From: Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [VFB] Teaching kids to tie Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:21:13 -0600
Ed,
I had forgotten about the fly, you brought it up at the right time.
Our monthly tying session was to be at my house yesterday. I was about to cancel it because I could not do the stairs to my tying room to get materials for the fly I was to demo. I do some minor tying upstairs on the back porch. I found I had several colors of marabou here so I decided to have the session and we tied the one plume damsel. We tied it in black, olive, burnt orange and purple. A couple of the seasoned tyers claimed to be the simplest fly they have tied.
I did up a bunch before hand and added some Krystal flash in the tail and wing, made some with hackle collar instead of the wing, added a contrasting color marabou shell back. Also used the same method using antron yarn to tie some sz 16 emergers.
I think I will tie some of these at the Sowbug along with the Knitpickin Mayfly.
Thanks for the reminder
Tony
Ed Engelman/Sue Atkinson wrote:
When I teach youth their first fly I
1. Teach them a one material fly. I don't teach a woolly-bugger until a second or third session. I have two favorite one-material flies:
a. Tony Spezio's marabou damsel. The pattern is on the VFB site.
b. The marabou leech (Okay, sometimes I have them thread a glass bead on the hook first making it a two material fly.)
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