with, and give you a wider variety of color choices to tie this pattern.  With this one we went with an olive color, with a hot spot head.  This pattern is deadly fished on the swing, or dead drifted because the soft hackle gives this pattern life.  Tie them up in a variety of colors and sizes,...

With this pattern we look to the wire wrapping technique inspired by Barry Ord Clark.  This technique allows you to wrap your wire body without losing the symmetrical form of the hook, and body of your fly.  We believe it also simplifies the process of tying, and adds to the aesthetics of this fly.  although the aesthetics of how it looks may not impact how effectively they bring fish to the net, as a tier I try to tie flies that also look good.  This pattern is simple in only using a couple of materials, making it a quick tie. ...

One thing you'll notice if you follow us on Social Media is our fascination with Soft Hackles and turning regular traditional nymph patterns into Soft Hackle Nymphs.  Is there a reason behind us doing this? To us yes absolutely there is.  We do not have any scientific data to make an absolute claim to our belief that they are more effective tied as a Soft Hackle, but for us our confidence rises and more fish come to net.  Our belief is the pulsating action the soft hackle feathers provide give added life to the fly, and trigger a feeding instinct...