American Pheasant Tail Nymph The PTN is one of the first flies I ever tied and so it holds a warm spot in my memories. There are a number of ways to tie the Americanized version of Frank Sayers PTN, a… more →
The Daily Fly Paper Blogpacres wrote 1 month ago: American Pheasant Tail Nymph The PTN is one of the first flies I ever tied and so it holds a warm sp … more →
pacres wrote 2 months ago: Heading into fall, my fly orders have been heavy with all sorts of Chironomid patterns like Snocones … more →
pacres wrote 2 months ago: From the vault of fly tying knowledge comes one of the most simple patterns. Of a number of patterns … more →
pacres wrote 3 months ago: Here is another piece of great tying footage from McA and the boys over at Rise Form. For this weeks … more →
pacres wrote 3 months ago: The name of this fly pretty much sums up my summer so far. With only a handful of days out so far be … more →
pacres wrote 3 months ago: I’ve seen this vise advertised in a couple of the fly fishing magazines and was interested to … more →
pacres wrote 4 months ago: Ya, it’s a staple in my boxes. Hans Weilenmann invented the pattern, so it was great to see hi … more →
pacres wrote 4 months ago: I love fishing dries and I’m always looking for new interesting caddis patterns. Dan designs f … more →
pacres wrote 4 months ago: We’re catching up on some great video put out by McA and the guys over at Rise Form Studios. W … more →
pacres wrote 6 months ago: We just finished enjoying the newest tying footage posted by our friends at Rise Form Studios. The f … more →
pacres wrote 6 months ago: It’s been a bit since the last post, but we recently added a new member to our family that has … more →
pacres wrote 8 months ago: More of one of my favorite materials to fish, the Snowshoe Hare (SSH) foot. This pattern is tied up … more →
pacres wrote 8 months ago: When I was at the WCFFE this past January I found an interesting new product called Nymph Head, a we … more →
pacres wrote 9 months ago: I haven’t posted much from youtube in quite a while and frankly I’m a bit disappointed w … more →
pacres wrote 1 year ago: Improved? I’ll have to cast a couple to be sure. Thanks to Paul Harper over at Fly Fish Calgar … more →
pacres wrote 1 year ago: Al Troth is credited with the creation of the Elk Hair Caddis, a staple pattern in many fly boxes in … more →
pacres wrote 1 year ago: We posted about one of my favorite flies a while back, the CDC & Elk. Here is a followup and a f … more →
pacres wrote 1 year ago: More from one of my favorite tyers of late. Here is a concept brought to the mainstream by Gary Lafo … more →
pacres wrote 1 year ago: Ya, it getting very close to that time of the year when I start regrowing the grizzly beard, let the … more →