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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie in thread at hook eye and wrap a smooth under body all the way to the bend in the hook. 2) Tie in a short tail of Wood Duck ( 10-15 fibers) or Pheasant Tail.(4-5 fibers) Do not cut the fibers that hang over the top of the hook. You will use them for the wing case. 3) Now wrap a smooth body (wraps touching each other) or rib the fibers with the thread. The fly on the right hand side of the image has a ribbed body with a pheasant tail back. This creates an olive underside and a ribbed pheasant fiber top. 4) Lift up the piece of feather that will become the wing case and wrap a bulbous thorax. 5) Pull the feather fibers over the thorax to form a wing case and tie a neat head. |
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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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