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These flies get their name from the Tutu, the short skirt worn by female ballet dancers

Getting a decent macro image of a dry fly sitting on water is one of the hardest shots to pull off

I like rubber legs on dry flies. Their suggestion of something edible is the fish equivalent of ringing a dinner gong.

This is a dual purpose stonefly pattern tied on a jig hook. It can act both as a dry fly and an indicator

The Partridge Parachute Emerger – or PPE for short – is a soft hackle dry fly, all limp and spindly

Fran Betters was a creative tyer and originated several patterns that have become quite famous. Mike Hogue covers four of them in this article.

Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.

Russian Dmitri Tseliaritski's Narova foam dry fly is an easy and robust pattern template for terrestrials, beetles in particular

Tup's Indispensable is a fly originated by R.S. Austin in 1890, utilizing a quite exotic material as dubbing.

CDC wings are good looking and makes a dry fly a great floater. Here's a few tips on getting them perfect.

The Humpy might be the greatest surface fly ever devised, but it also has a reputation of being difficult to tie. Learn to tame it here.

A story about a group buying some of the Ernie Schwiebert fly collection.

The video starts out nicely sketching the contrast between work and fishing as many of us recognize it. Dennis the businessman getting up in the darkness at 6:30 and going to work, struggling to find space in the boot for his briefcase because of the fishing tackle stuffed in there. A gear mess on the back seat and flies on the dashboard. The mention of Norway in his boss' presentation ringing as Dennis dozes off and dreams of salmon fishing. He has to go "for some fresh air" and then scoots off to Norway where he meets up with his friends Henrik and Roar.

When Danish angler Jesper Fohrmann was a child, he had the book The Atlantic Salmon by Lee Wulff on the shelf next to Batman and Donald Duck. Ever since then he dreamed of one day visiting the rivers that Lee Wulff fished.

South African summer is here and the fish are rising. And the X-factor fly makes them even keener to go for the surface fly

The name of this renowned fly is Europea 12 - with an a in the end - oftentimes just called E-12. It's a true European classic, a great caddis imitation and even easy to tie.

Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author of this article - have made variations. The article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.

I have chosen to review these three DVD's in one review, mostly because they are part of a series and very consistent in concept and production. There's also a fourth in the series, which I don't have.
They are not identical, mind you! Only in the way that they feature the same people and the same tone-of-voice and style. They deal with each their subject have each their place and justification. You can choose one or two, but I'd certainly recommend getting them all since they are all highly educational and supplement each other very nicely.

This is a little and all too unknown fishing video gem. Swedish anglers Johan Klingberg and Ulf Börjesson take us on a charming row of fishing trips iun the lush southern Swedish landscapes hunting mayfly hatches... and trout!

All of a sudden, the new season or a spontaneous fly fishing trip with your best buddy is imminent. At that stage, you may think about ordering flies through an online shop.
Selling flies through the Internet is a growing business. There is a vast number of private and commercial suppliers of flies and a large range of prices and qualities.

The Green Machine is a classic salmon fly from the Eastern part of Canada. It's fished as a wet fly in spite of being tied with deer hair and a hackle like a bomber. This article shows you step by step how to tie it and shows an alternative and easier way to create the green body.

Hey - why not?

The flies represented vary from classics tied by recognized experts to contemporary patterns, terrestrials, and extra-terrestrials.

My first thought was probably the same as yours - what is "paraloop"? Paraloop is part technique, part style. Take a piece of a parachute, a bit of a thorax dun, and some thoughts of a comparadun, mix, and you'll arrive at a paraloop.

Comparaduns are one of the most versatile mayfly patterns in existence representing a low-riding mayfly to near perfection. However, many tiers shy this simple pattern due to the perceived complexity of tying the deer hair wings. Learn to master the technique with GFF partner Steve Schweitzer.

Just some flies that passed by the table and lens of GFF partner Martin Joergensen. No strings attached, no patterns, just nice to look at.

Now is the time of year to experiment with new materials. If you haven't had the pleasure of using groundhog/woodchuck, I recommend you give it a try.

The fly that did the Limbata as told by Jim Hauer

Salmon fly tyer Poul Jorgensen.

Later my friend and I ran into problems on our favorite stream, when the tiny Caënis dayflies hatched. The trout sipped the fresh emerged flies all over the water - but they rejected all the flies we offered. Then we found a note in a magazine saying, that the fly with the peculiar name - the 'Grey Duster' - should be the right medicine, if it was tied with a parachute hackle.

The headline contains some truth in the sense: When trout/graylings eat tiny surface-food, they only nead to open their mouth to a narrow slot and sip the fly in. If one presents them with a fly with a broad hackle - then they can’t suck it in through their narrow mouth.

The small dipterae - Simulium sp. - has always been a problem - they are tiny and shows up in fantastic numbers. Why should a trout prefer our imitations when there are so many all over the water?

A.K. should be fairly well known. The term 'production fly tyer' is very suitable for him. He counts his flies in hundreds of dozens and has before demonstrated his ability to write books about this kind of tying.
In this book he reveals the contents of his own fly boxes. They contain a lot of brown trout flies - no salt water patterns, no poppers, no bass flies. There are a few hoppers and ants, but apart from that it's mayflies, stoneflies a caddises.

Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.

When you take into consideration the size and volume of this book: large format and app. 250 pages, and the fact that it 'only' deals with 20 flies, it should be obvious that each fly is described in minute details. And it sure is.

Seriously. This is a book that I like just to touch. The print renders the photos in an excellent quality, and leaves the reader with a feeling that the flies are as textured, translucent and subtle as they actually are.