Archaeological Fly Tying

David Senström ties Rheads Brown Drake from Louis Rhead's 1916 book "American trout-stream insects : a guide to angling flies and other aquatic insects alluring to trout"

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If tying just the right shuck of Z-Lon onto your Sparkle Dun makes you feel one with the fish, by all means, follow your bliss

          Biot BWO Sparkle Dun - Fly: Bruce Salzburg, Photograph: Hans Weilenmann

Matt Labash waxes poetically on fishing vs tying.

Because here, the fishing vs. tying debate rears its head again, this time under the favorite refuge of fishing snobs and scoundrels-entomology. The former (fly fishermen) always feeling guilty and inadequate if they don’t become the latter (fly tiers/bug experts). But to ask a very basic yet heretical question: why?

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Deceiver/Flatwing Comparison

Picked up the link to this video on a comment posted by Joe Cordiero on Way Upstream.

Flies as Art

The Fly Tying Team brings you some of the finest fly photography on the interwebs.

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Big Ass Musky Fly

Via: Big Pike Flies as a Way of Life

Roth Angling

Since 1988 Mark Roth has specialized in designing framed fly plates, shadowbox kits, and custom fly framing for shops, fly collectors, the American Museum of Fly Fishing and fellow anglers.

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