Tying a Green-tailed Kate McLaren
Tying the Green-tailed Kate McLaren, a popular variant in Scotland of the Kate McLaren, which has a golden pheasant crest tail. Fished on the ...
Tying the Claret Bibio
Tying the Claret Bibio, a simple variant of a classic traditional bob fly, which was first created by Major Charles Roberts at Burrishoole, in ...
Making the most of a golden pheasant head
Making the most of a golden pheasant head (or neck), including crest (topping) feathers and tippet feathers, and different dyed versions; commonly used as tails ...
Tying a full throat hackle
Tying a full, swept-back throat hackle for wet flies and salmon flies by converting a full hackle using placed turns of thread. ...
Plucking mole fur from a skin
How to pluck out mole fur from a skin so it can be used to touch dub a waxed thread as on the Waterhen ...
Pinch-and-loop for perfect winging
How to use the pinch-and-loop technique to position a wing and other materials exactly in place on the hook-shank. ...
Matching hackle tips as a tail
How to match up and pair hackle tips as a long tail as on saltwater Deceiver, poppers, sliders and tarpon flies. ...
Matching feather-slips for wet fly winging
How to match up and pair wing slips - mallard, teal, starling – for dry fly and wet fly winging on floes such as Wickham's ...
Tying a golden pheasant crest feather tail
How to tie a golden pheasant crest feather tail, so it sits nicely, in proportion, with an upward curve at the rear. ...
