The cicadas are coming! By now, you’ve surely heard that this year, the Brood X cicadas will be hatching across the East and parts of the Midwest. Fly fishers are salivating at the prospect of big trout coming to the surface to . . .
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Video: The Fly-Tying Tools You Really Need
If you’re going to be a fly tier, you’re going to need some tools, but which ones? Here, Tim explains which tools he deems absolutely essential, from a selection of scissors to whip-finishers, to a caddy to hold everything in place. . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie a Simple Non-slip Loop Knot
Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions sometimes takes a little break from his fly-tying videos to focus on knot demonstrations. (He has also done the 3-in-1 Uni Knot.) Here, he shows you how . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie a Quill Gordon Dry Fly
The Catskills dry fly is considered the ultimate fly-tying challenge (unless you’re into full-dress salmon flies). Getting the proportions correct is the key, and you need the finest materials . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Bond Layers of Craft Foam
Many dry-fly imitations of terrestrials and stoneflies feature foam bodies created by stacking different color foam. Here. Tim demonstrates his method for creating these multi-layer . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the SBR Hendrickson Nymph
In this week’s great video from Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, he shows you how to tie a cool Hendrickson-nymph pattern that imitates the naturals in his wester-New Jersey streams. (SBR . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Control Difficult Materials with the Anchor-and-Twist Dubbing Method
Some dubbing materials don’t want to stay on the thread, or they get unruly and unmanageable when you wrap the dubbing noodle on the hook shank. It’s frustrating to end up with a shapeless blob, when . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Furled Chimarra Caddis Larva
The Chimarra caddisfly, also known as the little black sedge, is prevalent throughout the eastern and Midwestern United States, hatching in the spring. In the months leading up to the hatch, fishing a bright yellow or orange . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Create Balanced Subsurface Flies
Last week, Tim showed how most subsurface patterns drift perpendicular to the streambottom because of the way weight is distributed on the hook. This week, he demonstrates several ways you can add weight out in front of . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Dark Hendrickson Wet Fly
The Dark Hendrickson Wet is a great all-around pattern for springtime fishing, or at any time that there are dark mayflies available to trout. The pattern is production fished on a traditional wet-fly swing, dead-drifted, or . . .
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