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  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Zelon Musk Midge

    If you're like me, any pattern that calls for a size 24 hook is a pattern best left to the experts. Tim Flagler's Zelon Musk Midge is a prime example. Video of Zelon Musk MidgeThis might be the simplest midge pattern I've ever seen. It consists of two ingredients in addition to the thread, as…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Ribbing a fly

    Fly ribbing is not only a great way to "segment" a nymph body, but, as Tim Flagler points out below, it's a great way to protect delicate materials, like peacock herl. Video of How to Rib a Fly and WhyI tie a few nymphs with wire ribbing, and even add wire to simple streamers, like…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Using a whip-finisher

    When I got my first beginning fly-tying kit all those years ago, most of the tools made sense. But there was this weird loopy, wiry thing that just confounded me. It was a whip-finishing tool. I set it aside and when I tied my first fly (likely a horrible-looking Woolly Bugger that, on its best…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Hit the tail light

    In New Zealand, where the waters are typically very clear, and the trout are always very smart, the exact spot where a fly lands near a trout can matter down to the inch. The Kiwis will tell you that as you are casting upstream at a fish's position, it's always best to miss to the…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Be a lurker

    Editor's note: For more great tips on fishing from TU members across the country, get your copy of TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight shipping. This time of year, when I plan out some distant winter fishing trips to places warmer and farther south, I become a lurker. Not the creepy, "Psst! Hey…