For our online shoppers, we’ve just added our range of Cliff Outdoors fly boxes, as well as a number of new materials: Holo Tinsel, Krystal Flash, Glo-Brite yarn, Bronze Mallard, Stripped Goose Biots, Hungarian Partridge and Golden Pheasant Tippets.  

Mayflies, midgers and tailers are all current highlights as the brown trout season comes to an end. The South Esk continues to have excellent black spinner falls and baetid dun hatches, with a few hours of rising trout being found most days (excepting frontal-weather system days). The Lower Meander still has the odd hopper feeder,…

The feature film of last year’s RISE film festival has just been released, and is now available at FlyShop 1864. Featuring narration by renowned Tasmanian angler Greg French, Hatch brings BBC style documentary making to fly fishing, and features some of the World’s greatest hatches. These include mayflies hatches on the chalkstreams of England, mayfly leapers in the…

New in stock are Gamakatsu Saltwater Hooks (SL12S and Bonefish), as well as Hare’s Ear in our Ice Dubbing range. The hares ear dubbing which features a UV-reflective dubbing should be red-hot on traditional Hare’s Ear nymph patterns and Fastwater Duns. We also now have bulk 1 gram bags of natural CDC, for only $9.95. Finally,…