Eggstasy isn’t just for egg patterns anymore. In this video, I’m breaking down a new way to tie a realistic, buggy stonefly using the material. It adds incredible movement in the water, and once you ...
Is the Woolly Bugger still one of the best flies in fly fishing? Every year, fly anglers get excited about new flies, new ...
Over the years, foam has become a nearly indispensable fly tying material, with different offerings appearing on the market at a dizzying rate. If you can dream up something made of foam, it most ...
A good strategy for finding ambush predators like salmon and Sea-run Cutthroat trout is to seek out places where fast currents carry food items.
Spencer sits down with Hyrum Weaver for the next installment of the Everyday Angler series, a conversation about what actually separates an angler who catches a few fish from one who knows what ...
This week’s lineup runs two streamers alongside two small trout patterns. We open with the Gray Squirrel Zonker Streamer from Lucian Vasies, a late-summer and autumn favorite of his for big trout, ...
Peacock herl catches fish, and the Zug Bug is mostly peacock herl. That iridescent green-bronze body does the heavy lifting – it reads as a caddis larva, a mayfly nymph, or a small dragonfly nymph ...
Jerry Siem is the chief rod designer at Sage, arguably the biggest domestic manufacturer of high-end fly rods. Jerry’s encyclopedic knowledge of rodbuilding dates from the early days of Fenwick, ...
“Really nothing new to see here, just taking a pretty standard Zebra Midge and tying it Perdigon style, so it’s heavy, small and sinks like a stone. For a hook, I’m going to use a Lightning Strike JF2 ...
Sex Dungeons. Butt Monkeys. Stacked Blondes. Barely Legals. Bodacious names aside, Kelly Galloup’s flies have changed the face (and attitude) of modern fly fishing. This week I caught up with Kelly as ...
Tier and videographer Tim Flagler: “The Black Bear Green Butt is an extremely effective salmon fly that’s been around for generations. In this video, I’m going to tie one using less than traditional ...