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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Make a splayed tail with the Microfibetts. 2) Tie in Goose Biot by its tip and wind forward to form a smooth abdomen. 3) Strip the barbs from both sides of 2 CDC feathers. To do this hold 2 matched feathers together. Now strip the barbs off of one side of both feathers by holding the barbs between the fore finger and the thumb and cutting along the stem. 4) Form the barbs into a bunch and place a 2 inch long piece of poly yarn on top of them. 5) Place the combination of poly yarn and CDC at the front of the hook where you'd like to form the wing. Make sure the CDC is on the bottom of the pile. 6) Tie in the CDC and the poly yarn the same way you would make spinner wings. Use a cross over pattern. Don't do more than 2 wraps for each cross. 7) Now grasp the entire stack of CDC and poly yarn and pull straight up. Wrap thread clockwise around the stack to form the wing post. 8) Leave the wing standing straight up and form a small thorax with super fine dubbing underneath the wing. 9) Whip finish head. 10) Hold on to poly yarn with one hand and pull the CDC barbs below the hook with the other. Holding the CDC barbs cut them off at about 1 & 1/2 times the hook gap. 11) Lift up on the poly and cut a wing about 1 hook length long. |
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When I was 13 my parents gave me a fly fishing outfit for my birthday. That year I spent a lot of time trying to fly fishing on our local trout stream. I caught nothing the whole summer. My dad, not being a fisherman, couldn't understand how I could keep going back day after day. One day a friend of his a work suggested we visit Carl Coleman who had a fly fishing store in the basement of his house. We went to Carl's and bought a fly tying kit, and Carl told us of a man who lived in my neighborhood named Lynn Holt who might help me tie some flies. That winter, Lynn graciously let me come over to his house on Wednesday nights to tie flies. The very first trip that next spring I caught my first Trout. Lynn did not ask for anything for all the lessons he gave me, he did it for the love of the sport. He was passing on a gift that will last me a lifetime.
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