Videos

This week's Tying Tuesday features one of my all-time favorite flies, a new smallmouth pattern that'll work well for trout, and some tips on picking and sizing dry-fly hackle. With spring creeping ever closer, I reckon most of us could use the refresher on the Klinkhåmer, and picking and sizing hackle. Davie McPhail's videos—and flies—are some of the...

There are lots of folks making great fly-fishing videos—the Fly Fishing Film Tour and International Fly Fishing Film Festival showcase some of the best—but few are making true films like Rolf Nylinder. As a young Swedish snowboarder, skateboarder, and angler, Rolf burst onto the scene in 2011, making videos under the name Frontside Fly, and his blend of...

This week's Tying Tuesday is a nymph-focused affair. While the first dry-fly hatches of the year aren't too far off, nymphing will still be the name of the game for the next few months. These patterns should do some work as the fish warm up and the bugs start moving again. Up first is the Idaho Stank Perdigon from Fly Fish Food. That's an interesting fly...

This week's Tying Tuesday features yet another Sparkle Dun, but this one is a "Neversink" edition, which I think could come in handy. You'll also learn to tie a new nymph from Slovakia, and get a primer on fly tying thread. The Sparkle Dun is probably my favorite fly, ever. This thing flat-out produces when trout are at their pickiest during mayfly hatches...

This week's Tying Tuesday has a bit of variety to it. We start off with a standard trout fly before moving on to a simple foam beetle that'll work for trout or bass. Then, we finish with a fun variant on the classic Deceiver. Getting us started this week is a tutorial on the Yong Special from AvidMax. This is the glass-bead variant of a popular pattern...

This week's Tying Tuesday focuses on two smaller mayfly patterns (although one can be tied in larger sizes) and ends with a great how-to video about using wire in your flies. I know it's still January, but it feels good to be tying mayflies and dreaming of the first hatches, even if they don't start for another few months. Our first fly this week is a...

I'm definitely dreaming of warmer weather, and in this week's Tying Tuesday you'll be treated to a nice little mayfly pattern, perfect for tossing during early spring hatches. Then, you'll learn about a midge (which, admittedly, you could use right now), and that's followed up by an interesting shrimp pattern for anyone looking to chase permit and bonefish...

Tying Tuesday is back and ready for some more trout-focused goodness! A theme throughout the flies I selected for this week's post is the confidence anglers have in them. Tim Cammisa swears by the X-Caddis, the folks at Mainely Flies love the Squiggle, and Higa's SOS is the definition of a confidence fly. It's an interesting concept to think about, in that...

The first Tying Tuesday of 2025 features a few lessons on critical tying skills, along with a time-tested pattern and an interesting Euro nymph. It's been too cold to fish in my neck of the woods, and I know I'll be spinning up a few of these flies this week while I wait for warmer weather. The first pattern this week is from Davie McPhail, one of the most...

This week's Tying Tuesday is trout focused, but this is also the time of year that trout fishing really slows down, and many of us are spending hours at the vise in preparation for next season. You'll find a great stonefly dry in this week's collection of tutorials, along with a hex pattern, and a sculpin that I think looks deadly. Yes, it's winter, but...