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2023
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Springtail

The Springtail has a soft and bendy body made from a boiled coil of colorful, elastic jewelry string

Ginger Midge

Easy to tie. Not fancy. But it works! We love the ginger colored ultra wire. This color looks great for ribbing midge and Baetis patterns. This is essentially a mercury midge with ginger wire.

Big Eelie

This multi-feather flatwing pattern is an absolute killer pattern bass and other saltwater preadatores feeding on larger sandeels.

Orange Miller

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Orange Miller.

Sea trout spawning

Sea trout spawning in a tiny Danish stream.

Salmon

Two perfect days og salmon fishing

Grey & White Easy Cast Pike Fly

There are opposing forces at play when fishing for pike with a fly rod.

Midge-May Be

A midge to Baetis crossover pattern with trident tails like seen on Baetis mayflies but tied with a downwing like a midge.

I stopped counting

For basically all the almost 30 years of its existence, I have been following the traffic patterns on GFF. I stopped about a year ago, and here is why.

Minimal Dace

Chris Stewart’s Blacknose Dace Streamer

Micro Collie Dog

Here we will be tying a micro version of the fly Collie Dog.

Black Pennell

In this video I'll tie the fly Black Pennell. In 1886, its author, released the first fly tying hooks with an eye facing downwards. That makes the design of these hooks about 140 years old!

Micro Frances Plug

Here we will be tying a Micro version of one of the most famous salmon pattern of all times, Frances. Originally made and styled another fly called Black Eyed Prawn by Peter Dean in the UK.

Walleye Special Leech

Here we will be tying the Walleye Special Leech. As a matter of fact, this fly is not relation the no people personally.

Butterfly Pedersen

Here we will be tying the Butterfly Pedersen by mr. Jón Sigurðsson. The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing and was designed in 2009 by mr. Sigurðsson.

Video Tour of my Fly Tying Desk

Whenever I visit the home of a fly tyer, I can't help but snoop around their desk to see how they have everything arranged, which tools they use, and their materials (and I think I'm not alone).

Grey Goose Olive Nymph

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Gingernesen

This Mörrum ginger colored tubefly is swedish flytyer and flyfisher Erik Hellquist’s favourite colour for the River Mörrum, and the fly that he actually caught one of his first salmon on many years

Elk Hair Caddis - EHC

Caddis are a very important food-item for trout and grayling, and there are in fact many more species of caddis than there are mayflies.

Snowshoe Comparadun

How to control two materials without a need to be an octopus.

Pink Beauty

Step by Step showing you how to tie the Carrie Stevens streamer the Pink Beauty.

One of my Top Caddis Patterns

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Black Gnat (midge soft hackle)

This is Jim Leisenring’s Black Gnat. It is one of his top 12 patterns. Recipe as listed in his book “The Art of the Wetfly” 1941 with Pete Hidy.

Stickleback Fly

Another week and another tutorial. I’m on a roll atm and was having fun last night with my new saddle of hen CDL feathers.

UV Watson's Fancy pupa

Here we will be tying the fly Watson's Fancy in a large pupa version. But originally Watson's Fancy is a classic wet fly pattern from Scotland by mr. Donald Watson.

Stickleback's and brown trout parr in Veiðivötn

Just a little underwater footage from Litlisjór in the Veiðivötn region. Trying out my new GoPro cameras under water and got these shots from both sticklebacks and brown trout parr.

Simple Foam Midge

Here we will be tying a fly by myself that I made few years back. The idea with this fly is to let is fish right under the surface film of the water. Just like the idea with Emergers.

Dynamite Harry

"Dynamit Harry" is the name of a character in a classic Danish comedy – explosive, very entertaining and named Harry.

Yorkshire Greenwell

Flytying a traditional trout fly and Yorkshire's version of the famous Greenwell Glory. Featuring a wing of paired vertical Woodcock secondary slips.

Dark Spanish Needle

Fly tying the Dark Spanish Needle north country spider pattern. With a brief explanation of the fly pattern's history involving many historic private north country fishing manuscripts.

Stone Midge

Fltying the traditional north country spider pattern the Stone Midge.

Welshman's Button

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Waterhen Dun

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Mercury Black Beauty

Here we will be tying the fly Mercury Black Beauty by Pat Dorsey. The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing when tied in small hook sizes like #16-24.

Loon on a nest

“The greatest gift you can give to another fisherman is to put a good fish back.” -- Lee Wulff

Blóðormur Slim

Here we will be tying the fly Blóðormur Slim (Slim Bloodworm). The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing and catches both brown trout and arctic char.

Peacock Original

Here we will be tying the original version of the Peacock by mr. Kolbeinn Grímsson. This video is made after a request from someone who wanted to see the Peacock tied exactly like the author did.

Peccary Emerger

Here we will be tying a Peccary Emerger by myself. The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing specially when the fish is eating emerging nymphs right under the surface.

Thunder Creek Minnow

The Thunder Creek Minnow, also known as the Thunder Creek Silver Shiner, is pattern by a commercial fly tyer mr. Keith Fulsher. The fly is fairly known in the world of fly fishing and fly tying.

Green Weenie

Green Weenie is a classic attractor pattern that's just plain old and catches fish. Some like to call it an inch worm, large uncased caddis, extended body caddis or just whatever you like.

Taco Emerger

The Taco Emerger was inspired by the split case patterns which are popular in the US

#32 Wonderbody Parachute

Notes for a #32 Wonderbody Parachute tied by Dutch fly tier Henk Verhaar

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Easy Cast Pike Fly

There are opposing forces at play when fishing for pike with a fly rod.

Bloody Butcher

Here we will be tying the fly Bloody Butcher by mr. Moon. The fly is a great option for both stream and lake fishing. The fly catches both brown trout, arctic char and sea run trout.

Black Gnat

Here we will be tying the famous wet fly Black Gnat (BG).

Sigga Svört

Here we will be tying the fly Sigga Svört. That would be translated as Siggi's Black, but the pattern is named after Jóns nephew Sigurður H. Rúnarsson.

Foam Ant

Here we will be tying a Foam Ant by myself. Many people have tied the same or similar pattern. The Foam Ant is a great option for fishing in both streams, rivers and lakes.

Sillikix

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

Fuzzy Shrimp

This simple shrimp pattern can be tied in any size or weight to suit any flats species in any part of the world, there really isn't much more to say. Tie some!

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