Tying Tuesday: Four Flies to Fight Cabin Fever

It’s late January, the rivers are locked up or working grey, and when you’re like most of us, you’ve been staring out the window questioning whenever you’ll really feel a tug on the road once more. Cabin fever is actual, however so is the remedy: 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 selected 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 this planet, 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 return.

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