[Video] Vitreus Soft Hackle
This Friday Night Fly Tying Video is brought to us this week by Rich Strolis and features a versatile soft hackle pattern that can also be fished as a nymph in the round and deep simply by adding a bead. Farmington River Yellow Quill Hatch Rich ties and fishes the Vitreus Soft Hackle to match the prolific Yellow Quill hatch on the Farmington River in Connecticut where he guides. I like Rich’s tip of using UTC florescent orange thread since the female Yellow Quill have orange eggs – pretty neat! Another key tip that Rich points out is to minimize [...]
Categories: Fly Tying, Soft Hackles Tags: Farmington River, Fly Tying, fly tying video, Richard Strolis, soft hackles, Yellow Quill
[Video] Tying a Winter Stonefly
Rich Strolis shares how to tie one of his winter flies, a little winter stonefly, in this fly tying video tutorial. Winter Flies or Does It? I guess it depends on who you ask but for me winter does feel like it is moving along pretty quickly, despite the 2-feet of snow we got this week. Never-the-less it is still winter, so let’s talk winter flies. The last few weeks we covered some fun midge patterns that are great winter flies, but let’s not forget our little stonefly friends. They are around too and trout like them, so we like [...]
Categories: Fly Tying, Nymphs Tags: Fly Tying, Richard Strolis, stonefly patterns
[Fly Tying Video] Zonker Fly by Rich Strolis
To help grow our collection of fly tying videos we’ll be featuring a new fly tying video every Friday night. Why Friday night? Well, I figured if you are looking to do some tying this weekend it might be nice to a have a new pattern to try out. Right? It is also a good time for me to write as the kids are in bed and I don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow! Zonker Flies – Big Fish This week’s pattern come to us from Rich Stolis who ties some meaty flies and has [...]
