In this current episode of the Orvis podcast, Tom Rosenbauer takes a seat Steve Carew of Fulling Mill to discuss how flies go from their initial pattern to what we see in fly stores. It’s an intriguing discussion, and you can listen to it here.
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Picture: Dom Swentosky/Troutbitten Years earlier, when I initially discovered to connect flies, my father revealed me a caddis pattern that he stated his daddy-- my grandfather-- developed. This specific fly is a mashup of what a tier today would...
Bob Quigley was among the most prominent fly tiers of his generation. While he passed in 2012, his developments in fly connecting reside on, and continue to affect fly style today. In a 2013 Fly Angler Publication post, Charlie...
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