List of Fly Dressers

Mikael Frodin is a world-renowned fly dresser and fly fisher. He is in high demand for his excellent fly dressing clinics around the world. Mikael is also renowned for writing fishing articles for fly fishing magazines about his great passions – sea trout and salmon.

Paul Little is an expert fly dresser of classic salmon Flies. He enjoys dressing the Grubs, Spey flies and those flies that most people have long-since forgotten! He has presented salmon and trout fly dressing workshops in the USA and throughout the UK. Paul is also a qualified casting instructor with A.A.P.G.A.I

Frank Moors concentrates most of his fly-fishing efforts on Salmon, Seatrout and Grayling. His fly dressing mainly reflects his interest in Salmon and Seatrout. He has devised an anti-tangle rig for Secret Weapon type flies and includes the Nitro Shrimp among his newly created patterns.

John Maclennan is a well known Scottish angler and fly dresser.  John grew up fishing the River Tweed system for trout and grayling around his native Kelso.  John is a full-time guide on the river concentrating on the middle beats of the system around Kelso and Melrose.  This year sees John representing Scotland in both home internationals on the River Tees and European Championships in Bosnia.

Mike Townsend lives and fishes in the Aberdeen area.  In his second year of competitive tying he was awarded a silver medal in the classic salmon fly-tying forum. Once described by Jans Pilgaard as the guy who looks like a hooligan, but can tie impressive flies.

Sandy Dickson is a consultant for Tubeology and one of Scotland's finest and most recognised fly dressers.  Schooled in the Clyde style of fly dressing, but still one of the greatest innovators on the scene.  Sandy has designed a fantastic range of essential flies for any Stillwater angler to use any time of day.

Olli Ojamo is a leader in the development of tube fly systems for Atlantic salmon. He ties all of the Eumer range of conehead tubes. These have all been successfully trialled near his home in Finland’s River Merikarvianjoki.

Brian Burnett lives in the North East of Scotland and has healthy fascination for the history related to Traditional Trout wet/dry flies and Classic Salmon patterns from Britain and Ireland. His passion for fly dressing and fly fishing goes back to early school days when he was first introduced to fishing and the interest or obsession has stayed with him ever since.

Kevin Dawson of Northumbrian Fly Fishing has spent many years refining his fly fishing skills on the River Coquet.  Kevin is blessed with a jovial personality and is always eager to share his passion for fly dressing.  He is a much valued member of the Tweed Angling Fair Children's Day.

Mad-keen angler Dean Andrews is an actor from BBC's Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes as well as many other TV programmes.  Because of his acting expertise and passion for fishing Dean has become a familiar face as part of the 'Fish On Productions' team with John Tyzack. Dean's favorite pattern is the simple Pheasant tail nymph, however he is deadly with this in multiple variants. Dean loves tying natural river patterns like Olive Duns. 

Skuli Kristinsson is very much at home fly fishing Iceland’s pristine rivers and lakes for salmon, trout and grayling. He is an innovative fly dresser and is at the forefront of Icelandic fly dressing design.