GARPIN

try this one

http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?showtopic=19020

Try this, its the easiest weave to do.

online flytyer

Heres some videos on how to use it.

link

Heres another by the same tyer.

link

And some of his patterns.

link

Try this one.

link

I found this site, lots of good closeup pics.

Bugguide.net

Found this one, dont know if you know it, but lots of good pics, looks like users post photos the take from all over, just type in the type of insect your looking for.

Bugguide.net

Thanks for the comments guys, and to Chris, I know your just starting out flytying, Ive only been doing it for just over a year, so dont worry you'll get better fast especially with the help you'll recieve on the forum, the fly took me around about 7 hours I'd say.

Seeing as everyone seems to be doing stoneflies just now, heres my attempt.

2nd attempt, tied on a size 8, wings made from sellotape and supermarket till receipt.

Thanks Thom, its my first attempt at an adult salmonfly/stonefly, the hook is a size 12 longshank lure.

Had a go, still got epoxy eyes to put on it, could have done the wing better, but I only have green raffia just now.

You should also try to get Steve Thorntons book Listen to the River, as it is similar to Pauls, with more patterns although I think it is now out of print, but it is also available on cd.

It is called flytyers Masterclass 2 and is available from his website. The link below has the info.

Thorntons Link

I was a bit shocked when I opened the box, took me ages to untangle and sort them all out.

How many? must be around a thousand, if not more.

Heres the rest.

Last year I got salmon flies from a first time seller for £50, he must not have known the value of them, just said box of flies on the item description and a small not very good picture.

Turned out to be a large shoebox packed to the brim with all types, and hundreds of treble hooks. Heres some of them.

Peter Lapsley has a profile of Paul in the current issue of flyfishing and flytying magazine(April 2006), it tells how he started tying, and describes some of his techniques, and has some of his patterns he uses on the river.

http://www.flyfishing-and-flytying.co.uk/

Heres the pattern from flyanglersonline.com

clouser

Dont know if youve seen it but my brother sent me this today.

fishvid

Is that Belleisle gardens thats about a 5 minute walk down the road from me.

Take it youve been over, if you have youll probably have seen the River Doon, I used to fish at the Burns monument hotel and the ice factory just up from it, have had a lot of salmon out of there down the years.

Thanks Graham, the extended body is a stripped feather quill tied on then folded over, thread covered and three strands of uni yarn for the tails, the weave is uni flexx, green and brown.

The legs are the same uni flexx with knots for the joints, tungsten sheet for weight, damsel eyes, and brown raffia for wings, the body is a strip of 3mm nymph skin, the hook is a size 12 Kamasan long shank lure.

Heres one I did this morning, messing about with knoted weave.

Heres a caddis pupa I did a while ago. Not great but it was my first try at a realistic.

And a couple of mayflies, trying to make them fishable with one feather for the wing instead of the plastic wings.

Try sendit.com they have all the dvds and videos just do a search for oliver edwards, they sell them cheaper than normal also.

The official website for the videos is http://www.essential-skills.tv/