Video: A Primer on Natural Dubbing Materials

There are lots of choices when it comes to natural dubbing materials, but do you know the differences between, say, rabbit, beaver, muskrat, or angora? Tim offers a quick take on each, highlighting its best uses for fly tiers. As you build your . . .

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Video: How to Tie Shenk’s Minnow

In this week’s video from Tightline Productions, Tim Flagler walks you through the process of tying the Shenk’s White Minnow, created by Pennsylvania legend Ed Shenk. It’s a simple streamer pattern that imitates a variety of baitfish, such as creek . . .

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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: Understanding Rubber Legs

This week, Tim walks you through the many options for rubber legs, which are used on many kinds of patterns. He shows you how legs are packaged and why you’d choose one style over another. From connected round-rubber legs to flex materials that . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Cinnamon Flying Ant

The Cinnamon Ant has long been one of my “go-to” patterns, from May through September, so I was excited to see that Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions featured the fly in this week’s . . .

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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 Synthetic Clouser Minnow

In the decades since Pennsylvania icon Bob Clouser created his minnow pattern, countless variations have appeared, most of which catch plenty of fish. In fact, Lefty Kreh claimed to have caught an astonishing 63 species of fish on Clousers. In this . . .

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Video: Macrame Cord for Parachutes?

This week, Tim looks into something that he hears a lot in the comment of any video featuring a parachute. Will craft-store macrame cord work in place of the polypropylene yarn you buy in the fly shop? It turns out that you need to do some . . .

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