This is a shrimp pattern created with a more realistic Shrimp look, with hook point up, and weighted at the belly that enable for both mid water and bottom fishing, targeting Bonefish, Trigger and also Permit… I”m sure any species that feed on shrimps will be on the list. The challenge of this pattern is […]
GnG Sardines Evolved from the Tube Snowrunner Baitfish pattern, here I try a fully synthetic baitfish pattern tie almost all with Deer Creek Glist and Glint fibers… on a Gamakatsu SL12S saltwater big game fly hook for Sailfish and large predator fish. Picture of my friend Agung Syakirul from Indonesia landed a nice sailfish with […]
A simple to tie and yet effective SnowRunner pattern that have been successfully hooked some Taimen and Sailfish Materials List : SnowRunner Semperfli Nano Silk 6/0 Deer Creek UV fine flex resin and Gator eye Palm Chenille and Straggle String Large lateral line Mega tube and silicon sleeve ICE UV dubbing /shiner […]
The version 2.0 The version 1.0 Year 2012, we had a International Fly Fishing Festival in Malaysia… one of the fly tier from Japan, Yusaku Tsutsui from Osaka amazed everyone with his foam popper and crease pattern. The original pattern by Yusaku From Yusaku’s idea.. I did some modification, replaced the hackle tail with fibers […]
Popping.Minnow version 2 Some time ago, I tied up the 1st version of Popping Minnow using ready made foam head The 1st version was tie fully with synthetic fibers like Predator fibers or Baitfish Fibers… great action and easy to cast. But due to the size of the foam popper head that available […]
SnowRunner Silverside Some times ago I did a point up silverside in synthetic material, but this round I’m doing it in natural, with the fibers from SnowRunner ( Nayat ) Silverside in synthetic material Materials: SnowRunner Marker Epoxy eye Leadwire Mylar tubing Saltwater hook Lateral flash Semperfli dubbing Picture step by step tying instruction: […]
Disco.Crab Few years back, when I was fishing in Maldives… one of my buddy caught a big GT on a really shinny crab pattern… and the best thing is.. that shinny crab pattern landed many bonefish and different species in Maldives. since that day, I’ve been wondering … why..??? No answer.. Maybe they like to […]
Smelt.v2 This is my second Smelt pattern… A friend send me a photo of Smelt in his river asking can I tie this little minnow as small as 4cm… So… the challenge is on..!! After many attempt… from 5cm… slowly size it down to 4cm.. for this version… I have put in marabou […]
Lumino Lumino – luminous bead hidden in the head of minnow fly pattern is a pattern I came up while designing for a heavily weighted fly or jig fly where local commonly call spin-fly I wanted a pattern which have the same shape but light enough for fly fishing with different sink rate. and […]