Full dressed salmon flies

In this episode of History On The Fly from Eric Austin's 25 October 2024 presentation, Mary Orvis Marbury fly patterns are featured. As always, Eric offers an excellent presentation.

This small simple feathewinged salmon fly is probably one of the most well-known salmon flies of the Simple Strip Wing family.

Making your own twisted gut for tying on a blind eye hook for classic salmon flies.

Classic salmon flies doesn't need to be extremely complicated and projects of many hours behind the vice and use of expensive materials from a forgotten time.

In this video I demonstrate on how to add a feather wing to a classic salmon fly.

Materials Used;
Hook, T.G Classic Salmon/Steelhead size 1/0
Thread, Uni-8/0 Red
Tag, Silver Tinsel
Ribs, Flat and Oval Silver Tinsel