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Fly Tying- A new twist: The Burned Chenille Cased Caddis
before and after there are many ways to create a caddis case, here’s just a few: – the standard spun and trimmed or burned deer hair which looks pretty nice but doesn’t help the fly sink much as its a...
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Fly Tying Videos- Tim’s Caddis Larvae
by Tim Flagler at tightlinevideo man, i really love Tim’s tutorials. everything about them; the well and thoroughly thought out descriptions, high film quality, crisp and clear instructions and overall...
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Belly Scratcha !
just looking at these two pics should dispense the need for any further commentary… we’ve all seen a lot of awesome streamer patterns but in my opinion, if ever there was a ‘good as good gets’ little...
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Fly Tying Tutorials- the Silver Invicta
“The Invicta was originally known as The Pride of Devon, The Silver Invicta is a variation of the original Invicta fly pattern. The Invicta Caddis wet fly pattern was first mentioned in James Ogden’s...
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Fly Tying videos- Stew’s Glassy Spider
by Hans Weilenmann a direct descendant of Stewart’s Black Spider, Hans’ variant will be it’s perfect companion for when fish aren’t interested in fashionable black and want something less Gothy yet...
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fly tying- whipping up a fluff cat
by Matthew Pate via HMHFlyFishing at first glance, this Cat might look like any other bunny-leech type streamer/lure/attractor fly but on second look there’s that green skirt made of Chrystal Hackle or...
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Fly Tying- Some new twists on an Old Cahill
by Tim Flagler via TightLineVideo a nifty little yellow floating nymph bug indeed ! this little fellow would have come in super-handy a few weeks back in the UK when the Yellow Mays where coming off....
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Fly Tying- April tells us all about her Rhea
first, here’s the beast. well, three of them… as for the telling all about part, here’s April Volkey giving what’s in my mind/experience the finest and most thought-out fly tying material how-to-use...
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Tim’s Little Black Stone
by Tim Flagler via TightLineVideo hard to think of a nicer, simpler, great surface footprinted, Wonder-Winged, low-riding adult stonefly pattern. harder yet to think of anything else i could add to...
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Fly Tying- Building a better Boobie
by Philip Rowley Boobie flies, lovem’ or hatem’. personally, i’m somewhere in between but loving them or not isn’t really the point of today’s post but one of cleverly thought-out fly design and...
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Fly Tying- Deviating Charlie’s Nuke Egg
some people like egg patterns and some people don’t but what i’m seeing in Charlie Craven’s great step-by-step tutorial is a tying technique that’ll be of interest to any fly fisher. (except for the...
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Fly Tying- More on Biots
today’s tying tutorial treat comes to us from Romania via buddy Lucian Vasies, one of my favourite all-time trout-type fly tiers. we’d previously seen a more-than-nice introduction to this great fly...
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Fly Tying- a Blae and Black/Black Pennell two-in-one wet fly
blae [bley, blee] Origin adjective, Scotland and North England 1. bluish-black; blue-gray. “Ye must be fair starving, Paul,” quoth she softly with her hand on my arm, and I daresay my face was blae...
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Fly Tying- Making an Easy flat Lead Tape substitute
“If you can’t find Lead Tape/Foil then why don’t you make your own using a Seam Roller….. ?” Davie McPhail‘s question/suggestion says it all. first of all, flat lead tape, whether sticky-back or not...
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Fly Tying- a Perfect Embryo
here’s a super-nifty tying trick from Gilbert Rowley i’m neither pro nor con when it comes to egg patterns. as far as today’s tutorial goes, i’ll even completely disassociate from the fact that its an...
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Fly Tying- More on Tying Thread Twist
good things come and go and the UKFD – UKFlyDressing forum recently and very unfortunately did just that. it’s hard to put a rating on fly tying forums but i always really appreciated this one, there...
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Fly Tying Videos- Tim’s Caddis Larvae
by Tim Flagler at tightlinevideo man, i really love Tim’s tutorials. everything about them; the well and thoroughly thought out descriptions, high film quality, crisp and clear instructions and overall...
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Belly Scratcha !
just looking at these two pics should dispense the need for any further commentary… we’ve all seen a lot of awesome streamer patterns but in my opinion, if ever there was a ‘good as good gets’ little...
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Fly Tying Tutorials- the Silver Invicta
“The Invicta was originally known as The Pride of Devon, The Silver Invicta is a variation of the original Invicta fly pattern. The Invicta Caddis wet fly pattern was first mentioned in James Ogden’s...
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Fly Tying videos- Stew’s Glassy Spider
by Hans Weilenmann a direct descendant of Stewart’s Black Spider, Hans’ variant will be it’s perfect companion for when fish aren’t interested in fashionable black and want something less Gothy yet...
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