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Spin, Flare & Shape - American AnglerAmerican Angler

Spin, Flare & Shape - American AnglerAmerican Angler

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Six tips and recipes from professional pattern designers to help you master fly tying’s most demanding material. [story and photos by Ben Duchesney] Start tying your own flies, and you’ll soon want to try deer hair; one of the most useful, but also most frustrating fly-tying materials available. Once you learn to master the material, you can start experimenting with your own flies and present patterns the fish have never seen. Whether you’ve never tied with deer hair before or you’ve struggled with seemingly elemental deer-hair tying techniques, here are a few tips from pro tiers that will have you spinning, stacking, and trimming your way to better deer-hair patterns in no time. Try these tricks and experiment with these recipes, and before you know it, you’ll be showing off your deer-hair patterns without embarrassment. Pack it Tighter Pat Cohen, the owner and fly-pattern designer behind Super Fly custom fly tying (www.rusuperfly.com), is a master of bass bugs and deer hair. “With deer hair there are endless creative possibilities,” Cohen says. “Packing it super tight with a packing tool will make a fly ride high and dry; plus you can add color combos, bars, spots, and blends. It’s all possible