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Fly tying

When I opened the book for the first time, I went wow! I had the same reaction when I opened the book “The Tube Fly” by Ken Sawada and said to myself “Fly tying really makes beautiful books!”
When I ...

Steel Pin Shrimp

A scud pattern with 26 individual legs is no task if you make this small, ingenious tool out of wire.

Tom’s Leather Fly Reel Cases

About three years ago I had the idea to make a leather fly reel case for two of my homemade fly reels, also encouraged by my wife who makes beautiful bags. These are usually made of fabric or a combin...

How to tie a hook on a tube fly

Those of us who have fished tube flies for ages have no problem understanding the principle, but if you're new to tubes, the simple task of attaching a hook to a tube fly might seem hard to figure out.

Green brush

A grren multi-hackle fly ine the Omoe Brush style

Steel Shrimp

In a previous article I described how I use metal bead chain to add weight and internal structure to my Chain Worm pattern. The Steel Shrimp uses the same principle, the metal beads forming a skelet...

See the easy pattern here

Mean Green Mother from Outer Space

I'm not particularly fond of these brightly colored shrimp, but they are fun to tie and some look utterly funky. My darling wife had a lot of leftover green yarn from a knitting project, and I now have scraps for hundreds of bright, green flies. Combined with green legs and bright orange eyes from Easy Shrimp Eyes and tied on an Ahrex Hooks shrimp hook I created this Mean Green Mother from Outer Space. I probably wouldn't fish it myself, but that doesn't make it less fun to tie.

GFF turns 30!

30 years ... thirty years, like three decades. That’s how old this site is, and that’s actually quite a feat.

Hair stackers

A bit of stacker education and stacker philosophy is due, so here it is: quite a lot of information about hair stackers

Autumn Fly...ish

A fly that sat in my vise for a while. Very much like Danish Allan Overgaard's Autumn Fly, but with slightly different materials. A one off, tied ad lib.