Fly Tying Help & Tips

Fly Tying World · On the water Read the drift. Find the feeding depth. A tiny pause can be the only sign that a trout has taken your nymph. Learn to set up an indicator rig, control its drift and make useful adjustments on rivers and stillwaters. Strike indicator fishing makes an underwater presentation easier to follow. It is useful when trout are feeding below the surface and a floating fly gives you little information about their activity. On a river, the indicator helps you track …

The thread is one of the smallest things on a fly tying bench, but it affects almost every part of the finished fly. Choose one that is too bulky and a neat dry-fly head becomes difficult to finish. Use a thread that is too fine for the materials and tension required, and you may spend more time repairing broken wraps than tying. If you've seen spools labelled 3/0, 6/0, 8/0, 12/0 or 140 denier and wondered which one to buy, the first thing to understand is that these labels do not form one unive …

What Are the Most Productive Trout Patterns to Tie for UK Waters? If you fish for trout in the UK, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of fly patterns out there. Hundreds of names, endless variations, and fly boxes stuffed with things that rarely see the water. The good news?You don’t need a thousand patterns to catch fish. In fact, if you focus on a small core of proven, high-confidence flies, you’ll cover rivers, stillwaters, stocked fisheries and wild fis …