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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. 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.

5. Cockfighting - Wikipedia

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   Cockfighting is illegal but widespread in Iraq. The attendees come to gamble or just for the entertainment. A rooster can cost up to $8,000, or ₹23,000.00. The most-prized birds are called Harati, which means that they are of Turkish or Indian origin, and have muscular legs and necks. [70]

6. 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 ...

7. Fletching - Wikipedia

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   Feather fletching – these are shield cut with barred red hen feathers and a solid white cock. Fletching is the fin -shaped aerodynamic stabilization device attached on arrows , bolts , darts , or javelins , and are typically made from light semi-flexible materials such as feathers or bark .