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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie thread on at mid shank. Wind thread back to on hook. 2) Tie on tail of orange hackle fibers . 3) Wind thread back to eye of hook making a smooth under body. 4) Tie on golden tinsel at eye of hook. 5) Wrap tinsel back to tail and then wrap tinsel back to eye of hook, making 2 layers of tinsel. 6) Tie on orange hackle and make a neat collar. 7) Tie on wing of 2 golden pheasant tips, shinny side out. 8) Wrap a neat head and whip finish. 9) Place fly in clear Christmas ornament globe and glue the mono to the cap. This can be done by removing the cap from the ornament and pushing the fly into the ornament ( hook eye first). Now push the mono through the hole in the cap and snap the cap back in place. Pull on the mono until the fly is centered in the ornament and tape the mono in place. Now put a spot of glue on the mono and the cap ( I use a hot glue gun or epoxy) and cut excess mono. |
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When I was 13 my parents gave me a fly fishing outfit for my birthday. That year I spent a lot of time trying to fly fishing on our local trout stream. I caught nothing the whole summer. My dad, not being a fisherman, couldn't understand how I could keep going back day after day. One day a friend of his a work suggested we visit Carl Coleman who had a fly fishing store in the basement of his house. We went to Carl's and bought a fly tying kit, and Carl told us of a man who lived in my neighborhood named Lynn Holt who might help me tie some flies. That winter, Lynn graciously let me come over to his house on Wednesday nights to tie flies. The very first trip that next spring I caught my first Trout. Lynn did not ask for anything for all the lessons he gave me, he did it for the love of the sport. He was passing on a gift that will last me a lifetime.
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