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Duck's extended body

Body work: Roger Duckworth shows an innovative and extremely easy technique to make durable extended bodies for mayflies, caddis, and stoneflies, and he shows a way of hackling the dry flies so that the hackle is under the body but above the hook so that it supports the fly more like the natural.
See how it's done here

Mayflies and More

Review: First a foremost a DVD covering 10 very neat and fairly easy patterns tied for chalkstream use, but also very useful in many other waters. Accompanied by a 30-page booklet with some general tying advice and supplementary instructions on each pattern.
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Proceed to "Mayfly Madness" here

Mayfly Madness
Proceed to "CDC May Fly" here

CDC Mayfly
Proceed to "Mayflies: Top to Bottom by Shane Stalcup" here

Stalcup's Mayflies
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Better-Winged Olives
Videos with "Mayflies" - More videos
The Giant Mayfly
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The mayfly lifecycle, incredible amounts of hatching mayflies in an Hungarian river.
Rhythms of fly fishing
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More mayflies than you can shake a stick at!
CDC Emerging Mayfly Nymph
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Fly Tying with Hans - CDC Emerging Mayfly Nymph. This has been a very successful pattern for imitating emerging late summer yellow mayflies, especially pale evening duns. It has fooled many selective fish on our tailwater. The body and thorax are made of CDC. This pattern can be tied in various color schemes to imitate different mayfly species. It can also be tied on a curved emerger style hook.

  
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Comparadone!
Comparaduns are one of the most versatile mayfly patterns in existence representing a low-riding mayfly to near perfection. However, many tiers shy this simple pattern due to the perceived complexity of tying the deer hair wings. Learn to master the technique with GFF partner Steve Schweitzer.