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How to Design a New Fishhook

Creating new hooks is about more than just sharpening and bending thin pieces of wire. And with all the hooks...

Tips for Hackling Dry Flies

In this and the following two tips, we share ideas about using dry fly hackle. Why spend so much time...

Beginner's Corner, Coldwater Patterns, Featured, Technique

Reader Favorites – Summer 2019

A Very Special Reader Favorite [by Dave Klausmeyer] I’ll tell you a secret: Editing Reader Favorites is the last thing...

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Para-welded Hackle

Cul de canard is one of the most important feathers for tying high-floating dry flies. Try this method for creating...

Coldwater Patterns, Featured

QUICK FLY: Partridge & Orange

Tie a Perfect Hare’s-Ear Nymph [by Al Ritt] The Partridge & Orange is a historically significant pattern. Wet flies are...

Coldwater Patterns, Featured

QUICK FLY: Hare’s-Ear Nymph

THE HARE’S EAR NYMPH IS AN ICONIC PATTERN It is very “buggy” and imitates many food sources found in many...

Beginner's Corner, Featured