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Teal, Blue, and Silver

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The CDC & Elk family

Improving the best: Hans Weilenmann's CDC & Elk is a fly as good as they come. Still a lot of people - including Hans himself and the author - have made variations. This article covers a whole bunch of CDC & Elk variations.
Meet the family here

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The Polar Conehead

Muddler: This is a muddler design type of fly that is more or less a derived idea based on something that has been copied many times, but never the less an efficient fly that has caught the author many fish.
See the pattern here

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Favorite Dad

Warm water: In Virginia, the rivers are full of crayfish. Author Michael Smith AKA Rybolov went last week to the South Fork of the Shenandoah, and in a meter-square area along the shoreline, there had to be at least 30 crayfish. That may be why Skip's Dad works so well there.
Learn to tie the bass pattern here

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Tie a muddler

Pictures: Martin Joergensen: "One evening when I was tying flies with a couple of friends, one of them, Nils, asked me to tie a muddler, just as a demo. I did. Luckily the other friend, Henning, was quick and caught these great pictures of the process."
These step-by-step pictures show you how to tie a nice muddler.

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One of my all time favorite wet flies. A fantastic combination of colors, a classic shape and outline, fish attracting ingredients, and above all a couple centuries of proven worth.

A hackle from a "salmon hen neck" provides the collar on this fly, providing both color and excellent mobility.

Teal, Blue, and Silver

Type Wet fly

Tied by
Bob Petti

Difficulty
A little difficult

Target species
Brown trout

Materials

Hook Standard Wet Fly
Thread Danville 6/0 Black
Tail Golden Pheasant Tippet
Ribbing Fine Oval Silver Tinsel
Body Flat silver tinsel
Wing Teal flank
Throat hackle Blue hen

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