A great little pattern for when the craneflies are about that is easy to tie and will float all day long. You can also tie these in attractor colours, orange, yellow and red all work well. – By Barry Ord Clarke. Hook: Mustad Heritage C49 # 12 Tying thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown Body: […]
Following the success of his ground-breaking first book in this series, Barry Ord Clarke (recently voted Flytyer of the Year) is sharing his latest innovations in this publication. As with his first book, each step-by-step photographic tying sequence is linked to the online video of him tying each of the flies featured. […]
On the 5th September Merlin Unwin Books Ltd will be publishing The Feather Bender’s Advanced Flytying Techniques by Barry Ord Clarke. In his latest book Barry Ord Clarke, whose accolades include International Fly Tyer of the Year 2021 (Fly Tyer Magazine), offers his readers 28 fish-catching flies which challenge the fly tyer to take […]
A short film that Barry Ord Clarke was lucky enough to narrate, about life and fly fishing along a wild river in Swedish Lapland, one week in late July 2023. Story by MARKUS HOFFMAN & TOMAS SKOGING. Credits: Narrated by BARRY ORD CLARKE Filmed by BENGT LÖFGREN Edited by TOMAS SKOGING Music and […]
This is Barry Ord Clarke’s super quick hot glue ant, that – with a little practice and preparation, takes less that three minutes to tie. With this technique you can tie flying ants in all black, red or as his personal favourite here in a black & red combo. Visit Barry’s website here: […]
Barry Ord Clarke: “A little tour of my travel bag that goes just about everywhere with me. Like all Marc Petitjean’s tools and accessories it’s beautifully designed with the traveling fly tyer in mind. Each of the bags are designed to hold different materials and all fit snugly into the travel case, individually or as […]
Barry Ord Clarke showed this special fly-tying wax at the Experience the World of Fly Fishing (EWF) in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich by the end of October. From the website: “A new batch of sculls now available… The feather benders home grown and hand crafted fly tyers wax scull’s. It’s not that long ago that pre-waxed […]
Barry Ord Clarke’s new book, Flytying for Beginners, published by Merlin Unwin Books, £14.99 hardback is out now and gaining plaudits from around the world. Barry has just been voted Fly Tyer Magazine’s Fly Tyer of the Year 2021! The prestigious award honours the exceptional international contribution Barry has made to the world of fly […]
On the 2nd of September, 2021, Merlin Unwin Books will be publishing “Flytying for Beginners” by Barry Ord Clarke. The book instructs the reader on basic tying skills via twelve popular international fly patterns. A special feature of Barry’s book is that the reader can create each fly with instructions in the book, and […]
Should it be possible to hold big events in October 2021 – which, due to the Covid pandemic, cannot yet be answered at this point in time – the Experience the World of Fly Fishing will open its doors again after nearly two years. Should this be possible, we are looking forward to again welcoming […]