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Nymphs

Flies fishing under the surface imitating subadult insects
989

Dry flies

Flies fished in the surface
866

Stream fishing

About fishing in running water
825

Streamers

Long, slender flies that often mimick small fish
664

Beads

Flies with bead heads
602

Wet flies

Flies fished subsurface, often tied with wings
465

Caddis

Widespread and common insects AKA sedges - or Trichoptera in Latin
443

Saltwater

Fishing in the salt
435

Salmon flies

Flies for Atlantic and Pacific salmon
346

Deer hair

Thick, spongy hair from all kinds of deer
317

Foam

Closed cell foam, foam bodies, foam cutters
314

CDC

Duck's arse feathers
314

Mayflies

A type of flying insects with aquatic larval stages. AKA Ephemeroptera.
298

Baitfish flies

Flies that look like small fish that are eaten by big fish
276

Midges

Really small flies
274

Pike flies

Flies for pike, musky, northern pike - the fierce northern hemisphere predator
271

Emergers

Tying and fishing imitations of the emerging insect
262

Sea trout flies

Flies for sea run brown trout
257

Terrestrials

Insects that ought to stay on dry land
243

Tube flies

Flies tied on plastic or metal tubes rather than hooks
232

Tropical

About fishing the warmest parts of the world
224

New Zealand

North and south island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean
217

Jigs

Beaded flies tied on jig hooks. Meant to fish hook-up.
204

Shrimp flies

Flies that look like the tasty decapods, so high on the menu of many fish
195

Salmon fishing

Regarding the salmon of the world - Pacific or Atlantic
193

Brown trout

Salmo trutta - the most commonly fished fish in the world
176

Steelhead fishing

Chasing the chrome sea run rainbow trout
174

Zonker strips

Rabbit strip flies, zonkers, zonker wings
174

Trout

Content about the most popular fish worldwide
163

Lake fishing

Fishing in stillwater like freshwater lakes and ponds
150

Rubber legs and tails

All things rubbery, wiggly and squirmy in fly tying
150

Tying techniques

Learn new fly tying skills and tricks to make your flies better looking and more durable
149

Winter

Fishing in snow, ice, frost
140

Parachute hackle

Horizontal hackles wrapped around a post
135

UV-resin, epoxy and LCR's

Glues and resins that harden - including the smart ultraviolet (UV) light activated UV-resins, AKA Light Cured Resins (LCR's).
132

Destinations

Places to go fishing
131

Sea trout fishing

The silvery sea run brownies
130

Articulated flies

Flies in several sections
127

Bonefish

Albula vulpes - the ghost of the tropical flats
117

Soft hackles and spiders

Spider flies, soft hackle wet flies
117

Rainbow trout

Oncorhynchus mykiss
113

Stoneflies

112

Steelhead flies

107

Flats

Fishing the tropical flats - and flies for it
105

Coastal fishing

Fishing the ocean from the coast
104

Bass flies

Flies for smallmouth and largemouth
103

Lake flies

94

Buggers

Flies tied in the Woolly Bugger style with a bushy tail and a palmered body hackle
93

Hackle

92

Buzzers

88

Muddlers

Flies made from spun deer hair
86

Fly tying

Creating your own flies from feathers, hair and much more
82

Bucktail

82

Tarpon

Megalops atlanticus
79

Two hand rods

AKA Spey rods - primarily for salmon, sea trout and steelhead fishing
78

Hoppers

Grasshoppers, crickets and other terrestrials
75

Tying materials

All the stuff we use for our flies, feathers, fur, hair, synthetics
75

Redfish

A favorite gamefish in the southern US
73

Mountains

72

South America

Patagonia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and much more
65

Crab flies

Flies that imitate a quarry that's a favorite with many saltwater predators from cod to permit
65

Hair wings

Mostly salmon and sea trout flies with hair tied in in bunches for the wing.
65

Intruders

63

Iceland

That rocky, fiery, fishy north Atlantic island
62

Grayling

Thymallus thymallus
62

Boats

58

Carp fishing

A freshwater fish par excellence. By some called the poor man's bonefish.
57

Cone heads

Cones, disks
56

Dubbing

Tying material in messed up bunches - natural and synthetic
56

Pupae

55

Eyes

Dumbbell, bead chain, mono, stick-on
55

Nymphing

The method of fishing a nymph
54

Denmark

The small Scandinavian country with the great sea trout fishing
53

Bonefish flies

Flies for the elusive fish of the tropical saltwater flats
53

Scud flies

Fresh- and saltwater "shrimps" - gammarus, crustaceans, amphipods
50

Conservation and environment

About the effort to conserve nature, fish and fishing
49

Poppers

48

Pike fishing

Pike (Esox lucius), Musky, Northern Pike, the northern hemisphere toothy predators
44

Casting

Double hauls, tight loops, nice arcs, precision and distance
43

Tying tools

41

Panfish flies

Flies for pumpkin seed, bluegills, sunfish and such
38

Grayling flies

38

Carp flies

35

Sedge

About tying and fishing sedges
34

Beetles

Terrestrial insects with hard wing cases - AKA Coleoptera
33

Tenkara

The super simple Japanese fising gear, flies and technique
33

Permit fishing

Fishing in the tropical salt for the finicky permit - Trachinotus falcatus
32

Brook trout

Salvelinus fontinalis
32

Hair

A universal and popular fly tying material
30

Bass fishing

30

Egg flies

29

Redfish flies

29

Bamboo

About building, maintaining and fishing bamboo rods
28

Arctic char

The beautiful trout of the north
28

Ants

Ants AKA Formicidae are very popular for trout fishing on windy summer days
25

Permit flies

25

Spey Flies

Classical Scottish salmon flies
25

Beginners

Aimed at beginning tyers and anglers
24

Striped bass

Morone saxatilis
23

Equipment

All the nice gear we need to own
22

DIY materials

Do it yourself, home made materials for your flies
22

Rods

The rods we use for our flyfishing
22

Imitations

Flies that look like the real thing
21

Kayak

Small and fast vessels to fish from
20

Tying thread

Uni-Thread, Veevus, Danville, Monocord, synthetic, silk, gel spun, Kevlar, denier
20

Yarn

Knitting yarn, wool, cotton, synthetic, Antron, egg-yarn
19

Stillwater

17

Hatches

insects coming off the water
17

Knots

Connecting lines of all kinds
17

Autumn

When leaves turn brown and winter gets closer
17

Vises

Fly tying vises - AKA vices
17

Cutthroat

16

Float tubes

Fishing sitting in an inflatable ring
16

Bass bugs

Voluminous flies specifically for bass
15

Catch and release

15

Do it yourself

about making things yourself
14

Golden Dorado

The renown South American golden hunter
13

Rod building

Rod building for the beginner and the seasoned craftsman
13

Fur

Skin, zonker strips, hair wings, dubbing
13

Fly lines

All about the lines used for fly fishing
13

Shows

Fly fishing, tackle and dealer shows
12

Spinners

12

Africa

Fishing the warm continent
12

Tarpon flies

11

Giant Trevally

10

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