Free fly tying courses

Approximately one-third of the website consists of free content, which now includes our detailed and user-friendly Estuary, Bass, and Trout fly tying courses. These courses are accompanied by a comprehensive A-Z guide of fly tying skills, as well as a Glossary (or Dictionary, if you prefer) that assists in understanding a lengthy list of fly tying terminology. Therefore, it doesn't matter if you wish to begin a fly-tying course from the beginning, simply improve your existing skills, or introduce someone to the pleasures of fly tying, as we have made it as effortless as ABC. Click on "fish on fly" on the menu bar above and select Fly-tying courses in the drop down list. Your feedback would be appreciated.

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featured image Fish on fly - Central Queensland
This post is a work in progress and lists the different species of fish I have landed on fly in Central Queensland. I have had a look through my photos from the last couple of years and added those that I have found but there are still some photo gap...
featured image Bream and bass - gear and set ups.
Matching the hatch i.e. what bream and bass (or any fish species for that matter eat) is a fundamental influence on what gear, set up and bait to use to catch a particular species....
featured image Bream
Bream are a species that grow slowly. By the time they reach the minimum legal size they are typically around 5 or 6 years old. So please consider catch and release. ...
featured image Fishonfly - #8 weight targets, gear & set ups
I am lucky in that I often find myself having the opportunity of fishing my #8 weight fly outfits to either in east coat estuary waters or inland native species waters. Along the coast and in estuaries I target bream, flathead, whiting, tarpon and s...
featured image Lake Jindabyne
The lake is about 15km long and about 6km at its widest point and up to 37 meters deep. Strong winds often prevail or blow up with little notice and the surface of the lake can turn treacherously choppy with no notice at all....
featured image Knots - nail loop knot
The system I always use is to form a 1cm loop on the end of all my fly lines using a nail knot tool. I use Maxima Ultragreen Monofilament of a size that will give me a loop which is about 2/3 the thickness of the fly line. For a #6 or #7 weight fly l...
featured image Bass and Bream Lures
I find that there is enough similarity between the lures I use for both species to treat them basically as interchangeable and consequently I only need to carry three separate lure boxes as described below....
featured image Recycling a damaged 115mm vibe
OK its not as good looking as the original vibe but it was a great way to keep myself entertained on yet another windy and wet day....
featured image Articulated bugger
It doesn't matter which of the larger CQ species your fishing for ... at 13cm long and with a great swimming action more often than not my articulated bugger in Qantas colours is my goto fly....