Tying Tuesday: Four Flies to Fight ...

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It’s late January, the rivers are locked up or operating grey, and should you’re like most of us, you’ve been staring out the window questioning if you’ll really feel a tug on the road once more. Cabin fever is actual, however so is the remedy: a well-lit vise, a heat beverage, and some hours of wrapping thread.

This week’s Tying Tuesday has no central thread (so to talk). We’re not constructing a matched hatch field or prepping for a selected journey. As an alternative, we’ve pulled collectively 4 movies that caught our consideration—an eclectic combine spanning a meditative and articulated tackle the most well-liked streamer on the planet, a western information staple, a tarpon fly repurposed for Nice Lakes bass, and a quietly lethal caddis sample from probably the greatest within the enterprise. Name it a cabin fever sampler: one thing for each temper and each season to come back.

So clear off the desk, queue up the movies, and tie one thing new.

Articulated Woolly Bugger

Hook: Sizes #1 and #4
Thread: Rust
Bead: Burnt orange, 3.8mm
Tail: Marabou (browns, tans, olives)
Flash: Rootbeer Krystal Flash
Hackle: Golden olive
Rib: Wire
Trailer Wire: For articulation connection
Adhesives: Tremendous glue and UV Head Cement

Pat’s Rubber Legs

Hook: Risen 300’s dimension 10 (or related streamer/nymph hook, sizes 4-12)
Weight: Lead wire (.015)
Thread: Veevus 6/0 (brown)
Tails & Antennae: Bug Legs or Spanflex (brown or black)
Physique: Variegated Chenille (brown/yellow or espresso/black)
Legs: Bug Legs or Spanflex
Head Cement: Solarez Extremely Skinny UV Resin or Sally Hansen Arduous as Nails