Hello all,
I just started my adventure last Tuesday with a beginning fly
tying class at Bentleys Outfitters in Bloomington Minnesota.
I took the plunge before the class and bought a vice (Renzetti Traveller) and some materials to tye the first fly in class (wooley Bugger) the week before my class started.
I like to dive into new things and give things a go before instruction, I like to call it pre-work.
My first Wooly Bugger looked well wooly but not in the correct manner but when I...
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HOOK: Daiichi 2461 size 1 or 1/0 TAIL: Dark brown or dark olive rabbit strip, tied in as a tail at the shank of the hook and pulled forward over two-thirds of the hook length. BODY: Remnant of rabbit strip HACKLE: Copper Hackle Flash wound through the rabbit strip. Olive schlappen or black emu is good as a substitute COLLAR: Large mallard flank WING: Abundant copper Flashabou topped with a great deal of holographic green or bullfrog Flashabou. HEAD: Dark olive wool or Australian opossum...
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