A place to discuss the collecting and tying of classic flies, the tyers who made them famous, the tools, materials and techniques they used as well as the waters they were designed for. While classic is generally used to describe old things, classic is also used in the sense of first class or in the highest form. Therefore a fully dressed Salmon Fly, or a Carrie Stevens Streamer are just as much classics as a Chernobyl Ant would be. Enjoy the forum.
I recently did some casual research on various head coatings (as not all were Head cement ) on heavy cardboard. The cardboard was the back of one of...
Anyone tie or fish these? Sort of a cross between a Marinaro thorax and a Catskill Dry, with large rooster hackle tip wings. Though not exactly. Tied...
I'm increasingly attracted to simple flies. Something about the minimalist elegance of it all. I'm wondering what patterns you know of that have only...
I have yet to tie any of Neme's tiny soft hackle patterns. No matter how small the actual fly is, he ties his on a Tiemco 102Y, in sz 19, and claims...
I often wondered about the differences in deer hair for dries ever since the early 1980's when Bob Nastasi gave me 2 pieces of the coastal deer hair...
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