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A – Z of fly tying skills
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Dry fly wings
Articulated popper head
Hackle – fabricate a hackle
Eyes – Plastic bead chain
Adding a lead split shot to the hook shank
Fly tying skills - Full List
Adding a lead split shot to the hook shank
Adding weight to a fly
Anti snag guards – “bass” weed guards
Anti-snag guards – “tropical” double weed guards
Articulated popper head
Bead heads – adding weight or eyes to a fly
Bending hackles
Body segments on flies
Booby eyes made from bean bag beads
Brush type wings – deerhair
Burnt monofilament eyes
Closed cell foam bodies
Coils or springs as indicators for nymphing rivers
Dahlberg diver type tails
Deer hair – brush type wings
Deer hair – hot legs
Deer hair – spun bodies
Deer hair – tails
Deer hair – uses in fly tying
Deer hair – posts for parachute dun emergers
Divided hackle or hair tails
Down wings – dry fly
Dry fly – hackle
Dry fly proportions
Dry fly upright divided hair and hackle wings
Dry fly wings
Dubbing – loop method of dubbing
Dubbing – making dubbing from wool
Dubbing – two different techniques
Dubbing – the single strand method
Dumbbell eyes
Epoxy
Eyes
Eyes – booby eyes from bean bag beads
Eyes – dumbbell, real eyes, sink chain eyes and glass rattle eyes
Eyes – monofilament eyes
Eyes – Plastic bead chain
Feather slip wings – dry fly
Feather slip wings – wet fly
Feather tip wings – dry fly
Fly tiers pinch
Foam beetle hackle legs
Glass rattle eyes
Glossary of terms
Hackle – ‘beard’ type legs
Hackle – dry fly
Hackle – fabricate a hackle
Hackle – legs for foam beetles
Hackle – wet fly
Hackle, hair and synthetic tails for dry and wet flies
Half hitches & multiple hitches
Hook – description & correct placement in the vice
Hook – winding thread onto the hook
Hooks – holding mechanics (ceteris parabus)
Hooks – selecting the right hook
Hooks – understanding them
Hot legs – deerhair
Killer type flies
Knitted trout flies
Knotted pheasant tail barbule legs
Legs
Legs – flat over thorax legs
Legs – hackle ‘beard’ type
Loop method of dubbing
Monofilament eyes
Multi hitches by hand
Multiple hitches done with a biro (remove the refill first)
Neat thread heads
Palmering hackles
Parachute fly- post and hackle
Peacock herl – roping peacock herl
Proportions – dry fly
Proportions – trout flies
Proportions – wet fly
Real eyes
Roping peacock herl
Roping peacock herl
Segments – body segments on flies
Single hitches done with a biro (remove the refill first)
Single strand method of dubbing
Sink chain eyes
Spun bodies – deer hair
Synthetic fibers
Tag tails
Tails
Tails – dahlberg diver type tails
Tails – deer hair tails
Tails – divided hackle or hair
Tails – tying in a tag tail
Tails – woolly bugger tails / flash on the outside
Thread heads
Tropical double weed guards
Trout fly proportions
Understanding hooks
Upright divided hair and hackle wings – dry fly
Weed guards – bass
Weight – adding weight to a fly
Wet fly – hackles
Wet fly – proportions
Wet fly – wings
Wings – dry fly down wings
Wings – dry fly feather slip wings
Wings – dry fly feather tip wings
Wings – wet fly feather slip wings
Wings on flies
Wings – dry fly upright divided hair and hackle wings
Wings – wet fly wings
Woolly bugger hackles
Woolly bugger type tails
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