The Black & Orange

Intermediate Lessons
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The Black & Orange. This fly is a favourite for night fishing for seatrout. Best used as a point fly with a smaller dropper, i.e. a mallard & claret. If you are lucky enough to be at the river during the day when it is running off and there is still some colour in the […]

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The Bob’s Bits

Beginners Lessons
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This fly has been a favourite with the Stillwater fly fishers for several years. Originally it was devized by Bob Worts for fishing Grafham Water when reservoir trout fishing was in its infancy. It was not long before its popularity spread to other stillwaters. The white hackle wing is intended as a ‘sighter’ rather than […]

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The Humungus

Intermediate Lessons
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This lure has been around now for several years and at the moment is having something of a comeback. It has always been a good early season lure for the ‘stockies’. It was one of the first flies to use chain beads for the head. Once you have tied a couple it gets easier and […]

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The Copper Wire Nymph

Beginners Lessons
The Copper Wire Nymph

The Copper Wire Nymph. This is an under-rated fly for rivers, sometimes known as the Copper Nymph, and usually confused with the more popular Copper John Nymph. Not only is it a very easy fly to tie but the basic materials are all readily available. Charles Jardine in his Directory of Fly Dressings advocates a […]

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The Taser Bug

Intermediate Lessons
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This fly first came to my notice in an article in the Total Fly Fishing magazine written by Chris Reeves. The component giving the fly its name is the recycled wire from the Taser gun used by the Metropolitan police. It takes very little practice to produce a lifelike and durable buzzer or nymph. With […]

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( Poem ) Anglers Prayer

Stories & Poems
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The Vibrating Daddy

Intermediate Lessons
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This is not an accepted fly pattern (none of the experts have devised it yet). Over the years the use of vibrating rubber legs has become popular with some anglers. The early flies used flexi floss which did the job but were not as good as the modern materials. Their success on the stillwaters for […]

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( Poem ) A Fly Tyers Dream

Stories & Poems
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