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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Place bead on hook and mount in vice. 2) Tie in wood duck tail at bend of hook. 3) Tie in fine gold wire for rib on underside of hook. 4) Take 2 strands (1 of each color) of the 4 strand embroidery thread and tie it along the shank of the hook. Tie the dark thread along the front side and the light thread along the back. 5) Taper body with tying thread and tie off. 6) Tie a single over hand knot with embroidery thread to start the taper of body. 7) Use a Knit Picker to weave the abdomen. 8) Tie in new thread for thorax . 9) Dub Thorax with Hares Ear. 11) Whip finish head behind bead. Note : My first trials with this fly were on the Wiscoy. I fished it in size #18 on the no kill section, in late may, it worked very well! This was also very productive fly in size #14, during the hendrickson hatch this year , on Oatka. |
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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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