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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: June 2008

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The Sexiest Fly Tying Vise Ever? Meet the Special Edition Master Fly Tying Vise from Renzetti. I walked around the 2007 Fly Fishing Retailer in Denver for a full day. My feet were tired of the concrete floor and I thought I'd seen it all. I was ready to hit the town and kick back with industry types. As I was heading for the exit, I was stopped dead in my tracks, not by a new fly rod or a drift boat, but a fly tying vise. When I first saw the advertisement for the Special Edition Master Vise. Advanced ro...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: October 2008

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Fly Recipe: Calimari con Super Spey. Beyond the Bug has come a long way. Since we started blogging in March. Thanks. To the loyal followers of the site for clicking in and taking a look! Heretofore, we haven't really posted any fly recipes for the fly designs we explore on these pages, but that's about to change. We've had about a zillion requests for a fly recipe for the squid fly. Featured in our very first post. Calimari con Super Spey, a squid fly for steelhead and stripers. Wapsi UTC GSP 200 deneir.

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: A (Very) Short History of the Tube Fly

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A (Very) Short History of the Tube Fly. Ian McNemar's Practitioner-style prawns. Tied on tubes over the Thanksgiving Holiday have been a hit with readers. Given the excitement tube flies have and continue to generate among modern fly tyers. It might be useful to take a moment to review the history of tube flies and a short list of their more attractive features and advantages. So, everyone’s talking about them: tube flies! The first tube flies were tied in 1945 by Winnie Morawski. First and foremost, tub...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: November 2008

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Dear Mr. Minister, Let us fish the Skeena. For those of you out there who dream about your chance to wet a fly in the mighty waters of British Columbia's Skeena River system, you may have to keep on dreaming. Recently, the Ministry of Environment in British Columbia. Has drafted and proposed a new Angling Management Plan (AMP). For the Skeena River steelhead fishery (you can find and read the plan in its entirety here: http:/ wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/ske/qws/. Why should anglers care? Well, not exactly. And has...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: All Mashed Up: Bootleg Flies

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All Mashed Up: Bootleg Flies. Progress and development in fly tying (aside from the really ground-breaking stuff) resembles the pirate-minded bootlegging of. The post-modern bastardized-pop world of digital music. Mashups, smashups, cutups, and boots, are tracks that combine the rythym and vocals of different pop songs to create new, Frankenstein-ed creations. Some love them, some hate them, but it seems they're here to stay. Tender Umbrella," Party Ben, Rihanna vs. General Public. By ingeniously combini...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: February 2009

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Fly Recipe: Ian's Whiplash Prawn. Well, Ian McNemar has been logging some hard hours at the vise lately. He's been caught up in the world of tube flies. Now for a while, and it looks like the obsession is paying off. Here are two variations of his newest tube pattern, a fly he calls the Whiplash Prawn. I think he likes Metallica. Ian's Purple Whiplash Prawn. HMH thick wall micro tubing nested with clear HMH hybrid tubing. Pink angora goat dubbing. Small oval silver tinsel. Pink angora goat dubbing. Tende...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: August 2008

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And now, pinch hitting for the Bronze Brad's Brat Steelhead Fly.". The heat of summer is dwindling, it's nearly time to start thinking about. Pennant races in the American and National Leagues. And anglers everywhere know its about time to get after those. Rowdy Pacific Northwest steelhead. As they sniff their way back home from a few years in the salt. With the majesty of a trip to the Umpqua looming, perfecting the classic PacNW hairwing steelhead fly has become the ultimate pursuit of late. Like ringn...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: July 2008

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A Steelhead Fly With A Suitcase Of History. In the art of fly tying, it's always a gas to breathe new life to an old standard. Even if you don't play much with the recipe at all). That's what Ian McNemar has done with The Golden Demon, a traditional salmon and steelhead fly pattern that originated in England probably around the turn of the 20th Century. Ian has recently been inspired by. John Shewey's brilliant work on steelhead fly tying. Today, The Golden Demon is quite effective. In the Atlantic salmo...

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beyond the bug | modern fly tying & design: March 2009

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Bootleg Fly: Green Butt Purple Skunk vs. Silver Hilton. Well, we set our clocks forward, the days are getting longer, March Madness is nearly upon us, and spring is in the air. All this, of course, means summer steelhead aren't far behind. I'm still inspired by. Mash-up DJs and bootleg fly patterns. And longing for some summer steelhead action. So I decided to combine two of my favorite low water summer patterns. A little Green Butt Purple Skunk. A bit Silver Hilton. I can't wait for the dog days. Tiemco...