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Flydressing

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Flydressing – Read my absorbing blog articles about the art of Fly Tying. Learn the philosophy of selecting and combining a range of fly tying materials into something unique and authentic.

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  • Flydressing
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The Fancy Flies of T.K. Wilson

During his service in the R.A.F. the well-known angler and author T.K. Wilson planned the idea of a book dedicated to the subject of “Fancy Flies”. Unfortunately, Wilson’s intended publication…
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  • 4 min
  • Flydressing
  • North Country Flies

Smoke Fly

Smoke Fly Back in the dim and distant past when I penned The North Country Fly. My purpose was to illuminate lesser known north country fly patterns. Hoping a modern…
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  • 3 min
  • Flydressing

Family Treasures

I follow in the family tradition of collecting rare fly-tying materials. It’s turned into an obsession. Some early collected materials date to the mid-1800s, whilst others date to the inter-war…
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  • 3 min
  • Flydressing

Material Changes

As a flytyer, I am always drawn to vintage auction lots that contain healthy proportions of tying materials and associated ephemera. More so if the auction lot is north country…
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  • 7 min
  • Flydressing
  • North Country Flies

Pearsall’s Gossamer Silk

It is safe to say that for the past century a certain brand of silk thread has become synonymous with the tying of traditional north country spiders. I am of…
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  • 11 min
  • Flydressing
  • North Country Flies

A Guide to Choosing North Country Hackles

A Guide to Choosing North Country Hackles It goes without saying that to dress the finest of flies, you need the finest of materials. And now thankfully, with the growth…
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  • 7 min
  • Flydressing

Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear

Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear The Gold Ribbed Hare’s Ear features one of flyfishing’s most ubiquitous dubbing materials and I can’t think of any other flytying material that is so adaptable as…
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Snipe Hackle for north country spiders
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  • 3 min
  • Flydressing

Snipe Hackles and North Country Spiders

Snipe Hackles (Gallinago gallinago & Lymnocryptes minimus) Snipe hackles are synonymous with the tying of north country spiders, and have along with waterhen and partridge become for many, the very…
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  • 2 min
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Woodcock Hackles & North Country Spiders

Woodcock Hackles (Scolopax rusticola) The Woodcock is one of those quintessential North Country spider hackles, that has due to its scarcity become often overlooked by modern flydressers. However, these secretive and…
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The dressing on the Smoke Fly found in An old notebook of north country spiders dating to 1900. And a modern example.
The last trout of the day. Small but perfectly formed…
Wharfedale brownie taken on a north country spider.
An evening prospecting for trout.
Two precious commodities.
Early morning trouting before the temperatures rise.
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