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Hair
A universal and popular fly tying material

Pinky Pain

Painful: Bright, colorful and visible. A perfect fly for slow fish in cold or murky water. It earned its name because the creator hooked his own nose with it on its maiden voyage! Seatrout like it, but other trout will too.
See how to tie it here

Bloody Butcher

Wet fly: Originally this was a classic style wet fly with a feather wing, but it's easily transformed into an excellent sea trout fly. Black, red and silver are perfect together and makes the fly very visible. See tying steps and lots of pictures and tie along here.

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Jiggy

Stolen hair: A jigging fly for almost any predatory fish originated by Bob Popvics. After a trip to Danish island Bornholm in 2007 Kasper Mühlbach wanted to tie and try this successful pattern and ordered a special color. But someone else came first and bought his custom dyed bucktail.
See the result here.

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Très Bien

Bright: This is another bright tube fly for clear water designed by Danish fly tyer Ken Bonde Larsen. And another one that uses a cone to add weight to the front of the fly. And another one, where the metal cone can be replaced by a common head or a plastic cone.
You can see detailed step-by-step photos here.

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The Dirty White

More tubes: We continue our series of tube flies tied in the Scandinavian style. This fly is another subdued yellow, white and gray fly, well suited for bright light and clear water. It uses a mallard hackle to create a nice, closed shape.
See a detailed pattern description here

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The Overtaker

Taking over: A small black tube fly inspired by the classical Undertaker and flies like the Green Butt. This small fly shows that bube flies do not have to be large. It's petite, it's black and it's sexy with a small hotspot.
And no, it's not a piece of lingerie

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Sunray Shadow

Patented: The Sunray Shadow is a true killer fly for salmon fishing. Tied on a tube with a wing and no body, simple as few flies, but still - or maybe rather because of that - extremely efficient. The fly uses few materials and is very easy to tie.
We look at a version, which is fairly loyal to the original.

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The Cautery

Cut, cut: Martin Joergensen writes: "I always wanted one of these tools. I have seen them used at fly tying shows and by a few tyers elsewhere, and found the tool to be an excellent companion for the lazy and sloppy fly tyer. Just my kind of tool!"
Read his review of the tool that burns material here

Go to "Hairwings & Tubes"

Hairwings & Tubes

Salmon flies: With this book "Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon" Chris Mann has worked his way through yet another pile of flies sent to him from all over the world. And Chris Mann has done it again and provided us pattern-hungry fly tiers with a wealth of new patterns to inspire us.
Read GFF partner Martin Joergensen's review here.

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Tying on hard hair wings

Setting: When I talk about hard hair I both mean hair that's hard - like squirrel and polar bear - and hair that's hard to tie in on the hook. We all know the problem: not only is squirrel wings hard as #"¤%&/ to place properly on top of the shank, but they also sometimes seem to fall off for nothing.

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Hook: Partridge Barbless Ideal Nymph #8, Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black, Rib: Copper wire, Body: Pine squirrel underfur, dyed chestnut, Wing: Pine squirrel 'zonker' strip, dyed olive-brown, Collar: Pine squirrel guard hairs, dyed chestnut - in split thread Note: The Squonker is a generic 'zonker' pattern - vary color and size as desired. Pattern and fly: Hans Weilenmann

Fox Squirrel Nymph

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Tying the Fox Squirrel Nymph with Davie McPhail. Materials Uesd; Hook, Kamazan B175 size 14 Thread, Uni thread 8/0 Tan Tail, Small Bunch of Red Fox Squirrel Guard Hairs Tib, Small Gold Tinsel or Wire Body, Belly Fur from the Red Fox Squirrel Thorax, Red Fox Squirrel Body Fur Hackle, Brown Partridge Head, A tiny bit Red Fox Squirrel Body Fur

Moose Hair Pupa

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It might be in Italian, but it's an easily tied and beautiful fly. Two colors of moose hair make a really nice segmented body.

George F. Grant’s Flies
George F. Grant's flies utilize some very special techniques.

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