Nymphing for salmon? It is a technique practiced extensively on the Nursling beat of the Test as well as being used widely in low-water conditions in Iceland and the Kola Peninsula. Big beads give...

Nymphing for salmon? It is a technique practiced extensively on the Nursling beat of the Test as well as being used widely in low-water conditions in Iceland and the Kola Peninsula. Big beads give...

A great Sea Trout fly for pushing water and for fishing on or close to the surface. The Muddler Minnow is the sort of fly that can have dramatic effects when other flies are not working. Have one or...

Salmon flies do not have to be complicated to be exceptionally effective and the Golden Killer is without doubt in that category. One of the all-time top flies for summer fishing on the Varzina River...

A very attractive Steelhead pattern and a useful pattern for your fly box.

Steelhead that boil at a dry fly such as a Pinky are definitely ‘takers’.   Rest the water for a couple of minutes and repeat with the dry fly.  If nothing happens bring out a Black Magic...

The Sol Duc, named for the river on the Olympic Peninsular, is one of the original flies from Syd Gasso that started the revival of Spey-style flies and which have been seminally influential ever...