DIY materials

Do it yourself, home made materials for your flies

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Video How to make and paint heads for Dog Nobblers Jan 31. 2023 The Dog Nobbler fly was designed by British all round angler Trevor Housby, after inspiration from American spin fishermen using ultralight tackle and small jigs.	Video Blending your Own Dubbing Jan 15. 2023 A short video where Davie McPhail shows how to blend your own dubbing from scraps using a coffee grinder.	Video Mixing Dubbing Jan 1. 2022 Ways of mixing various materials into your own custom dubbing.
Video DIY shanks for linked flies Dec 14. 2021 Instructions on how to make your own shanks for short articulated (linked) flies. See the article Linked flies revisited for more on the DIY shanks.	Video DIY intruder shanks Mar 6. 2021 Making intruder shanks from hair pins using a set of looper pliers. It's very easy to create neat and consistent eyes on shanks that will cost almost no money.	Video Making Orkney Peach Dubbing Sep 12. 2020 As promised here's the video of how to prepare your own Orkney peach dubbing.
Video Shrimp shells May 1. 2020 Preparation of the shell for a shrimp, scud or crayfish	Video Ear Bugs Dec 7. 2019 Building easy segmented fly bodies with cheap silicone earring stoppers.	Video Making your own Substitute Gut Nov 1. 2019 Making your own twisted gut for tying on a blind eye hook for classic salmon flies.
Video TTCC (Tungsten Tube Cased Caddis) Feb 13. 2019 The larvae of a number of species of caddis flies build protective cases from pieces of sand, twigs and plant stems.	Video How to Prepare and Dye Peacock Herl Black Jul 4. 2017	Video Catching fish with my Beard! Jun 30. 2017 Many people have already asked me to tie a fly with my beard hair, so here it is! I cut some hair from my beard, then tied a clouser minnow with it.