No. 9. The Spirit Fly. Tied by Syd Glasso circa early 1980s.   In 2018, Charlie Brumwell, Steve Hanson and I were sorting through Ron Grantham's f...

Field and Stream writer Patrick McManus once said that, “There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.” On the spectrum of bait lobbers an...

Lessons from the Past - an excerpt   Salmon flies developed from trout flies, and both were originally of a commonplace character and dull in app...

  Though restricted primarily to leech imitations, this fur-strip technique nonetheless produces a highly effective body. This body style, in whic...

Pulled Tinsel Body This technique has appeared in the work of Dick Talleur, who credits Matt Vinciguerra, a fly tying photographer, with the invent...

As explained in the preceding section, the tyer has options at various stages of dressing upright quill wings. The sequence that follows is primar...