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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie on thread at hook bend. 2) Separate 1 strand of 4-ply sparkle yarn and tie in at hook bend. Tease sparkle yarn with comb or pet brush. 3) Tie a second piece of sparkle yarn underneath the hook. 4) Dub a full body with green dubbing over 2/3 of the hook shank. 5) Pull the sparkle yarn underneath the fly to the hook eye and make 1 thread wrap. Take a bodkin (needle) and pull the sparkle yarn away from the body so that it's very loose and tie off. Repeat this with the top sparkle yarn. 6) Tie in a Hungarian partridge hackle and make 2 wraps. 7) Take a 3/4-inch piece of 6lb mono and burn both ends to make eyes. Use tweezers to hold the mono. 8) Tie in the eyes near the hook eye with an X wrap. 9) Tie a small thorax of hare's ear and whip finish a neat head. Note : This fly is a cross between Gary LaFontaines Deep Pupa and Ian Martins Mono Eyed Caddis, both excellent patterns. It landed many nice trout for me last year. |
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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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