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Sun May 18, 2008
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Tying Basics |
Starting
Off |
Tails/Bodies/Ribs |
Hackles |
Wings/Heads |
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The pleasures of fly fishing are
greatly enhanced when you use flies that you tie yourself.
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Hackles
The ability to tie flies is one of the fly fisher's greatest
assets.
 1.
Catch in the hackle feather just behind the eye.
Make four turns, using hackle pliers, then secure the
tip. |
 2.
Stroke the hackle fibres beneath the hook,
fastening them in place with turns of tying thread. |
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3.
Remove any hackle fibres still above the hook or
not lying back properly, finally, add a wing and whip
finish.
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| Dubbing
Loop Hackle |
 1.
With the body covering the rear two
thirds of the hook, insert a pinch of hare's fur into
a loop of tying thread.
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 2.
Take hold of the loop with a pair of
hackle pliers and twist it until the fur spins into a
fluffy rope. |
3.
Wind the fur over the hook up to the
eye, trim the thorax top and sides, but leave some
hairs beneath the hook.
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| Dry
Fly Hackle |
 1.
With the body complete prepare a cock hackle by
stripping the butt, leaving a short, bare stem. |
 2.
Catch in the hackle and take hold of the tip with a
pair of hackle pliers. Make three or four full turns. |
 3.
Ensure that the turns are butted together. Secure
the hackle tip, removing the waste end and tie off. |
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| Palmered
Hackle |
 1.
With body in place prepare a cock hackle by
stripping the butt, leaving a short bare stem, catch
in the hackle. |
 2.
Using pliers, wind the hackle down the body to the
bend. Ensure each turn is evenly spaced. |
 3.
Wind the ribbing material up through the hackle in
the opposite spiral. This will fix the hackle in
place. |
 4.
Remove excess hackle at
the bend and ribbing at the eye. Add a second slightly
longer fibred hackle at the eye. |
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