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2013
Jan 14 THE SIMPLEST OF THINGS

Previous Tying Tips
What's Coming Wash Your Hands! Get More Flies from Your Materials Flash Dispensers Bodkin Cleaning Bench Clutter Storing Double-Edge Razor Blades Bullet Proof Your Herl Check Your Hooks Tying in Tinsel Separating Bucktail Controlling Your Hooks Thread Tricks Neat Bucktail Heads Fixing Un-Cured Epoxy Smoothing Silicon Coat Your Lead Forceps Epoxy Pallet Sizing Wing Slips Better, Easier Dry Fly Tails Taming Soft Hackle Biot Trees Preparing Wing Cases Practice Makes Perfect Blow 'em Up Drop Your Head Cement Thinner Cutting Lead, Wire and Heavy Mono Add Confidence When You Tie Easier Caddis and Muddler Heads Make Them Wiggle Make A Note Wing Posting Simplified Applying Head Cement in Tight Places Squeaky and Jumpy Bobbins Protect Your Pedestal Base Spool Tamers Get Control Over Static Preparing Soft Hackle, An Easier Way Cheap Fluorescent Parachute Posts Steaming Chenille Drying Wet Flies Making Stick-On Eyes Stick Dismounting Midges Profile Your Flies Talk to the Experts Cutting Bead Chain Save on Scud and Shrimp Backs Dry Flies That Really Float Use a Model Put Your Thread On A Diet Look in the Mirror Which Fly is Weighted? Stripping Quills Stripping Quills 2, The Sequel Taking the Frustration Out of Quills Quills and Durability Needle Your Flies Hang 'Em High Cover Your Hook Point Keep You Head Cement From Drying Out More On Magnets Hang It Faster Buggers Don't Throw Away Your Rejects Observing Others Posting Dry Fly Wings Substitute Fibbets Tying Off Parachutes Hang Up your Scissors Make Your Own Lanyard Splaying Hackles Hackling Bass and Other Hair Flies Aligning Your Hackles Cauterize Your Eyes Baitfish Have Eyes! Painted Eyes! Part 1 Painted Eyes! Part 2 Scissors Can Pick Up Hooks Overnight Wing Cases Fly Turning Wheel Keep Your Head Cement Bottle Lids From Sticking Bronze Peacock Herl Taming Mylar Eyes Bring an Old Friend to the Bench Shielded Hook Points Repairing Jungle Cock Eyes Bundle Your Tails What Is It? What Is It? - Answers Protect Your Scissor Tips Nasal Spray and Dubbing Fly Swap Mailers Safer Deer Hair Trimming Halford Wing Baskets Thank You Losing It? Dubbing Container Chenille Container Trimming Deer Hair Biot Bodies Velcro Bugs Goose Quill Bodies Rogues Gallery If It Isn't Written Wrong End Up Thinking Outside A Square Box Connections Cutting Bead Chain Care of Hackle/Keeping the Bugs Out Twisted Thread Really Dry Flies Anatomy of a Hook Bugaboos Vise Advice Weighted Nymphs How Do I? Easy Eyes Caddis Wings The Importance of a Good Manicure Beaded Mono Eyes Cheap Scud Backs Treating Tied Flies Weighted Poppers Centering Beaded Head Fly Tying Equipment and Materials Using Yarn to Secure Non-Lead Wire Free Fly Tins Velcro on a Stick Nearsighted Angler, Part 1 Nearsighted Angler, Part 2 Lock Wrap Marabou What's Dun? Tube Flies Treating Tied Flies In My Room, In My Room Wax for Fly Tying Rabbit Strips Quick Descent Dubbing One for the Road Dubbing Loop for Feathers Dubbing Loop, Basics Looping Hair Wings Multiple Dubbing Loop Wide Body Nymphs Fly Tying is Expensive - NOT Eureka! Post Its Laying a Weighted Keel Getting a Grip Thread Storage Half-Hitch Rule Hook Clip Storing Hooks and Stuff Peacock Eye Zip Kicker Securing Ribbing Dry Flies Burnt Wings for Caddisflies Fly Hook Comparison Charts Thread When Bad Things Happen Flip Flop Flies Sizing Beadheads Deer Hair Comb Two Quickies No-Twist Whip Beautiful Flies Peacock Herl Burnt Wings - Stoneflies Build A Better Bodkin Whip Finisher Tool Cheap Micro-fibbets Mayfly Proportions Use a Saddle Wrapping Wire Technique Dubbing Brush Two Tips for the Price of One Non-traditional Parachutes Tapered Parachutes Striping Quills A Cheap Tip A Hot Tip Reverse Tying Burnt Wings for Mayflies Scud Back Material Mono 'Gut' Eyes Peacock Swords Faux Bead Heads Bent Bobbins Ribbing (a better way, at least different) Smoother Floss Bodies How To Make a Wing Burner Peacock Chenille It's All In the Details Fly Tying Swaps What Does a Rotary Vise Really Do? Soft-Hackle (Spider) Flies DeFeo Style Throat Hackle Coloring Epoxy DeFeo Style Side-mounted Bundled-fiber Legs Shipping Tubes for Flies Bad Fly Beaded Thorax Flies About Thread Spools Improving Grip of Hackle Pliers Bobbins Cheap Salmon Hooks Thread Not Fancy Bodkins Sally Hanson Hard as Nails Revisited More Organization The Other Rayon Getting a Handle on Bluegills Making the Easy Door Knob Dubbing Loop Tool It is All In the Details Tying Thread for the "No See Em's Overcoming Obstacles Vise Station Side-Tray Hackle Guard My Evolved Workstation Customizing a Rotary Vise, Balance Customizing a Rotary Vise Handle A Neat Material Black Bead-Chain Eyes A Storage Idea for Hooks Noooo! My flybox is heading downstream...Without me More to Save Your Fly Box! Save Your Health? Coloring Epoxy Help Trimming Deer Hair Customizing a Rotary Vise Handle Spinner Wings Poor Man's Bug Viewing Box About Buying a Vise Easy Bobbin Threading Inexpensive Bobbin Threader Portable Tying Bench Two on Head Cement When The Lights Go Out Better Rubber Legs Glueing Rubber and Foam Check the Action Stir-Blended Deer Hair More Mono-Eyes Cutting Dried Hides Wire Tricks Emerger Wings The Third Hand Flaring Hair Solved Better than Mono Eyes! George Harvey Hackling Technique Portable Tying Box Conehead Tip Stick On Eyes Nice Thread Rack Strike Indicators Tying a Tag Mono Thread Keeping Epoxy Even Matuka Wings Using Thinner Thread A Tool for Bobbin Threading Lacquer Dubbing Wax Container Hook Finder Tailing Wet Flies Get the Tails Right Emerger Bodies Elk Hair Caddis, Palmer-Hackled Tip for Rotary Vises Tip for Catch and Recatch Hooks Preserving Silk Colour Feather-Hair Equivalents Treatment of Hair Dyeing Rooster, Hen, Saddles and Backs Degreasing Rooster Necks & Saddles Combing Deer Hair Yet Another Dubbing Technique Eyes on Flies Tips on Dying Check Your Bobbins Parachute Hackle Choosing Feathers Selecting Hooks for Streamers Organizing Beads Free Wire for Ribbing Fly Dryers Scrounge Time More on Wire Stacking Hair Three from Tap's Tips Your Local Dollar Store Vacuum Packing The Finger Tip Bending Rubber Legs Bobbin Tube is Fraying Thread Wings Twist While Hackling Biot Is Too Short For Body Length Tiny Soft-Hackle Flies Quill-Bodied Nymphs Sparkle Wing Caddis 3 Time Savers More Time Savers Time Savers, continued Time Savers, continued More Time Savers Yet More Time Savers Time Savers, continued More Saving Time Tips Beautiful Glass Bead Eyes Blending Dubbing Better Material Handling Steve's Vise - A vise you can build for $4.00 Slip Wings, Traditional English Method Recycled Plastic Fly Bodies and Hopper Legs Alternative Cement Method Ribbing Tips Have a Second Vise? Fly Pattern Categories Undressed Humpy Latex Bodies Tying With Chickabou and Soft Hackle Hand Position Yarn and Chenille Storage Things to Look for When Selecting a Hackle Magic Tools Primer Hanging Files Red Eyes Yarn/Chenille Storage Bobbin Hanger Double Edge Razor Blades Make Fine Feathered Friends Punch Eyes Two Simple Tips A Trio of Tips Going to the Grocery Store? Neat Dubbing and more Fly Drying Rack Tips for Woolly Buggers Why Flatten Thread? Tips for Glass Bead Heads Tips for Yarn Posts Tips for Boa Yarn Leech Mylar Wrapping Paper Cutting Help Easy Crease Fly Bodies Write Your Own Book Shooting Pool Break Your Thread Dubbing Tips Burnt Eyes Easier Rubber Legs More on Easier Rubber Legs Preparation, Wing Cases Unsticking Rod Parts Clark Spinning Block The Clothespin Vise Looks Aren't Everything Dumbbell Eye Help Tying Flashback Nymphs Loose Beadheads? Softer, Cleaner Hands Standardization of Hooks Dubbing Brushes Bead Chain Again Adding Flash Tips for Tyers Getting Started as a Tyer A Dumbell Idea BEADED-HEAD JID NYMPH/STREAMER WEIGHTED RIBBON WIRE THE FLY SOAKER A SMALLER BODKIN SUBSTITUTE

Previous Tying Tips

: What's Coming
: Wash Your Hands!
: Get More Flies from Your Materials
: Flash Dispensers
: Bodkin Cleaning
: Bench Clutter
: Storing Double-Edge Razor Blades
: Bullet Proof Your Herl
: Check Your Hooks
: Tying in Tinsel
: Separating Bucktail
: Controlling Your Hooks
: Thread Tricks
: Neat Bucktail Heads
: Fixing Un-Cured Epoxy
: Smoothing Silicon
: Coat Your Lead
: Forceps
: Epoxy Pallet
: Sizing Wing Slips
: Better, Easier Dry Fly Tails
: Taming Soft Hackle
: Biot Trees
: Preparing Wing Cases
: Practice Makes Perfect
: Blow 'em Up
: Drop Your Head Cement Thinner
: Cutting Lead, Wire and Heavy Mono
: Add Confidence When You Tie
: Easier Caddis and Muddler Heads
: Make Them Wiggle
: Make A Note
: Wing Posting Simplified
: Applying Head Cement in Tight Places
: Squeaky and Jumpy Bobbins
: Protect Your Pedestal Base
: Spool Tamers
: Get Control Over Static
: Preparing Soft Hackle, An Easier Way
: Cheap Fluorescent Parachute Posts
: Steaming Chenille
: Drying Wet Flies
: Making Stick-On Eyes Stick
: Dismounting Midges
: Profile Your Flies
: Talk to the Experts
: Cutting Bead Chain
: Save on Scud and Shrimp Backs
: Dry Flies That Really Float
: Use a Model
: Put Your Thread On A Diet
: Look in the Mirror
: Which Fly is Weighted?
: Stripping Quills
: Stripping Quills 2, The Sequel
: Taking the Frustration Out of Quills
: Quills and Durability
: Needle Your Flies
: Hang 'Em High
: Cover Your Hook Point
: Keep You Head Cement From Drying Out
: More On Magnets
: Hang It
: Faster Buggers
: Don't Throw Away Your Rejects
: Observing Others
: Posting Dry Fly Wings
: Substitute Fibbets
: Tying Off Parachutes
: Hang Up your Scissors
: Make Your Own Lanyard
: Splaying Hackles
: Hackling Bass and Other Hair Flies
: Aligning Your Hackles
: Cauterize Your Eyes
: Baitfish Have Eyes!
: Painted Eyes! Part 1
: Painted Eyes! Part 2
: Scissors Can Pick Up Hooks
: Overnight Wing Cases
: Fly Turning Wheel
: Keep Your Head Cement Bottle Lids From Sticking
: Bronze Peacock Herl
: Taming Mylar Eyes
: Bring an Old Friend to the Bench
: Shielded Hook Points
: Repairing Jungle Cock Eyes
: Bundle Your Tails
: What Is It?
: What Is It? - Answers
: Protect Your Scissor Tips
: Nasal Spray and Dubbing
: Fly Swap Mailers
: Safer Deer Hair Trimming
: Halford Wing Baskets
: Thank You
: Losing It?
: Dubbing Container
: Chenille Container
: Trimming Deer Hair
: Biot Bodies
: Velcro Bugs
: Goose Quill Bodies
: Rogues Gallery
: If It Isn't Written
: Wrong End Up
: Thinking Outside A Square Box
: Connections
: Cutting Bead Chain
: Care of Hackle/Keeping the Bugs Out
: Twisted Thread
: Really Dry Flies
: Anatomy of a Hook
: Bugaboos
: Vise Advice
: Weighted Nymphs
: How Do I?
: Easy Eyes
: Caddis Wings
: The Importance of a Good Manicure
: Beaded Mono Eyes
: Cheap Scud Backs
: Treating Tied Flies
: Weighted Poppers
: Centering Beaded Head
: Fly Tying Equipment and Materials
: Using Yarn to Secure Non-Lead Wire
: Free Fly Tins
: Velcro on a Stick
: Nearsighted Angler, Part 1
: Nearsighted Angler, Part 2
: Lock Wrap
: Marabou
: What's Dun?
: Tube Flies
: Treating Tied Flies
: In My Room, In My Room
: Wax for Fly Tying
: Rabbit Strips
: Quick Descent Dubbing
: One for the Road
: Dubbing Loop for Feathers
: Dubbing Loop, Basics
: Looping Hair Wings
: Multiple Dubbing Loop
: Wide Body Nymphs
: Fly Tying is Expensive - NOT
: Eureka!
: Post Its
: Laying a Weighted Keel
: Getting a Grip
: Thread Storage
: Half-Hitch Rule
: Hook Clip
: Storing Hooks and Stuff
: Peacock Eye
: Zip Kicker
: Securing Ribbing
: Dry Flies
: Burnt Wings for Caddisflies
: Fly Hook Comparison Charts
: Thread
: When Bad Things Happen
: Flip Flop Flies
: Sizing Beadheads
: Deer Hair Comb
: Two Quickies
: No-Twist Whip
: Beautiful Flies
: Peacock Herl
: Burnt Wings - Stoneflies
: Build A Better Bodkin
: Whip Finisher Tool
: Cheap Micro-fibbets
: Mayfly Proportions
: Use a Saddle
: Wrapping Wire Technique
: Dubbing Brush
: Two Tips for the Price of One
: Non-traditional Parachutes
: Tapered Parachutes
: Striping Quills
: A Cheap Tip
: A Hot Tip
: Reverse Tying
: Burnt Wings for Mayflies
: Scud Back Material
: Mono 'Gut' Eyes
: Peacock Swords
: Faux Bead Heads
: Bent Bobbins
: Ribbing (a better way, at least different)
: Smoother Floss Bodies
: How To Make a Wing Burner
: Peacock Chenille
: It's All In the Details
: Fly Tying Swaps
: What Does a Rotary Vise Really Do?
: Soft-Hackle (Spider) Flies
: DeFeo Style Throat Hackle
: Coloring Epoxy
: DeFeo Style Side-mounted Bundled-fiber Legs
: Shipping Tubes for Flies
: Bad Fly
: Beaded Thorax Flies
: About Thread Spools
: Improving Grip of Hackle Pliers
: Bobbins
: Cheap Salmon Hooks
: Thread
: Not Fancy Bodkins
: Sally Hanson Hard as Nails Revisited
: More Organization
: The Other Rayon
: Getting a Handle on Bluegills
: Making the Easy Door Knob Dubbing Loop Tool
: It is All In the Details
: Tying Thread for the "No See Em's
: Overcoming Obstacles
: Vise Station Side-Tray
: Hackle Guard
: My Evolved Workstation
: Customizing a Rotary Vise, Balance
: Customizing a Rotary Vise Handle
: A Neat Material
: Black Bead-Chain Eyes
: A Storage Idea for Hooks
: Noooo! My flybox is heading downstream...Without me
: More to Save Your Fly Box!
: Save Your Health?
: Coloring Epoxy
: Help Trimming Deer Hair
: Customizing a Rotary Vise Handle
: Spinner Wings
: Poor Man's Bug Viewing Box
: About Buying a Vise
: Easy Bobbin Threading
: Inexpensive Bobbin Threader
: Portable Tying Bench
: Two on Head Cement
: When The Lights Go Out
: Better Rubber Legs
: Glueing Rubber and Foam
: Check the Action
: Stir-Blended Deer Hair
: More Mono-Eyes
: Cutting Dried Hides
: Wire Tricks
: Emerger Wings
: The Third Hand
: Flaring Hair Solved
: Better than Mono Eyes!
: George Harvey Hackling Technique
: Portable Tying Box
: Conehead Tip
: Stick On Eyes
: Nice Thread Rack
: Strike Indicators
: Tying a Tag
: Mono Thread
: Keeping Epoxy Even
: Matuka Wings
: Using Thinner Thread
: A Tool for Bobbin Threading
: Lacquer
: Dubbing Wax Container
: Hook Finder
: Tailing Wet Flies
: Get the Tails Right
: Emerger Bodies
: Elk Hair Caddis, Palmer-Hackled
: Tip for Rotary Vises
: Tip for Catch and Recatch Hooks
: Preserving Silk Colour
: Feather-Hair Equivalents
: Treatment of Hair
: Dyeing Rooster, Hen, Saddles and Backs
: Degreasing Rooster Necks & Saddles
: Combing Deer Hair
: Yet Another Dubbing Technique
: Eyes on Flies
: Tips on Dying
: Check Your Bobbins
: Parachute Hackle
: Choosing Feathers
: Selecting Hooks for Streamers
: Organizing Beads
: Free Wire for Ribbing
: Fly Dryers
: Scrounge Time
: More on Wire
: Stacking Hair
: Three from Tap's Tips
: Your Local Dollar Store
: Vacuum Packing
: The Finger Tip
: Bending Rubber Legs
: Bobbin Tube is Fraying Thread
: Wings Twist While Hackling
: Biot Is Too Short For Body Length
: Tiny Soft-Hackle Flies
: Quill-Bodied Nymphs
: Sparkle Wing Caddis
: 3 Time Savers
: More Time Savers
: Time Savers, continued
: Time Savers, continued
: More Time Savers
: Yet More Time Savers
: Time Savers, continued
: More Saving Time Tips
: Beautiful Glass Bead Eyes
: Blending Dubbing
: Better Material Handling
: Steve's Vise - A vise you can build for $4.00
: Slip Wings, Traditional English Method
: Recycled Plastic Fly Bodies and Hopper Legs
: Alternative Cement Method
: Ribbing Tips
: Have a Second Vise?
: Fly Pattern Categories
: Undressed Humpy
: Latex Bodies
: Tying With Chickabou and Soft Hackle
: Hand Position
: Yarn and Chenille Storage
: Things to Look for When Selecting a Hackle
: Magic Tools Primer
: Hanging Files
: Red Eyes
: Yarn/Chenille Storage
: Bobbin Hanger
: Double Edge Razor Blades
: Make Fine Feathered Friends
: Punch Eyes
: Two Simple Tips
: A Trio of Tips
: Going to the Grocery Store?
: Neat Dubbing and more
: Fly Drying Rack
: Tips for Woolly Buggers
: Why Flatten Thread?
: Tips for Glass Bead Heads
: Tips for Yarn Posts
: Tips for Boa Yarn Leech
: Mylar Wrapping Paper
: Cutting Help
: Easy Crease Fly Bodies
: Write Your Own Book
: Shooting Pool
: Break Your Thread
: Dubbing Tips
: Burnt Eyes
: Easier Rubber Legs
: More on Easier Rubber Legs
: Preparation, Wing Cases
: Unsticking Rod Parts
: Clark Spinning Block
: The Clothespin Vise
: Looks Aren't Everything
: Dumbbell Eye Help
: Tying Flashback Nymphs
: Loose Beadheads?
: Softer, Cleaner Hands
: Standardization of Hooks
: Dubbing Brushes
: Bead Chain Again
: Adding Flash
: Tips for Tyers
: Getting Started as a Tyer
: A Dumbell Idea
: BEADED-HEAD JID NYMPH/STREAMER
: WEIGHTED RIBBON WIRE
: THE FLY SOAKER
: A SMALLER BODKIN SUBSTITUTE

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