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  1. Hey all! I’ve posted a few times recently about my journey into tying winged wet flies. After a few years of dries, nymphs and streamers I thought I’d work on these for a while. From a purely aesthetic point of view winged wets are the prettiest patterns in my opinion. So far I’ve been focusing on two specific flies… a Leadwing Coachman and a Royal Coachman. Tying the bodies is easy enough. Hackle is fairly straightforward unless it’s a throat. That gives me fits. But my main question is about the wings. I have several duck and turkey quills I’m using. Sometimes I get them cut and lined up fairly evenly. Sometimes they’re a little bit off. But what’s really frustrating me is tying them in correctly. I’ve watched dozens of videos where it’s done and think I’m following it fairly well. Once I have them in my fingers at the length I want I use a loose pinch wrap and then pull upwards on the thread binding the feathers to the shank. It does just that. However both feathers almost always end up on one side of the shank or the other… never directly on top. I honestly don’t know what I’m doing differently from the videos I watch. Theirs always look great and uniform and tidy. Mine look okay if you’re looking at it from one side but looks weird from the other. Oh! And some guys online appear to have one feather on each side of the shank when tying them in? For the life of my I can’t figure out how they do that. Anyway… I had to step away for a bit. Almost threw my vice in the dumpster. Ha! I kid. How did you guys learn to do this properly? I must’ve tied 30 Coachmans these past couple of days and maybe only two are acceptable.
  2. Intro- Although I have tied certain fly patterns for many years, I gave up about 23.5 years ago on trying to tie Winged Wet flies in general, and the Rio Grand King, specifically. I found that a Trude style better matched my tying ability and fish were indifferent. I live in Wyoming, I catch a lot of fish, some pretty big ones. Yet, my failure to set the wings correctly on this style always bothered me. Back around Thanksgiving Crackaig and flytire provided some excellent advice and guidance on the techniques needed to tie Winged Wet flies. I made a New Years resolution that I would learn to tie a credible Winged Wet Rio Grand King. So please review the following pictures and let me know if I can cross this pattern off my to-do lists. Did I set the wings correctly? Please point out, because I am truly a beginner on these types, what appears to be wrong and how one might fix any deficiencies. Pummel me hard, if you must, I can dish it out- I can take it- I will learn stuff and maybe some less experienced novices will too! Tell us your solutions, ie ., how you would tie it differently? The Contest and Prize- Look at the four samples I named and provided. If you are the first to do so - and can label each fly , numbers 1 through 4 in the correct order that I actually tied them, I will buy you one of Al and Gretchen Beatty's new e-books on Amazon. While they are free to Prime Members, the e-book prices range from $4.99 to $7.99. I think they are a tremendous, cost effective resource to new and old tiers alike. Beginners- these e-books will expand your repertoire immediately and save you unneeded expenses for some tools, materials, and instructional manuals. Al and Gretchen also will give you some very practical work-arounds and material substitutions that will save you a bunch of hard earned money. The Beatty's are friends of this forum and have been writing and teaching fly tiers for many years. Hope they plan to continue! All entries must be received no later than March 31, 2017 at 1159 PM, MDT. Next resolution- My St. Patrick's Day resolution is to tie a Wonder Wing Adams. These flies are amazing to look at and will fish most trout waters. Al has done a You Tube video that you can also view, if you want to download the e-book on these Wonder Wing patterns. I look forward to comparing your work to mine. Post your flies in this thread. I will have mine completed before March 17 celebrations start. I am confident that I will fulfill my latest resolution to be a more practical and versatile tyer in 2017. Contest Answer Sheet- So here are the four Winged Wets I tied and named; and left to right A through D. Which one did I tie first, second, third, or fourth? _____A. Leadbelly Coachman _____B. Dyslexic Rio Grande King _____C. Rio Grande King _____D. Double Wing Rio Grande King
  3. I want to thank everyone for voting and if you haven't voted on the previous wet fly poll here is a link. This poll is multiple choice.
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