Welcome to the Parks' Fly Shop fly tying video page. Below you'll see our three most recent Youtube fly tying videos, plus recipes for these patterns. We try to post a new video at least once a month, sometimes more often in the winter. If you have a pattern you'd like to see covered, either one of ours or a standard pattern, please contact Walter Wiese. Our full archive of tying vids can be viewed on our Youtube Channel.
The BLM is an excellent small, flashy nymph that works especially well in lakes. FIsh it either under an indicator or behind an attractor dry, fishing blind or casting to sighted cruisers. This is the olive-brown version. Also good when tied with the pheasant tail, PMD, red ice, black, and other color blends of Angel Hair, the primary material. This fly is an exceptional changeup for the more prominent Lightning Bug.
Hook: #16-20 standard nymph.
Bead: 3/32" gold (or to match hook).
Thread: 8/0 olive dun.
Tail/Body/Wingcase/Legs: brown-olive Angel Hair.
Rib: fine gold wire (often use copper as well).
Kaufmann Chironomids are good bets in area lakes when the trout are feeding on emerging midges at any depth. Fish on either a hand-twist or strip retrieve, on either a floating line just under the surface or on a sink tip deeper.
Hook: #12-18 1xl nymph or dry.
Thread: 8/0 black Uni.
Tail/Gills: white micro-Zelon or equivalent.
Abdomen: black Uni-Stretch or equivalent material that will lay flat.
Thorax: peacock herl.
Wing: grizzly hen fibers.
This is a basic, quick caddis emerger pattern using two magic materials, partridge flank feathers and peacock herl.
Hook: short-shank dry or nymph, #14.
Thread: 8/0 black.
Body: rough-dubbed tan SLF or similar natural/synthetic blend.
Wing/Legs: brown partridge.
Head: peacock herl.
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