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Vintage badger cape from Metz

Another gray day this Sunday. Time for some lazy Sunday tying. Yellow Partridge spider Orange dun spider variant Quill Gordon, as timeless a...

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I watched this video and I see a lot of resemblance with fly tying. Picking out the best hackle feather, deer hair or wood duck flank feathe...

Another year is ending. Can't remember years going so fast like during the pandemic. What shall the new year bring?

This Sunday afternoon I used Snowshoe rabbit foot hair for the wing & Red Fox fur for body. Does this make the fly a ‘Snowshoe-kill’?......

I acquired 11 traditional Catskill dry flies tied by the Dettes a few years ago. Getting them framed by the right craftsman was a no braine...

Last week we heard the sad news of the passing of Austin 'Mac' Francis, mostly known as the author of Catskill Fly Tier , Catskill R...

This Bashakill , a fly Mike Valla came up with, ribbed with olive (as the original was tied) and red floss.  Mike Valla says about this fly:...

The Bivisible's first appearance seems to be in the 1920's. The first time in writing about the Bivisible was by  Edward Hewitt  in ...

The Catskill. There seems to be some confusion how to tie it... Maybe it's because it's Sunday morning 😁 Two recipes for the Catski...

I don't know how and why but Kelly Galloup , more known for tying and fishing streamers, is now one of the largest sellers of (Whiting...

The Beaverkill is one of the most recognizable classic Catskill dry flies. Yet it started as an English wet fly before transforming into a d...

Tied the TMG (Teal, Macaw & Ginger , a Catskill style dry fly I came up earlier this year for the first time. This one is reinforced wit...

Al Troth’s Elk Hair Caddis from the book ‘ The Art of the Trout Fly ’ (Judith Dunham & Egmont van Dyck, 1988). This book showed me that ...

The hackle companies are strangely reluctant to provide some spare zip lock bags... André Frijlink of Frame Your Fly was kind enough to sen...

Sunday during the DAAFT meeting my friend Theo Bakelaar had some old Metz capes and saddles (‘commercial’ grade I think?) he wanted to get r...