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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie on thread near hook bend. 2) Tie a very small ball of dubbing at hook bend. 3) Tie on two amber goose biots so that they splay out on either side of the dubbing ball. 4) Tie a dark brown piece of small V-rib on the far side of the hook. Tie an amber piece of v-rib on the near side of the hook. Do not cut the tag ends of the v-rib, wrap over then with thread (close wraps) for 3/4 of the hook shank. This will give you a nice even body to weave over. 5) Tie off and cut thread. 6) Tie on Uni-stretch near hook eye and wrap a nice even underbody of Uni-stretch down to hook bend and back to hook eye. Tie off and cut Uni-stretch. 7) Use a knit fixer to weave the body (2/3 of the hook shank) with the v-rib. 8) Tie on thread and tie off v-rib. 9) Tie on thin skin wing case. 10) Wrap thread to hook eye and tie on goose biot antenna. 11) Wrap thread back to the base of the wing case and dub the thorax back to hook eye. 12) Tie on partridge legs (see note). 13) Pull wing case over thorax and tie off. 14) Whip finish head. Note : Tying Instructions |
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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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