A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
Welcome to The Fly Box, our comprehensive repository of fly patterns. Here, you’ll find a meticulously curated collection of flies, each designed to enhance your fly fishing experience. Whether you’re targeting trout in a mountain stream or bass in a local pond, The Fly Box offers detailed patterns, tying instructions, and insights on the best conditions for each fly.
Discover traditional favourites and innovative new designs, all contributed by expert anglers from our community. Dive in, explore, and elevate your fly fishing game with the perfect fly for every occasion.
Your basic Woolly Bugger in black.
The Woolly Bugger is a very versatile pattern that will catch fish on virtually any lake or river. It can be tied in a variety of colour combinations, usually natural ones such at black, brown and olive.[...]
Source: The Fly-tying Bible, pp.110-11.
Primarily tied as a general nymph pattern, the Rabbit Fly also makes a pretty good imitation of small dragonfly nymphs that emerge in huge numbers on many Australian lakes.
When it comes to tying flies for use on lakes, it pays to have as much built-in action as possible.[...]
A fly designed by Rod Fox, of Hunter Valley Fly Fishing Club, appropriately named Foxy’s Horror. Great bass fly for rivers.
Foam for the body (the yellow for visibility), zonker strip for the tail and cactus chenille for the underbelly.[...]
Source: The Fly Tyers Bible, p. 96-97
This pattern is a variation of the classic Pheasant Tail Nymph. It’s body, tail and rib are the same as the original, but the thorax of this pattern includes a few strands of pearl Lurex laid over the peacock herl.[...]
Tying instructions: Diptera.co.uk,
The Fly Tyers Bible, pp. 36-37
Throughout Australia the Red Tag is excellent fished to surface feeding trout in rivers or still water (it is also a must-have for herring!). The fly is a half imitator and half attractor; the red tag, the peacock herl and to some extent the brown hackle attracting the fish.[...]
Source: The Fly Tyers Bible, p.188-89.
Designed by Terry Griffiths and Peter Gathercole in the 1960s, the Tadpole takes the use of turkey marabou for highly mobile wings and tails to it’s logical conclusion. The Tadpole’s tail is highly mobile and much longer than its body, giving it plenty of movement in still water.[...]
If you are chasing Luderick then this is the fly you need!
Designed to represent the natural seaweed that they eat this fly just has to be put in front of them and they will eat it.
Tied on sturdy saltwater hooks, all you have to do once you hook up is try and keep them away from the rocks.[...]
Source: InTheRIffle.com The Flashtail Whistler is a great fly for Pike, Peacock Bass and Largemouth Bass. It is a large profiled baitfish pattern that “whistles” when cast (due to the large bead chain eyes). The Flashtail Whistler can also be used in saltwater applications for…
The Cat’s Whisker is one of the best, if not the best, when it comes to stillwater trout fishing. There are many variations but the original remains as effective today as it was decades ago when Bob Church popularised the pattern after being given a handful to try by its inventor David Train.[...]