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Buying Saddle Hackle

Mar 16. 2021
Shopping What to look for when buying coarser saddle hackle - for saltwater and pike flies, for streamers, for salmon flies or other uses
Learn what to look for here
Video

North Country Hackles Part 2

Feb 28. 2021
North Country spider and soft hackle expert Robert L Smith in the second of his Partridge fly-tying videos showcases some of the rare and traditional soft hackle material used in the dressing of tr
Video

North Country Hackles Part 1

Feb 28. 2021
North Country spider and soft hackle expert Robert L Smith in the first of his Partridge fly-tying videos showcases some of the rare and traditional soft hackle material used in the dressing of tra
Video

Griffiths Gnat

Feb 12. 2021
Griffiths Gnats are a classic pattern that is very simple to tie and also very effective. These only require two materials besides the thread and hooks.
Video

Feather Anatomy Part 1

Feb 1. 2021
Wayne Luallen looks at the basic structure of a feather.
Video

Dry fly, hackle work and peacock quills

Jan 12. 2021
Hackle and peacock are to beautiful materials to work with . To have an compact and tidy hackle you need to clean the one side of the feather before tying.
Video

Red Hackle or Soldier Palmer

Aug 5. 2020
Perhaps one of the oldest patterns on earth. Mary Orvis Marbury leads off her 1892 book on the history of flies with this pattern that has spawned so many variations.
Video

Using Tapered Hackle

May 25. 2020
Learn to use rooster saddle hackle that is tapered in hook size from large at the base to small near the tip.
Video

Fabien Moulin's Deer Hair Parachute

Feb 21. 2020
Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.
Article

Moulin’s Deer Hair Parachute

Feb 21. 2020
Technique Swiss/Norwegian tyer Fabien Moulin stumbled upon a seemingly new way of creating a parachute hackle and wing in one.
See more here
Video

Making a George Grant Hair Hackle

Feb 18. 2020
Italian Giuseppe Finardi demonstrates how to weave a hair hackle for a George Grant nymph, as described in the article here: http
Video

Crackleback Variant

Jan 24. 2020
This quick and easy, but unusual attractor pattern is one well worth trying.
Video

The Real Birdman

Jan 9. 2020
The Real Birdman - The story of Tom Whiting and Withing Farms.
Video

Palmered Shipman's

Dec 9. 2019
A super quick and easy variant of the still water classic, that never grows old.
Video

Wrapping GP hackle by the stem

Aug 27. 2019
A short video showing how to easily tie in a golden pheasant hackle by the tip and wrapping it by the stem - rather than tying in the stem and grabbing the fragile tip.

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