Tying Tuesday: Four Flies to Fight Cabin Fever

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 once you’ll really feel a tug on the road once more. Cabin fever is actual, however so is the treatment: 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 particular 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 earth, a western information staple, a tarpon fly repurposed for Nice Lakes bass, and a quietly lethal caddis sample from top-of-the-line 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 measurement 10 (or comparable 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



The Megalollipop

• Hook: Ahrex Trout Predator Streamer, measurement 1 (sizes 2-4 for trout)
• Thread: Shade to match
• Anti-Foul Loop: 30 lb fluorocarbon
• Tail: Rabbit strip (olive variegated with brown), 1.5x hook shank size
• Physique: Mirror Wrap or Polar Chenille
• Wing: Arctic Fox, tied within the spherical (olive/tan)
• Eyes: Bead chain (small)
• Head: EP Cunning Brush, 3″ size



Tied Down Caddis

• Hook: TMC 100SPBL, sizes 14-20
• Thread: Semperfli Nanosilk 30 denier (brown)
• Wing: Varner X-Superb Deer Hair (pure)
• Physique: Magpie Supplies Dubbing (beige)
• Hackle: Brown or ginger, palmered and trimmed flat on backside