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FLY TYING

An hour’s practical demonstration by an expert is of more service to the fly tyer than volumes of written directions.

Dr. T.E. Pryce-Tannatt
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The Fancy Flies of T.K. Wilson

  • RLS
  • 28 March 2022
During his service in the R.A.F. the well-known angler and author T.K. Wilson planned the idea of a book dedicated to the subject of “Fancy Flies”. Unfortunately, Wilson’s intended publication…
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Smoke Fly

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  • 31 January 2021
Smoke Fly Back in the dim and distant past when I penned The North Country Fly. My purpose was to illuminate lesser known north country fly patterns. Hoping a modern generation of anglers and…
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Family Treasures

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  • 28 November 2020
I follow in the family tradition of collecting rare fly-tying materials. It’s turned into an obsession. Some early collected materials date to the mid-1800s, whilst others date to the…
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Material Changes

  • RLS
  • 8 April 2020
As a flytyer, I am always drawn to vintage auction lots that contain healthy proportions of tying materials and associated ephemera. More so if the auction lot is north country related or of…
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Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk

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  • 1 March 2020
It is safe to say that for the past century a certain brand of silk thread has become synonymous with the tying of traditional north country spiders. I am of course referring to Pearsall’s…
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A Guide to Choosing North Country Hackles

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  • 3 February 2019
A Guide to Choosing North Country Hackles It goes without saying that to dress the finest of flies, you need the finest of materials. And now thankfully, with the growth of online retailing.…
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Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear

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  • 4 December 2017
Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear The Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear features one of flyfishing’s most ubiquitous dubbing materials and I can’t think of any other flytying material that is so…
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Snipe Hackle for north country spiders
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Snipe Hackles and North Country Spiders

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  • 23 September 2017
Snipe Hackles (Gallinago gallinago & Lymnocryptes minimus) Snipe hackles are synonymous with the tying of north country spiders, and have along with waterhen and partridge become for many,…
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Woodcock Hackles & North Country Spiders

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  • 2 September 2017
Woodcock Hackles (Scolopax rusticola) The Woodcock is one of those quintessential North Country spider hackles, that has due to its scarcity become often overlooked by modern flydressers.…
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Arthur Ransome of Fly Tying
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Fly Tying In Winter

  • RLS
  • 22 August 2017
In the Manchester Guardian of the 1920s, and later within his collected fishing essays entitled ‘Rod and Line’. Arthur Ransome demonstrated the perfect temperament needed for a winter evening…
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Flytying – Read my absorbing blog articles about the art of fooling a fish with a feather. Each blog post features my own philosophy of selecting and combining a range of fly tying materials into something beautiful, unique and authentic.

Fly Tying despite its refinements of both tools and materials has changed very little. Its very essence is still the need to fool a fish into believing that the concoction of silks, fur and feather dressed to a hook, is a real insect.

The Sliding Stream blog features a series of articles about dressing and range of tradition and modern fly patterns for trout and grayling. Classic dry flies, nymphs and north country wet flies are covered in a series of fly tying blog posts. Fly tying techniques and material insights which provide the perfect flies for fishing on the freestone rivers running through the Yorkshire Dales and beyond. So, kick your heels back, pour yourself a glass of whiskey and read a series of flytying articles that share information, tips and techniques about all the aspects of dressing flies for trout and grayling fishing.

Autumn Grayling Black Magic Spider Brook and River Trouting Brown Owl Catskill Dry Flies Crimson Waterhen Dark Needle Dark Snipe & Purple Dry Fly Edmonds & Lee Fishing In Northern Streams Flytying flytying materials Gayle's Heather Fly George Morrel Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Grayling Flies Hare's Lug & Plover Herbert Palmer Joan Wulff John Atherton March Brown Spider Nicholas Fitton North Country Spiders Pearsall's Silk Preben Torp Jacobsen Quill Gordon Reg Righyni Richard Clapham Romilly Fedden smoke fly Snipe Snipe and Purple Split Cane Rods Spring Olive Sunshine and The Dry Fly Treacle Parkin Upstream Wet Fly vintage flytying Waterhen Bloa Wharfedale Trout Flies William Baigent William Brumfitt Winter Brown Woodcock Hackles

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