A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
A family-oriented fly-fishing club covering the Port Macquarie Hastings region, NSW.
Explore more specialised fly-tying techniques, from spinning and trimming hair to working with feathers, adding eyes and constructing particular fly features. Develop your skills and discover new ways to work with tying materials.
Learn how to prepare, stack, spin and trim elk hair for durable, buoyant dry flies. In this demonstration, Al Beatty shares practical techniques for removing underfur, measuring hair, controlling thread tension and achieving an even flare. Master the basics of working with elk hair for neater, better-balanced flies.
Detailed instructions on how to use large feathers on small soft hackles. A clever technique for utilising oversized feathers on small soft tackle flies involves isolating the feather’s tip to create a triangular tie-in anchor. By extending the feather’s fibres…
A quick primer on the tools, techniques and materials used when spinning deer hair.
The Freshwater Weed Guard is most commonly used on bass flies and mouse patterns. But it is not only used on freshwater flies, it is often used on redfish spoon flies as well. The freshwater weed guard is considered a…
Properly spinning and shave-shaping deer hair is one of the most challenging in fly tying, but the fish attracting successes of patterns utilising it make it an imperative to learn “how”. Patterns using the spun deer hair technique are generally…