Fly Tying

Method #6: Burned Wings Many tyers find cutting wings to be a somewhat tedious process and prefer instead to shape them by using one of the commer...

Wrapped Fur-strip Body Cross-cut rabbit strips are used with this technique (as shown in the main sequence below) to produce streamer patterns such...

Wing Feathers   Like a human arm, a bird wing consists of three jointed sections, which correspond in human anatomy to the upper arm, the forearm,...

Gills Gills, particularly on nymph patterns, are not an anatomical feature that most American tyers typically seek to imitate in much detail. There...

A large number of tyers prefer this approach; it is quite simple and forms a symmetrical dressing since the hook shank runs through the center of t...

Affixing materials to the sides of the hook shank or fly body is one of the most common techniques for forming legs and is used on a variety of pat...

  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...

As a Fly designer, I strive to create new flies or improve on existing patterns to solve a problem, not just to make something new for the sake of ...

“Those of us who will not in any circumstances cast except over rising fish are sometimes called ultra-purists and those who occasionally will try ...

One of the joys of fly tying is finding new materials to create unique flies. A new material might give that older pattern a unique look that will ...