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How To Tie the Red Holo & UV Diawl BACH

This is a great little nymph that works very well from May to September.

How To Tie the Nemesis

Cracking stillwater lure/ nymph hybrid..

How To Create A Dropper

A three-turn water knot, easy and quick way of creating droppers.

How To Attach A Fly To Tippet

A simple Blood Knot an easy way of attaching the fly to your tippet…

How To Tie the DOUBLE MAGGOT

Yes, it’s obscene, BUT it serves a purpose.

With most grayling rivers being bait fished and most with maggots, following a bait fisher hampers your catch rate, so copy what they are fishing with, simple!

How To Tie The Krystal Flash Shipman

As they fish seem to be moving onto pinfry, this little dry fly can work very well.

It can be fished the whole year through really once the trout are up, but just now it excels!

How To Tie The Popperfry

I have used this for years and it rarely let’s me down…

Use it to catch pinfry feeders in June to sticklebacks feeders in September and October…

I’d advise using glue after securing the foam and the eyes for a more durable fly..

Cul De Canon

An exceptional dry fly for river anglers, one that will mimic all manner of upwinged flies.

Bibio (Heather Fly)

This is my take on the Heather Fly, a meaty terrestrial that can be found on most upland waters.

Fish it as you would with other dries, but focus your attention around the water’s edges!

Sunburst Booby (chicken fish version)

One of my favourites to fish on it’s own with a SWEEP fly line, best conditions seem to be in flat calms where you have total line control, strange I know, but true..

Hang Markers Made Easy!

A very simple way of creating highly visible Hang Markers for your fly lines so that you can gauge where your flies are fishing in the water so that you can catch more trout!

How To Tie Steve Cullen’s Pinfry

An easy fly to tie and it catches loads of fish!!

How to fish for pinfry feeding trout…https://flyfishguidecouk.wordpress.com/?p=555&preview=true

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Candy Cat Booby

My variation of the Candy Booby, the Candy Cat.

I feel that this fly can often excel over the original for the most part of the fishing year. The inclusion of the green just adds another dimension, this lime green is so good for stocked rainbows and indeed brown trout, try it, I’m sure that you won’t be disappointed!

Candy Blob

This Candy Blob, brought about and popularised by well known reservoir angler Iain Barr, has seen a real uptake in users over the last couple of year.

It’s a good pattern to try when the brighter Blobs switch off!

Nige’s Cat

A Cat’s Whisker variant from my mate Nigel Burns.
This fly will work when most Blobs etc are failing, it changes colour when it’s in the water, you’ll need to take my word for it though.

CDC Shuttlecock

This fly is designed for Rutland Water but will work its magic on most waters that have vast weedbeds.
The original fly – and how to dress it – was shown to me by Dave Docherty, AKA Curly, a man that lived on the water for years and was thought of as the main man on that amazing venue.