The Hairy Hotchkiss
Chris Sandford takes us through how to tie the 'Hairy Hotchkiss'.
Hidden in plain sight
Neil Patterson's trip to Iceland's top big-fish salmon lodge reveals a new line of thinking.
100 hours in the Highlands
Allan Liddle follows Osgood McKenzie's footsteps into the remote waters above Loch Maree.
The Copper Tom
The Copper Tom is an emerging Tay pattern which bucks the trend on body colour, but still catches the salmon's eye.
Beneath the Mask
George Barron explains why every trip to Corrib should include a visit to neighbouring Lough Mask, and gives three essential Mask patterns including Young Pretender, White-hackled Kate, and Peter Ross Nymph.
Harbingers of spring
Peter Lapsley describes the river fly fisher's four harbingers of spring the March Brown, the grannom, the Large Dark Olive and the Hawthorn and ties the March Brown Nymph, March Brown Spider, March Brown Emerger, March Brown Dun, PT&HE Nymph, Goddard's Super Grizzly, Grannom Pupa, Grannom Dry and Hawthorn Fly
My flexible Fiend
Faster currents and deeper lying fish caused Colin MacLeod to experiment this season with a heavier fly based on a Flexi-worm. It has since produced incredible results.
Sheelin smiles
Patsy Deery says Sheelin's fortunes are looking up, and shows us how he ties his Dry Sheelin Daddy that took a 5 1/2 pounder.
Tungsten-tipped Buzzers
John Goddard often wrote to the editor, Mark Bowler, in response to FF&FT articles. Here, he summarises his findings on using tungsten-headed Buzzer Pupae, adding how he fished them.