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Red Tag Revisited

Mar 5. 2021
Origins I always loved the Red Tag. I have tied and fished this fly a thousand times, but tend to basically do it the same way every time. Not so anymore!
See more here
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Red Tag Odyssey

Mar 5. 2021
Patterns A bunch of pattern descriptions and materials lists for flies inspired by the Red Tag
See them here
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Mart's CdL Hen Caddis Emerger

Sep 10. 2013
Soft Martin Westbeek's Coq de Leon Hen Caddis Emerger has soft contours and soft materials that suggest the movements of an insect struggling to break free.
See how to tie it here
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Buying Soft Hackle

May 7. 2013
Shopping The soft hackle is supposed to be - as the name implies - soft. Soft hackle can come from many birds. Chickens, gamebirds like partridge, grouse and quail, pheasant and even crows and jackdaws.
Learn how to select the right here
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Double K Reverse Spider

Jul 1. 2010
Backwards Kelvin Kleinman shows us how to tie a really different saltwater fly based on the freshwater spider style, adapted for cutthroat stream fishing and then reversed to become a saltwater shrimp from outer space! A very special but also efficient pattern.
Reverse yourself here.
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Wingless Wets

Apr 13. 2006
Flymphs On a shelf in the shop was a little book that was propped open. It was Leisenring and Hidy's The Art of Tying The Wet-Fly and Fishing The Flymph. Inside, I found a treasure of patterns and some fishing instructions and I suddenly switched gears and began fishing these great little flies.
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Salt water spiders

Sep 2. 2001
Sparse The least dressed fly of all. The classic spider fly has to be one of the least dressed flies of all times. A slender body and a thin hackle - and that's it.
Spiders found here
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Picking hackle

Jan 1. 2001
Saving Some thoughts on hackle ...or living with less than the best
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Hen Hackle Demystified

Jun 6. 1999
Feathers Hen hackles have long been the source of confusion to many fly tyers. Whether they are looking for wings for their dry flies or hackles for their wet flies, there seems to plenty of head scratching when it comes time to purchase the appropriate feathers.
Read all about it
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North Country flies on blind hooks

Mar 5. 1999
Spiders More than 30 years ago I tied some of the North Country Flies on blind hooks. At that time Veniard Ltd. had them in their catalogue - but I had no silk-worm gut, so I tied them to fine monofile nylon.
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Wet fly hackle

Apr 20. 1998
Wet fly Learn to tie a really classical wet fly hackle.
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