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Quill Body Frenchie
The Frenchie is a competition fly popularized in France. Tying is described in Mrogan Lyle’s book Simple Flies. My buddies and I are going to fish the Driftless Area in Wisconsin, the home of the Pink Squirrel, and I tied these to try. The Frenchie has a pink hot spot also.
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Polish Hand Stripped Quills
The herl in and just below the eye of a peacock feather can be used to form the segmented body of small flies. The quills are flat and distinctly marked giving the fly a realistic abdomen. You can easily make your own. However, if you don’t want to or don’t have the time, they are available commercially.
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Dewey Freeman
The Sowbug was a big success. There were over one hundred fly tiers and hundreds of visitors. Saturday was by far the busiest day. It was an opportunity to visit old friends such as Captain Unk Smith, Fishy Fullum and others. But just as important to a make new friends. However, as I looked around, I could not help but notice the vast the majority of the tiers were grey headed, if they had any hair at all. I thought I would take this opportunity to profile some of the younger tiers and vendors.
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Mike George Fly Tying
I posted this fly in 2010. Since then the video has been viewed 10,243 times.
The Gurgle Pop is a foam popper that is deadly on Bream and Bass. I have caught hundreds of Bass on this fly in the Boundary Waters. The fly is easy to tie.
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Green Lantern
At the Sowbug two years ago, I was tying a Green Lantern Soft Hackle fly. This fly is described in Allen McGee’s excellent book Fly Fishing Soft-Hackles. When I had finished the fly, a spectator said, “Do you want me to show you the correct way to tie a soft hackle?”
20In 2016, David Weingold and I drove to Winnsboro, Louisiana to attend Harry Boyd’s 2 1/2 day rod making class. In 2 1//2 days you make a bamboo rod blank from scratch and leave with the finished blank with ferrules attached ready to complete at home.
150Welcome to BugCrafters.com. Previously, I had the Web Site on one server and the Blog on another. But recently the Blog accounts and domaine were cancelled (my automatic renewal expired). Well, I have redesigned the Site to hold Static and Blog pages. Think I have everything working. All the old pages are back as well as the Beginner Flies and Methods use to tie them. I have checked all the links and they seem to be working. If you find a broken link, please let me know and I will fix it. The Blog is on its own page. Unfortunately, I was not able to retrieve the old post. Please feel free to comment, Like, and Share.
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