Black Hills Fly Fishing Report March 27th 2025
Black Hills Fly Fishing Report March 27th Spring is officially here! With warmer temperatures this week, we are noticing more dry fly action out on the water. Flows are still...
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Black Hills Fly Fishing Report March 27th 2025
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Hans' Hopper Fly Tying Video
Hans' Hopper Fly Tying Video There are many great hopper patterns out there. This pattern combines bits and pieces of several hopper patterns, with a couple of unique twists. As...
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Chernobyl Ant Fly Tying Video
Chernobyl Ant Fly Tying Video This is a great all around summer attractor or hopper imitation. This color scheme has been a great all purpose color for me. The Chernobyl...
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Engle's Sunken Trico Fly Tying Video
Engle's Sunken Trico Fly Engle's Sunken Trico Fly is is an excellent and unique pattern. The pattern is featured in Ed Engle's book Tying Small Flies. Ed developed this fly...
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CDC Emerging Mayfly Nymph Fly Tying Video
CDC Emerging Mayfly Nymph This has been a very successful pattern for imitating emerging late summer yellow mayflies, especially pale evening duns. It has fooled many selective fish on our...
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CDC Extended Body Dun Fly Tying Video
CDC Extended Body Dun This video features an extended body technique I came up with several years ago. It has worked quite well to imitate Baetis mayflies and PMDs. Change...
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Bottom Tickler Tungsten Jig Fly Tying Video
Bottom Tickler Tungsten Jig Fly The Bottom Tickler Tungsten Jig Fly is a Czech-Eastern European style jig fly. This color scheme of tungsten jig is tremendously effective. Fish this fly...
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Czech Quill Body Nymph Fly Tying Video
Tying the Czech Quill Body Nymph Learn to tie the Czech Quill Body Nymph in this fly tying video. This nymph is a play on a thread bodied nymph with...
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Fly Tying Video- Fish Skull Articulated Minnow
Tying the Fish Skull Articulated Minnow The Fish Skull Articulated Streamer is an articulated streamer pattern tied with the new articulated shanks from Flymen. The articulated shanks can be used...
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Fly Tying Video- Chewee Caddis Larva Pattern
Chewee Caddis Larva Pattern Chewee skin is a great material for adding realistic bodies to fly patterns. In this video UV Chewee skin is used to create a simple to...
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Fly Tying Video-Blood Midge Pupa
A fly tying video demonstrating a simple and effective blood midge pupa. Featuring the Daiichi 1273 red hook. Materials: Hook: Daiichi 1273 size 16-18 Thread: Ultra Thread 70 Tail: White...
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Fly Tying Video- How to tie the WD-40 nymph
Learn how to tie the WD-40 nymph. A great fly for beginning fly tyers. This simple mayfly nymph imitation is a fish catching machine. Tie it in a variety of...
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How to Apply Dubbing
How to apply dubbing? Dubbing is a technique that is often done poorly, resulting in shabby looking flies. When fly tier's learn how to apply dubbing correctly the shape and...
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Chewee Cranefly Larva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjSkDAR4Pfw Craneflies are under represented in most fly angler's boxes. In my local streams cranefly larva are incredibly effective, especially in the spring when water flows rise. This chewee skin...
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