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Fly Tying

Anatomy of a fly

 

The object of this site is to help you enjoy your fishing and with this in mind the objective of this session is to convince those of you who have not tied a fly yet that it can be done and those who already do I hope something on here helps you improve or encourages you to develop your own patterns. Please feel free to take any of my patterns and change them however you want, I did with other peoples.

Check out the link to my Video Guides for help with some of the basics of fly tying and some patterns from start to finish.

To Get started you will need a basic toolkit and a vice to hold the Hook. There is a massive choice of tools and vice on the market ranging from pocket money pricing to top off the range equipment with vices costing in the hundreds of pounds. My choice is to buy what fits my budget and asvise you do the same, It won't make you tie better flies at the start, why not master the basics first then, if you mus,t go buy the best you can afford.

The Basics I would recommend, other than the vice,would be the tools I find indespensible when I am at the vice.

You will find that this collection of tools will grow but to start this will suffice. You will see these in use in the Video Guides .


Fly Tying guides
 

 

Video Step by step

  1. Foam Beetle
  2. Flexi-Dokey
  3. Shadow Snatcher
  4. Deer hair Sedge Emerger (DHSE)
  5. Hawthorn Fly
  6. Big Ugly Daddy
  7. Duck a l'Orange
  8. Black Drake

Step by Step
 

  1. The Pheasant Tail Nymph
  2. A Simple Black Buzzer
  3. The Diawl Bach
  4. Green Goosebuzzer by Caddisman (Tony Downing)
  5. Cats Whisker
  6. Greenwell's Glory by Caddisman (Tony Downing)
  7. Ginger Quill traditional wet fly
  8. The Rainbow Buzzer
  9. Half Back Nymph by Caddisman (Tony Downing)
  10. Humpy Shipman's Emerger
  11. Little Olive Watchet (A north country Wet Fly by Tony Downing)
  12. The Baigent's Brown by Caddisman (Tony Downing)
  13. The Hydrosyche by Caddisman (Tony Downing)

Video Technique

  1. Starting a fly
  2. Whip Finish Tool
  3. Hand Whip Finish
  4. Winging a wet fly
  5. Tying an extended Deer Hair Body
  6. Spinning Deer Hair

Techniques

  1. Using a whip finish tool
  2. Deer Hair Extended Body (May fly/Daddy Long Legs)

Hints and Tips

  1. Preparing Dry Fly Wings
  2. The Anatomy of a fly
  3. Feather Guide

 



 


  

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Fly tying by Tony Downing

 

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