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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Wrap tapered underbody with lead tape, 2/3 the hook shank length. 2) Tie on thread in front of lead and wrap over lead to hook bend. 3) Form a dubbing with your thread. 4) Take a pheasant feather and cut off all the fibers on one side. Place all the fibers in your hand and roll them into a ball. A very tight ball. Now take the crumpled mess of feather and spread it out in the dubbing loop. Spin the loop with a dubbing twirl. 5) Wrap loop over lead and tie off. 6) Give the pheasant feather body a haircut to form cased caddis body. 7) Tie on white chenille at hook eye. 8) Wrap thread back to pheasant body. 9) Wrap chenille back to body and tie off. 10) Tie on legs, 2 at a time, working toward head. Legs are pheasant tail fibers pull from feather, use the curly part of the fiber as feet. 11) Tie off white thread. Tie on black thread and form head. Note : Oliver Edwards demonstrated this fly for Fred Vojt and I at the New Jersey fly fishing show. |
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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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