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Worms provide a great source of calories for trout...

On Saturday, April 7-8, 2017 I had the awesome opportunity to attend the Wasatch Fly Tying and Fishing Expo held in Sandy, UT. I took the chance to enjoy the many demonstration tyers, vendors and classes offered at this amazing expo.

Check out the PostFly Fly Tying Box for April 2017

Wes Ashcraft of Pocatello, Idaho is a great artist, an awesome fly tyer and is responsible for some really gnarly hats.

Pulling up to my Post Office, anticipation grabbed me. I checked my box over and over ever since I received the notice that my little black box shipped.

The Elk Hair Caddis is a popular dry fly. Find out what Lance Dean thinks about it.

Dry Flies are an awesome way to target trout. Check out Fishbait's Fly Box's favorites.

The Pyramid Lake Beetle may be the most popular fly fished at Pyramid Lake. Here's its history.

Here is a list of five resolutions that I have set for 2017. What are yours?

Lance Dean of Fishbait's Fly Box shares what he feels are the YouTube Channels everyone should be subcribed to.

With Christmas only twelve days away, Fishbait's Fly Box ties 12 flies for the 12 days of Christmas

Looking for a gift for that fly tyer in your life, but don't want to break the bank. Read on for 10 gift ideas that fit the budget.

Fly Fish Food has finally done it. On October 22nd, Curtis Fry and Clark Pierce opened up a honeypot for fly tying in Utah...

Charlie Craven has authored a few fly tying book that belong an any Fly Tyer's library. His latest doesn't dissappoint find out why.

Tying flies is fun and relaxing, but can be overwhelming to a beginner. Find out what you'll need to get started without breaking the bank.

Fishing has alway been a big part of my life. It is part of who I am. My Dad taught me to fish at a very young age. Fishing with him was quite an expereience. Click here to find out why.

Like the 2017 Ford GT, the Dyna King Excalibur is American made and has many features that make it a winner.

From its heavy bead head to the shimmer of its holo tinsel body, the Maholo Nymph isn’t just attractive, it’s drop dead gorgeous. Rob Anderson used his innovation and creativity to modify the already deadly Pheasant Tail Nymph and turned it into the Black Widow of Pheasant Tails.

As a long time resident of Eastern Nevada, I have had the opportunity to fish Cave Lake State Park. Located just outside of Ely, NV, Cave Lake State Park is one of Nevada’s many beautiful state parks. The lake is home to a good source of stocked rainbow trout and a source of native brown trout.

The Tacky Fly Box has grown on me it has become my favorite nymph fly box that is an extremely durable fly box that is fairly light-weight and securely holds a ton of hooks very securely even after taking flies out of one slot and putting another fly in its place over and over again.

The first time I laid eyes on the Clouser Minnow, I wasn’t real impressed. It just seemed like a boring fly. Now that I am older, not necessarily wiser, but older, I have grown to respect this fly...

While skimming my Facebook page last December I came across a post from the Stonefly Society that showed a picture of Mickey’s Flashbulb. The Flashbulb is a bead-head attractor nymph...

While visiting the Wasatch Fly Tying Expo last year, I stopped by the Goat Head vendor booth to glance at what they were offering. They offered their share of sole spikes, but that is not what caught my attention. From the corner of my eye, I caught this two foot spinning carousel that had something glimmering....

Page 46 of the Feather-Craft Fly Fishing 2015 bulletin catalog was the first time I laid eyes on Mayer’s Micro Leech. That was the night I decided that I needed to tie this fly. The only problem with this plan was that I did not know what was used to tie it. Was it rabbit or squirrel? What was the head...

When a beginning fly tyer looks at a package of fly tying hooks they can become a bit confused. So let’s take a quick look at the common abbreviations/descriptions we might find on a package of hooks.

Collin Carlson's Provo Hooker can be tied in many color variations including but not limited too, chartreuse, fl. red, rust and of course olive.

I was introduced to the Bunny Hopper one summer afternoon while fishing for Bass at a reservoir in Nevada. The fishing was incredible that evening. We didn’t catch anything with any size but we caught lots of fish. Within a two hour period I personally caught over twenty fish and the people that I was fishing with were doing the same.

Created by Juan Rameriez, the Hopper Juan brings a ton of fun to a net on a summers’ day. From its segmented foam body to its elk hair wing to its bright indicator hot spot the Hopper Juan is an awesome looking fly. Juan did an awesome job bringing this fly to life.

After looking at just about every desk I could find on the internet, I found a roll-top desk in some online classifieds that I was thinking about settling on. It was going to run me about $150.00. After I spent a couple days mulling over this purchase I was about to make, I decided that a roll-top desk...

While at the Wasatch Fly Tying Expo in Sandy, Utah, I decided to invest in the Muskoka MagnaVise. The attraction to the bold profile, magnetic base and unique looking jaws of the MagnaVise was too, strong to fight. My only question was would the attraction remain after tying on it?

A couple months ago I was introduced to Lance Egan’s Rainbow Warrior. What a cool fly. After tying a few of these I decided to see what else Lance Egan was tying. I discovered a few different flies. One of these flies is called Egan’s Red Dart.

From the moment I laid my eyes on the Slumpbuster, (which was in a box of flies that my Dad tied for me as a gift one Christmas) I wanted to tie it. The Slumpbuster is one of three streamers found in John Barr’s book “Barr Flies”.

When I see fish rising, the Adams is the first dry fly I fish. The Adams was the second fly I learned to tie.

I was looking through the fly bins at Cabela’s a while back I was introduced to a shimmering fly that used pheasant tail for a tail and unique dubbing that I had never had any desire to use. The body and wing case shined almost to the point that I needed sunglasses to keep it from blinding me.

My introduction to the Super X fly came during the summer of 2005 while fishing the Truckee River near the California/Nevada border. The slower than normal fishing caused my Dad to resort to untested flies.

In his early teens, my brother received a fly tying kit for his birthday. My Dad showed us that wrapping peacock herl around a hook and then whip finishing the thread on the hook created the peacock nymph. He told us it was one of the only flies he fished as a teenager when fly fishing.

When I decided that I wanted to tie this fly I called Fish Tech and asked to talk to Mickey. Mickey was a very helpful when I asked him about his fly. He told me how simple of a tie the UV Worm was and that one did not have to limit the materials used for the body.

After receiving the chance to see the mean design and taking the opportunity place a size 12 hook into the hungry jaws of the Peak rotary vise, I was in love. So, I did what any love struck fly tyer would do and purchased the Peak rotary vise...

It's a bird...No, It's a plane...No, It's Super John!

This is a Foam Variation of the Bunyan Bug.

I built this portable fly tyingstation when I was getting back into tying flies.