Fly Tying Sessions with Alex Jardine: Tying the Blue Winged Olive

Welcome to The Fly Tying Sessions with Alex Jardine. These are fortnightly fly tying videos, looking to help offer new patterns, interesting techniques and hopefully a bit of fishing fun.
Today's topic looks into several successful Blue Winged Olive (BWO) imitations that work well for UK, USA and European fly hatches. These patterns cover all stages of the life cycle.
Featured Flies (watch the video for material lists):
1. The Picric PTN
2. Glenn's BWO Emerger
3. The Quill CDC Dun
4. The Crippled Rusty Spinner
Please do feel free to ask questions in the comments section, If you enjoy it, please like and subscribe for future videos!
Tight lines and strong threads!
Alex
#BlueWingedOlive #DryFly #FlyTying

[@kalikasurf]

I hope everyone appreciates the fact that you tie each phase of the life cycle!!! No one else is doing that!
It’s not just a ‘this is a cool fly’........it’s a set up to get you thru an entire hatch without having to google what the next bug to fail with!

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Glad you find it useful! Trying to keep the video ideas fresh and interesting. If you ever think I am missing something or want to see something in particular please let me know.

[@charlesjardine5983]

Good Job Son! Proud of you ...DadX

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Thanks dad! Will get you on for one of the videos soon x

[@davidbenjamin5356]

Great video

[@sjohnson4882]

Nicely done!

[@PRFlyFishing]

Thanks Alex 👏🏻👏🏻

[@ericlong9085]

Thank you for sharing more great patterns and tips

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Thanks again for watching Eric! The emerger was working really well for me on Saturday.

[@brianfeeney9493]

Thank You ✨🎣💫

[@Fishwish]

Brilliant. Never occurred to me to mix cdc into dubbing. I shall have a crack at that. Like the way you’ve gone through each stage too. Good stuff.

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Thanks Charlie! The CDC is a useful mix, as is deer hair if you chop it up finely enough, although that can be a bit too bulky on the smaller flies.

[@Fishwish]

@@AlexJardineFlyFishing thanks - I’m banned from chopping up deer hair in the house, though! Bit harsh considering the mess the kids make, but I know my place.

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

@@Fishwish 😂 it is definitely a note of contention... I do make an offer to hoover afterwards but that is met with equal disdain

[@Graham-1888]

great flies and videos but i am more impressed that you have managed to use the stonefly bobbin holder without breaking it! its witchcraft surely ?

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Thanks Graham! Trust me, I have broken my fair share of them! That said I do enjoy tying with them although it’s getting hard to find intact ones...

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

I am hoping to give the Smhaen bobbin holder a go soon in comparison to my Rite one

[@DaveyW6985]

Hi What sizes do you tie the Glenns's merger in please?

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Hi Davey, generally I tie them in a size 16-20, but depending on your local hatches sizes 14, 22 and 24 can be useful too.

[@3000waterman]

Upticked, but crikey, Alex, that session is grossly over-stuffed with ADs and pop-ups. That's not ALL of CZcamss doing.

[@AlexJardineFlyFishing]

Thanks for the comment, and sorry about the adverts. Certainly not intended - will see if I can reduce them.