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Getting Started – trout dry flies

There are only really two types of flies dry flies and wet flies. A dry fly is any fly that is designed to be fished on or in the surface film of the water. Dry flies can however be divided into a number of logical categories.

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a b c of Fly Tying – Estuary & saltwater flats flies – module 5

The module has been designed so that as you tie each successive fly your skills will accumulate and be reinforced. It is therefore best if you tie the flies in the order presented.

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a b c of Fly Tying – Estuary & saltwater flats flies – module 4

The module has been designed so that as you tie each successive fly your skills will accumulate and be reinforced. It is therefore best if you tie the flies in the order presented.

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a b c of Fly Tying – Estuary & saltwater flats flies – module 3

The module has been designed so that as you tie each successive fly your skills will accumulate and be reinforced. It is therefore best if you tie the flies in the order presented.

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a b c of Fly Tying – Estuary & saltwater flats flies – module 2

The module has been designed so that as you tie each successive fly your skills will accumulate and be reinforced. It is therefore best if you tie the flies in the order presented.

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a b c of Fly Tying – Estuary & saltwater flats flies – module 1

This is the first module in the estuary and flats fly tying course and the three starting flies are 3 of my favourites yet not so hard to tie flies. Tie the flies in the order they are presented in the course so that you build a complete skill base.

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Black and peacock

Spider type flies like the Black and Peacock are very buggy and suggestive flies. Weather being used as a polaroiding fly, a static wet, one of the flies in a team of loch style flies, or a fly to cover rising fish spider type soft hackle flies may be taken as a snail, submerged beetle, drowned terrestrial, diving beetle or even a corixia. Alternatively the fish may just pick them up because of the movement of the soft hackle or the suggestive buggy nature of the overall shape.

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