Hair

A universal and popular fly tying material

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Don't tie flies Oct 13. 2013 Just kidding! This is in reality a declaration of love to the art and craft of tying fishing flies with lots of tips for the beginning fly-tyer. Get a good start here	Buying Bucktail Apr 13. 2013 Shopping What to look for when buying bucktail, a cheap and easily accessible and very useful fly tying material. Learn how to get the best quality for streamers, saltwater patterns and pike flies. Get some buying tips here.
Pinky Pain Mar 3. 2012 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	Jiggy Nov 21. 2008 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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Video All Fur Wet Fly Oct 5. 2021 A truly quick and easy pattern to tie with a couple of nifty techniques, that create a wonderful translucency when wet.	Video Sunray Shadow Double Apr 26. 2020 The Sunray Shadow in double hook format. An incredibly successful sea trout and salmon fly, especially for fresh run fish.	Video Stacking Bucktail Using a Hair Stacker Feb 14. 2019 Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to even the tips of bucktain using a hair stacker and explains a bit about the nature of the hair.
Video Tool Tip: Hair Stackers Feb 5. 2019 Wayne Luallens shows a couple of types of hair stackers for fly tying, including the closed end hair stacker.	Video Moh-Moh Jan 28. 2019 The Moh-Moh (mohair mohican) is a versatile pattern for imitating sedge/caddis pupae.	Video Stacking Deer, Elk & Moose Jan 24. 2019 A few tips to properly stack elk and deer hair by Wayne Luallen.
Video Hand Stacking Bucktail Jan 24. 2019 Wayne Luallen demonstrates how to tame the sometimes difficult bucktail and get the tips even, just using you hands	Video Stacking Calf Tail Jan 24. 2019 Wayne Luallen gives a few tips on selecting and stacking calf tail.	Video Black Bear Green Butt Oct 13. 2018 Detailed instructions for tying a Black Bear Green Butt salmon fly.
Video Hairwing Spent Gnat Irish Mayfly May 26. 2018 Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill All-Purpose Medium size 10 Threads, White and Black Uni-8/0 Tail, Dyed Black Pheasant Tail Fibres Tag, Red Holographic Tinsel	Video Streamtease Apr 11. 2018 The Optic fly was released by ABU in 1967 as "a streamer of tremendous killing power" - and that label wasn't all wrong.	Video Billy Butt Jan 16. 2018 Materials Used; Hook, Fulling Mill Magni Double size 6 Thread, Uni-8/0 Yellow and Black Tag, Oval Copper Tinsel or Wire Butt, Glo-Brite Flu-Red No.4
Video Less Mess Morrish Mouse Oct 24. 2017 Detailed instructions for tying a Less Mess Morrish Mouse.	Video Bundling Hair Wings Oct 21. 2017 Tying tip #10. If your Elk Hair Caddis wings tend to slip off the top of the hook where you want them to stay then this tip is for you.	Video Evening Hair Wings Sep 6. 2017 If your divided hair wings are not always evenly divided then this VERY simple tip from the Beattys is for you. It is Tip #2 originally published in Fly Tyer magazine.

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