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Published on Aug 18. 2017 - 7 years ago
Updated or edited 7 years ago

Dry flies

Emergers

Deer hair

Materials Used;
Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 12
Thread, Uni8/0 Rst.Brown
Shuck, Veniards Micro Glint Yellow
Body, Wapsi Life Cycle Dubbing Ginger Caddis
Thorax, Bronze Olive Diamond-Brite
Hackle, Furnace Cock
Wing, Elk Hair

Originator

Davie McPhail

Originator's web site

http://www.fullingmill.co.uk/?fmprompt=false

Small Emerger Dun

Materials Used;

Jan 5. 2021

Cripple Peccary

All materials are natural and beautiful to tie with. Brown hackle for the tail, grizzly hackle, elk hair and peccary for the body.

Mar 7. 2025

Dry Dropper Emerger Midge

Tying Dry Dropper Palomino Midge Emerger Fly by Davie McPhailMaterials Used;Hook, Fulling Mill Short Shank Special Black Nickel size 12Thread, Black Uni-8/0Body, Veniards Chartreuse Vernille Suede Che

Mar 22. 2015

Taming the Humpy

The Humpy might be the greatest surface fly ever devised, but it also has a reputation of being difficult to tie. Learn to tame it here.

Jul 17. 2011

The CDC & Elk family

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.

Jan 1. 1996

CDC&Elk

Hans Weilenmann's classical contemporary sedge fly.

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