makes an appearance in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler and remains a standby pattern ... pheasant tail is a deadly sidekick in any double nymph rig. How to Fish This Soft Hackle Fly ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout ... you can simply tie on general-pattern nymph, like a Hair’s Ear or Pheasant Tail, under a strike indicator and cast up and across.

A Mr. Craig, who resided on New Zealand’s North Island, conceived this pattern for casting ... matched pukeko, black pheasant or duck feathers tied back past the tail. To finish the wing ...

or ant pattern, something that floats well. If you’re fishing a smaller dry, you’ll want to have a lighter dropper fly so it doesn't pull the smaller dry fly under – think pheasant tail, RS2 ...

Patterns like a Woolly Bugger, the Adams and a Pheasant Tail are easy to learn to tie ... You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the spring called the Blue-Winged ...

A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably ... Essentially all he did was reduce the existing spider pattern, which had a tail and some other extraneous parts, to its ...

Tie this pattern on a No. 8 to 12 wet-fly hook. For the tail, use golden pheasant tippets. Wrap the body with purple seal substitute dubbing and rib with gold wire (tinsel on larger patterns).