Tying Tuesday: Euro Nymphs and Extra!

The primary Tying Tuesday of 2025 options a number of classes on vital tying expertise, together with a time-tested sample and an attention-grabbing Euro nymph. It’s been too chilly to fish in my neck of the woods, and I do know I’ll be spinning up a number of of those flies this week whereas I watch for hotter climate.

The primary sample this week is from Davie McPhail, probably the most gifted tiers presently spinning hair and hackle. His movies are incredible training instruments, and this tutorial on the March Brown Euro Nymph isn’t any exception. Despite the fact that I don’t get many March Browns in my neck of the woods, I wager I might adapt this sample to carefully match a few of my native mayflies.

Up subsequent is a brand new tutorial on tying a now-classic fly: Higa’s SOS. This little mayfly-esque imitation is a lethal sample, and it’s a private favourite of many guides I do know. It’s additionally a go-to prospecting sample for its inventor, Spencer Higa, who continuously makes use of it throughout journey to New Zealand.

Rounding out this week’s Tying Tuesday is the newest episode of Fly Fish Meals’s Ability Builder collection. This episode exhibits you a simple methodology for stripping quills, coloring thread, and twisting wire. These are must-have expertise for a lot of patterns, so in case you’re battling them—or simply new to tying generally—you’d do effectively to provide this video a watch.