CDC feathers and how to select them is a short article dedicated to beginners in fly tying. CDC is known also under the name cull de canard and are from ducks ( but you can found them on different waterbirds like goose, swam, water-hen and so on ). These feathers are not so many around ...
Synthetic quill is an alternative at different kind of natural quill . Peacock quill a material very popular in tying is difficult to obtain in good quality, is limited at length, is delicate and not so easy to work with it. Synthetic materials are more and more popular because are easy to find, relatively cheap ...
This wooden tool is made for those who love to work with CDC flies. It will help tying flies much easy and faster. It is a piece of noble wood carefully hand crafted with channels in different sizes dedicated for small, medium and large CDC feathers. So lets start tying a CDC ...
Hi guys, Here is another nymph that I love to have in my box when I go for fishing in June and July. In some parts like in Italy, this model works from end of April. Is fun to tie, a little bit demanding when the body is made but is very effective. Materials: Hook Demmon G ...
Catgut nymphs are used for many years in competition fishing by Polish and Czech anglers. For a long period of time this material was kept as a secret material. But a while ago, from aprox 4-5 years , the secret was revealed and the catgut nymphs started to be more and more popular ...
Hi guys, We tested 2 models from Stonfo called Stonfo hackle Plier: The grey on is for larger feathers and can be used also for making bodies with dubbing ropes: The black one is smaller and is perfect for delicate feathers: The design is interesting and I consider this Stonfo approach very good. They made a very good tool: ...
This article " Tying flies herls with biots" is about how to use and how to tie in the proper way with these materials. As you know, in tying world a lot of interesting materials are used. Feathers are in top 3 list but even so, they are mostly used for making wings and hackles. Feathers ...
After 40 year age is starting to be more and more difficult to follow small flies on water. Our first step is to increase the size of the fly. Sometimes is very frustrating because the number of catch is reduced drastically but dry fly fishing is our passion and is difficult to renounce. Grayling fishing ...
Emu feathers deserve a special place in fly tying world. These feathers are not so popular between tiers probably because is not easy to find them. Some shops stock them and a pack with these feathers should be in all fly tying kits because Emu feathers has an interesting structure that suits for fly tying: ...
"Hairs and pelts - restoring deer curved hair fibers" is a short article and useful for every tier who wants to learn some tricks. Just a few words about this material: Is well known that deer hair like elk hair is widely used in fly tying. Deer hair (especially the Winter deer hair) is used for tying ...
