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Wayne Luallen

Wayne Luallen

Wayne Luallen is a well known fly tyer and instructor, whose skills and thorough and precise - almost meticulous - way of treating fly tying has been appreciated by many and awarded a Buz Buszek Memorial Award.
In the beginning of 1995 I attended a seminar with Wayne Luallen and Steven Fernandez here in Copenhagen. Wayne kindly allowed me to use some of his texts and drawings from that seminar and has since contributed more articles to this web site:

Authored these articles

Article Folding Feathers Nov 25. 2015 Creased There are numerous applications for feathers that have had barbs on one side folded opposite to the barbs on the other. Lean how here	Article Cleaning fly tying material Oct 25. 1996 Washing Why bother to clean your materials? Bugs, dirt and chemicals are likely on the material.	Article The nature of feather construction Aug 30. 1996 Morphology We have all read fly patterns that refer to quills, barbs, barbules, fibers, shafts, stems, vanes and so forth, but when we read these terms do we know what they have reference to? This article sets all these terms and many more straight. Read the article here
Article Stacking material Dec 28. 1995 Even When stacking materials it is important to consider it as consisting of more than just one process. There are several steps involved: material selection, cleaning and preparing, selecting the right tool and performing the stacking process itself.