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Smoke Fly »

Hook: 3366
Thread: Orvis 8/0 #63 Camel
Hackle: English Grouse
Rib: thin silver wire
Body: Brown Peacock

Materials tied on in order listed. North Country spider technique
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Cassard »

Yellow red and green goose shoulder
Barred wood duck
mylar tinsel
red floss
yellow hen hackle
(doesn’t sound like a lot when listed like this!)

Marrying goose shoulder and barred wood duck.
folded palmered and plucked hackle
Lots of holding my breath while tying
Pray
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Denison »

gold tinsel
green floss
orange floss
yellow red and green goose shoulder
barred wood duck
yellow hen hackle

Married goose shoulder but I did the barred wood duck separately. (like the goose shoulders married is an overwing) Hackle folded and palmered and plucked.
Breath holding
Praying

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Morning Glory »

tag: silver tinsel (lagartun)
body: red floss
rib: silver tinsel (lagartun)
throat: white bucktail, then silver pheasant crest, then blue saddle hackle
underwing: silver pheasant crest
wing: 4 yellow saddle hackles (Feathersmc.com Rangeley Streamer saddles)
shoulders: golden pheasant flank
eyes: jungle cock nail

I glue the jc to the shoulder feathers but don’t like to glue those to the wing feathers.
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Trout Perch »

Per Joe Bates Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing

standard streamer construction
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Snow Day »

I will post it in a comment - nobody seems to pay attention to what is here, anyway.

classic streamer construction
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Academy »

Tag: red floss
Tail: red hackle fibers
Body: peacock herl
Hackle: brown
Wing: claret goose wing quill

standard wet fly construction
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Adder »

Tag: orange floss
Body: brown floss
Rib: orange floss
Hackle: brown
Wing: turkey

standard wet fly construction
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9-3 »

Hook: Daiichi 2271 size 2
Thread: Black 6/0
Body: medium silver mylar tinsel
rib: embossed silver tinsel
wing: white bucktail over which is 3 green saddle hackles tied flat over which is 4 black saddle hackles
cheeks: jungle cock eyes

materials tied in order listed.
The saddle hackles tied in flat are the tricky part. I cement the hackle quills together. I also cement the jungle cock in place along the center of the wing hackles.
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Black Wulff (Bailey) »

Hook: Mustad 94842 Size 12
Thread: Black Orvis 6/0
Tail: Moose body hair
Wing: Black calf tail - variation from Moose body hair
Body: Pink nylon floss
Hackle: Black and dark gray - vairiation from furnace

tied in order listed above
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