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Step 11 - hackle ready

Step 12 - first bunch of deer hair

Step 13 - spin the hair

Step 14 - more deer hair

step 15 - spin second bunch

Step 16 - keep on stacking

Step 17 - hair ready to trim

Step 18 - start trimming

Step 19 - more trimming

Step 20 - use curved scissors

Step 21 - body done

Step 22 - wind hackle

Step 23 - last turn

Step 24 - finish

Step 25 - varnish

Step a - dubbed body

Step b - dub sparsely

Step c - finished body

Step d - hackle

Green Machines

Deer hair body

Beaverkill trout

Winter sea trout

Eyes and beak

Since you got this far …

A money box

The GFF money box

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Long story short

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Long story longer

The Global FlyFisher has been online since the mid-90's and has been free to access for everybody since day one – and will stay free for as long as I run it.
But that doesn't mean that it's free to run.
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See more details about what you can do to help in this blog post.