This is a favorite of ours to tie and fish. We enjoy it so much because it is such a visually stunning pattern, quick to tie, and deadly effective. We love the darker colors in the wintertime combined with a...
Midges are an insect that hatches year round, but more importantly a vital food source during the colder months while there is less abundance of food sources for fish to choose from. Due to the small sizes of these bugs...
Fish feed the majority of the time subsurface underneath the water column. This means that having a variety of flies tied to get into the zone quickly is important. This pattern does just that, and more. We call this Guides...
When Brandon Moon at Moonlit Fly Fishing asked me if I wanted to beta test out one of his newly developed fiberglass, the Nirvana PhoenixGLASS. “Absolutely!”, I said. “I’m a sucker for glass”. Brandon asked me to “provide an honest opinion...
Hoppers in the summertime can be so much fun to fish. The aggressive eats on the top are enough to make a grown man smile, and this one here giggle like a kid again. As I began my tying experience...
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,...
If you have never fished an ant pattern before, than you have been missing out. Ants are easily one of the most readily accessible food sources for fish with the pure abundance of them found along streams, rivers, and lakes...
Although we love tying and fishing all of our nymphs as soft hackles we know there are plenty of other great patterns we like to pull out of our box. This pattern is definitely one of them. Stonefly nymphs are...
The Salvation Ant is a sunken ant pattern tied to fish below the surface. Ants are one of the most prolific food sources during the warmer months with an over abundance of them scattered along any stream, river bed, in...
