When you’re cutting fly-tying materials into thin strips–especially if you want to prepare for a bunch of flies–accuracy and consistency are the keys. If you cut well, your flies won’t be variable and you won’t waste . . .
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Video: How to Tie the Yuk Big
The Yuk Bug is the creation of Al Troth, who is best known for his Elk-Hair Caddis dry fly. But before he moved to Montana from his native Pennsylvania in 1973, Troth was probably familiar with Russell Blessing’s Woolly . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Use a Head-Cement Applicator Bottle
Head cement can be hard to control if you’re just applying it with the tip of your bodkin or something similar. Plus, the cement itself can thicken and become discolored if you leave the lid off the jar. Tim uses a specialized head-cement . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie Bastian’s Floating Caddis Emerger
Today, I learned of the passing of well-known Pennsylvania fly tier Don Bastian, who was known especially for his work to re-popularize wet flies. Anglers outside the Northeast may be familiar with Bastian for his . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Jiggly Pat’s
In this week’s video, Tim shows you how to create the Jiggly Pat’s, which features a rear body attached to the hook with a monofilament connection. Don’t worry that an articulated pattern is beyond your skills at the vise because Tim . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Use Half-Hitches with Your Tying Scissors, Part 2
Last week, Tim showed us how to use scissors to make half-hitch knots. This week, he offers a real-world tying example of why you would want to reverse your thread and how these half-hitches can help. You want elegant, . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie Alvin’s Simple Half and Half
Here’s another “guide-fly” lesson from Alvin Dedeaux of All Water Guides. Guide’s don’t want to use flies that are complicated or take a long time to tie because a client may lose a bunch of flies on any giver trip. The Half and . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Lightning Bug
In this week’s video from Tightline Productions, Tim shows you how to tie a Lightning Bug, offering a few tying tricks along the way. As usual, Tim’s goal is maximum efficiency in making sure each material stays in its place. The . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Make Half-Hitches with Your Tying Scissors
Lots of fly tiers like to use half-hitch knots to save their work or to finish off the fly’s head. As usual, Tim has a better, faster way to do this, which will be especially useful for those tiers who like to keep their scissors in their . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Frozen Fox
The color blue is a favorite among winter anglers, and this cool streamer looks made for icy waters. In this week’s video from Tightline Productions, Tim shows you how to tie a simple streamer, which can be tied in any color . . .
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