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2. Fly tying - Wikipedia

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   Fly tying workbench Illustrative selection of modern fly tying tools Whip finisher Hackle plyers Various tools enable and optimize fly tying. Skip Morris, a professional fly tyer, lists the essential tools as being a vise to hold the hook of the fly to be tied, bobbin holders , hackle pliers, hackle gauges, work lights and magnifying glass to ...

3. Sakasa Kebari - Wikipedia

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   This fly is used by another tenkara master, Katsutoshi Amano. It is very similar to the Ishigaki Sakasa Kebari but uses a pheasant feather instead of a rooster hackle. The pheasant feather is more supple and webbier and gives the fly a different action when in the water. Mr. Amano is one of the longest living practitioners of tenkara in Japan.

4. Carrie G. Stevens - Wikipedia

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   Carrie Gertrude Stevens (1882–1970) was an American fly fisher and fly lure tier from Madison and Upper Dam, Maine, and the creator of Rangeley Favorite trout and salmon flies. Self-taught in the art of fly tying, Stevens invented the Grey Ghost Streamer, an imitation of the Smelt, Osmerus mordax. Stevens' flies received national and ...

5. Fully dressed flies - Wikipedia

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   Salmon fly hook: Thread: black: Tail: usually feather fibers (i.e. tippets, hackle) Body: usually natural or light color dyed from rabbits, seal, and muskrat. Wing: the most complicated and intricate part; usually made from feathers and tips of feathers (i.e. turkey, duck, bustard, jay) either separate feathers or married feathers. Usually the ...

6. Artificial fly - Wikipedia

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   Artificial flies are constructed by fly tying, in which furs, feathers, thread or any of very many other materials are tied onto a fish hook. [ 1 ] Artificial flies may be constructed to represent all manner of potential preys to freshwater and saltwater fish , including aquatic and terrestrial insects, crustaceans , worms , spawn , small ...

7. Cul de canard - Wikipedia

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   The use of CDC's in fly fishing originated from the Jura Mountains during the 1920s where fly fishermen used this feather in dry flies to aid buoyancy in a particular pattern called Moustique. It took until the 1980s for popular use of this feather within a whole range of patterns.