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 Fly Tier: Andrew Cooper |
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Tying Instruction : 1) Tie on thread at hook eye. Wrap back to 1/3 shank length back from eye. 2) Tie on Para Post material. Lift up Para Post material and form a parachute style hackle post. 3) Wrap thread back to hook bend and tie on small (very small) ball of dubbing. 4) Tie on Microfibetts as tail and splay them over the ball of dubbing. 5) Dub a smooth body up to the parachute post. 6) Tie in a hackle next to the parachute post, do not wrap the hackle at this time. 7) Dub the rest of the hook form in front of the post up to the hook eye. 8) Burn a spinner wing out of Krystal Organza. Check the How to burn spinner wings page. 9) With dubbing on the thread tie the spinner wing on directly in front of the parachute post. 10) With the thread at the hook eye wrap the hackle around the parachute post and tie off at hook eye. Whip finish head. 11) Using a needle put a small (very small) drop of super glue on the parachute post. Note : Neil Houlding first showed me burnt spinner wing flies using shimakazi material. Although very effective these flies were hard to see and very fragile. The addition of a parachute and Krystal Organza wings makes this fly visible and bullet proof . Rick Harrington named this fly the Cooper Full Dressed when I showed it to him last year. He was laughing quite loud and said "Coop only you could take a simple fly and make it overly complicated" an hour later, after losing the one I gave him to a fish, he was back begging me for one more. |
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When I was 13 my parents gave me a fly fishing outfit for my birthday. That year I spent a lot of time trying to fly fishing on our local trout stream. I caught nothing the whole summer. My dad, not being a fisherman, couldn't understand how I could keep going back day after day. One day a friend of his a work suggested we visit Carl Coleman who had a fly fishing store in the basement of his house. We went to Carl's and bought a fly tying kit, and Carl told us of a man who lived in my neighborhood named Lynn Holt who might help me tie some flies. That winter, Lynn graciously let me come over to his house on Wednesday nights to tie flies. The very first trip that next spring I caught my first Trout. Lynn did not ask for anything for all the lessons he gave me, he did it for the love of the sport. He was passing on a gift that will last me a lifetime.
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