Friday Night Flies – Rotten Candy Spey Fly
Friday Night Flies – Rotten Candy Spey Fly Friday Night Flies – Rotten Candy Spey Fly is one of those fun creations we make for the Steelhead run out here in BC Canada. Steelhead...
Spey patterns such as the Lady Caroline were first developed along the River Spey. They displayed a charactor all their own. The hackling was unique, they used a spey cock side tail or a long heron hackle and the wings were tied from Mallard shoulder.
Later, the Dee-style of tying combined a wing with a long hook, slim body, and long heon hackles. However, it is not only the wing that set these two styles apart, the complexity of the patterns begin to move in the direction of the Victorian era Full Dressed Salmon flies
Friday Night Flies – Rotten Candy Spey Fly Friday Night Flies – Rotten Candy Spey Fly is one of those fun creations we make for the Steelhead run out here in BC Canada. Steelhead...
Friday Night Flies – Cutthroat Bliss fly Super Easy Cutthroat Trout and Steelhead Fly. The Cutthroat Bliss fly is one of those generic patterns that you can mix and match colors to suit your...
Friday Night Flies – Rocket Minnow The Rocket Minnow is a quick and easy unweighted Steelhead fly. It’s a good idea to have patterns in a variety of weights in your box because it...
Friday Night Flies – Hobo Spey Fly The Hobo Spey is a great pattern for Steelhead, coho, and chum this is a nice quick tie for the toothy fish. If you want good pattern...
Friday Night Flies – Electric Spey This Spey fly came to be from free styling at the vice one night. I took elements from some flies that I have seen done by Art Lingren...
Friday Night Flies – Purple Spey This is a bit of a freestyle spey pattern. I got a lot of inspiration for this one from Art Lindgren’s books and a lot of online sources....
This is a down and dirty hair wing fly pattern that will be a great early season Pink Salmon fly. It will do really well when the Pinks aren’t as numerous at the beginning...
Art Lingren’s Black Spey Fly – Friday Night Flies Art Lingren’s Black Spey Fly – Friday Night Flies. I finally had the pleasure of meeting Art Lingren. I own numerous copies of Art’s well...
Friday Night Flies – Golden Demon Variant Spey Fly Classic pattern from the 1800s’ the Golden Demon was brought over from NZ. This clean spey fly is best used in clear water conditions. Friday...
Friday Night Flies – Spruce Fly Variant Fly challenge from a Friday Night Flies fan. Zach passed it along to me. The original Spruce fly is used in the OP for Sea-run Cutties and...