Video: How to Tie the Meat Whistle

Famed Colorado tier John Barr is most famous for his Copper John, but many streamers lovers are also fans of the streamer/jig hybrid known as the Meat Whistle. Barr originally designed the pattern for bass fishing–sort of a fly-fishing take on the . . .

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How to Best Imitate Isonychia Nymphs

To simplify their identification, mayfly nymphs have been divided into four groups–burrowers, crawlers, clingers, and swimmers–and the name of each group offers some insight into the. . .

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Video: How to Tie the DDH Leech

The DDH Leech is one of my favorite patterns, and I’m excited that Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions has featured it in his weekly tying video. Created by Canadian angler Stu Thompson in the mid-1990s, the pattern has since been used to catch . . .

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Video: How to Build a Tapered Thread Body

Building a tapered thread body on a small hook, for a fly such as a Zebra Midge, is a fairly simple process, but things can go wrong pretty easily. You don’t want to end up with a misshapen or fat . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Golden Woolly Bugger

There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of variations on the Woolly Bugger over the years, but every once in awhile you come across one that produces when nothing else will. The guys from The New Fly Fisher had just such an experience with this . . .

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Video: How to Tie Uke’s Brown Bug

Every once in awhile, you come across a fly pattern that just seems to work for you, in a variety of situations. Last summer, while fishing in northwestern Montana with Linehan Outfitting Company, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions was introduced . . .

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Video: How to Tie Mike’s Honey Ant

One summer afternoon, we had a reception on the back lawn here at Orvis HQ, and we were treated to a massive flying-ant hatch. Bugs were flying into people’s hair, eyes, and ears, and it was kind of frustrating to be in the middle of a conversation and have . . .

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