It’s ‘FRY TIME’ at most lakes at the moment and this frenzy will continue and progress right into the winter months when most anglers pack up their fishing tackle or don their neopreans and hit the rivers and grayling. This fly is shown in this months Total Flyfisher magazine, expertly tied by Steve Cullen. Steve also shows how to fish this fly to it’s full … Continue reading As seen in this months Total Flyfisher
Large specimen trout want a mouthful, they don’t tend to want to eat small amounts of food, they prefer a good mouthful. This time of year is ‘fry time’ and anglers get awful excited about what can only be called a feeding frenzy. Trout, and other fish, close in and attack fry which are shoals of juvenile fish. Trout tend to ‘smash into a shoal of fry … Continue reading Floating Fry Fly Tying Video
Finding those perfect products that could save you hours at the tying bench don’t come along that often… With the winter rapidly closing in anglers are now looking towards their tying tables to replenish stocks of their favourite flies. Most of my winter is spent throwing a shooting head from the banks of Farmoor or up to my ‘nicky nacky noos’ in ice cold river waters which … Continue reading Things that makes you go ‘ahhh’
The cruncher is one of my favourite nymphs, it works wherever it’s used and is an ideal middle dropper fly between two lures. Fish love them on the hang, on the drop or through the retrieve, just find the level. It’s a fly which takes pride in my nymph box and has many variations. One of my ‘all time favourites’ is the standard cruncher, no … Continue reading Cruncher fly tying video
The hopper is probably one of the most used dry flies out there, other than a shuttlecock buzzer of course. I usually use this fly on the point of a dry fly setup, simply because I don’t like fishing culls; they seem to spin up my leader and I tend to spend more time untangling leaders than fishing. My favourite pattern is the one featured … Continue reading Tying the Black Hopper
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