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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Bend down barb and push brass bead up to hook eye. 2) Tie thread in at hook bend and tie on gold wire for rib. 3) Tie in 3 Pheasant tail tips for tail. 4) Tie in 4-6 strands of pheasant. 5) Grab pheasant tail with hackle pliers and twist into rope. 6) Wrap pheasant tail rope to the middle of hook shank and tie off. 7) Rib Abdomen with gold wire 4 turns. 8) Tie in 6-8 strands of Pheasant tail for wing case. 9) Tie in a small bunch of dubbing at start of wing case and tie off. 10) Push bead back over dubbing . 11) Tie thread in front of the bead. 12) Tie on small ball of dubbing and legs. 13) Pull wing case over bead and whip finish 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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