Video: How to Tie the Cream Cahill Sparkle Dun
Matt Grobert shows us how to tie a Cream Cahill Sparkle Dun in this week’s featured fly-tying video. Cream Cahill’s are the late-season version of an insect that hatches sporadically throughout the...
View ArticlePebble Mine Support Begins to Collapse
I’d been in beautiful Lake Placid, New York, for a couple of days already at the Outdoor Writers Association of America annual meeting when Whit Fosburgh waved me over to his table to join him for...
View ArticleGood News for Tarpon: Key West Votes Down Harbor Dredging
After many months of debate and a determined effort by pro-cruise ship business interests to sway voters, Key West voted down expanded dredging of the island’s harbor–a natural refuge for migrating...
View ArticleGovernment Dysfunction a Slow-Motion Disaster for Fish Resources
In addition to the estimated $760 million in daily income lost by communities and businesses bordering federal parks, the halt in collection of license fees and taxes that feed directly into wildlife...
View ArticleHow to Tie the “Same Thing Murray”
The “Same Thing Murray” is the subject of this week’s featured fly tying video. Tier Matt Grobert includes some slight variations from the original, a fly which was authored by Doug Hastings for New...
View Article4-Pound Tippet Tarpon Record Set Sunday
This past Sunday, Thane Morgan of Amarillo, TX, fly fishing with guide Dustin Huff, caught a 119-pound, 3-ounce tarpon on tippet that tested out at 3.8 pounds at the IGFA. The previous record for...
View ArticleHow to Tie the Picket Pin
To Montana cowboys, ground squirrels standing on their hind legs looked like horse picket pins. The “Picket Pin” got it’s name from the use of ground squirrel tail fibers in the wing. Pattern...
View ArticleAttaching Tippet Rings to Leaders
Tippet rings, anyone? Tim Flagler departs from his rather rigorous fly-tying video production schedule to take on these little devices, which can be viewed as either “the greatest thing since sliced...
View ArticleHow to Tie a Catskill-Style March Brown Dry
In this week’s featured fly-tying video Matt Grobert shows how to tie the classic Catskill-style March Brown Dry.
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving from MidCurrent
The staff at MidCurrent wishes everyone in the U.S. a Happy Thanksgiving. We hope your travels are safe and that you enjoy the company of family and friends.
View ArticleHow to Tie a Simple Snowshoe Emerger
In this week’s featured tying video, Matt Grobert ties a Simple Snowshoe Emerger on a size 20 #125 Dai-Riki emerger hook. The Snowshoe Emerger can be tied on sizes from 18-24 and can be used to imitate...
View ArticlePoetry: “Birds in Hand”
Robert DeMott once again shares a seasonal poem with MidCurrent readers… Birds in Hand Years ago, toward dusk on Christmas Eve, in those few strokes of day left before loved ones arrived for evening’s...
View ArticleTying Video: “Eggs Over Easy”
This week Tim Flagler cooks up “Eggs Over Easy,” showing how to a tie a very simple Egg pattern using Egg Yarn, thread, scissors and a bit of cement. ”Try them in different colors and sizes,...
View ArticleHow to Tie Ken’s Crazy Ant
Ken’s Crazy Ant is tier and videographer Tim Flagler’s fly of choice this week. Aptly named—perhaps because the pattern combines foam drawer liner, Antron and grizzly hackle—the fly floats like a cork...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from MidCurrent!
The staff at MidCurrent wishes everyone a joyous and safe holiday!
View ArticleHow To Tie a Zelon Midge
Matt Grobert ties one of Craig Mathews’s terrific patterns, the Zelon Midge, in this week’s featured tying video. The Zelon Midge imitates the adult midge. As Mathews told MidCurrent a couple of...
View ArticleHow to Tie the Disco Midge
The ever-popular Disco Midge is the subject of Tim Flagler’s weekly fly tying video. ”It’s a showy and very effective little pattern,” says Flagler, “but it’s still relatively easy to tie, even in the...
View ArticleHow to Tie a Micro Pheasant Tail Nymph
Tim Flagler demonstrates techniques for keeping the hook eye clear of cement as he shows the steps for tying a Micro Pheasant Tail Nymph. About the pattern Flagler notes, “I’ve found that going small,...
View ArticleUse a Whip Finish Tool to Cut Thread
In this week’s featured tying video, Tim Flagler gives away his technique for cutting tying thread neatly and easily, based on a modification to a favorite tying tool. Learn how to “Use a Whip Finish...
View ArticleHow to Tie a Weighted Isonychia Nymph
In this week’s featured tying video, Tim Flagler ties another must-have pattern, the weighted Isonychia Nymph. As usual Tim gives a ton of helpful tips on using tools and materials to make the pattern...
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