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Beginners - Aimed at beginning tyers and anglers
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Better tinsel bodies
Jan 11. 2000
Smooth
How to tie a nice, even, ribbed tinsel body. Here's one way. The description assumes that you want a silver body. If you want gold, just replace 'silver' with 'gold' below.
Here's how
Article
Improving fly line control
Jun 27. 1999
Casting
Three ways of improving your fly line control. Line control is much more than mending
Learn something new here
Article
500 tying tips
Apr 20. 1999
Get better
This book is a collection of hundreds of small tying tips gathered during Dick Stewart's career as an editor of American Angler and Fly Fish America. Read the review here.
Read the review here
Article
Hypercomplete guide to fly tying
Mar 1. 1999
Beginners
There are many intended uses for this guide, namely as reference to ensure you have a fairly complete compendium as to what you will need to get started in flytying or to use when dropping the perfect holiday gift hint. But more importantly, it is meant for the budding fly tyer, in hopes that the years of wisdom gained through trial and error from myself and my tying buddies will steer the newcomer down the right path
Article
A portable fly tying kit
Apr 10. 1995
In the most simplistic terms, a flytying kit must only have the tools and materials necessary to tie the flies you may use on a single trip or a single river. However, like most of us, a travelling flytying kit consumes more space than 26 high-schoolers crammed in a Volkswagen Beetle.
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