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- Herausgeber: Merlin Unwin Books
- Kategorie: Lebensstil
- Sprache: Englisch
Following the success of his ground-breaking first book in this series, Barry Ord Clarke (recently voted Flytyer of the World) is sharing his latest innovations in this publication. As with his first book, each step-by-step photographic tying sequence is linked to the online video of him tying each of the flies featured. This gives flytyers the best of both worlds. They can work carefully at their own pace using the book, while the QR code next to each sequence takes them straight to the optional video which gives the overall visual tying lesson. Flies included are: The Ubiquitous Nymph, Danica Mayfly Nymph,Moose Mane Nymph, Clarke's All Purpose Emerger, Midge Emerger, Emergent Sparkle Pupa, Hares ear soft Hackle, All Fur Wet Fly, Hares Ear Parachute, Anorexic Mayfly, CDC Mayfly Dun, Mallard Slip Wings, Compara Dun, Clarke's Caddis, Diving Caddis, Dyret, Welshman's Button, Fluttering caddis, Red Panama, Giant Stonefly, Braided Blue Damsel, The Worm, Float Foam Ant, Madam X, Foam Cylinder Cranefly, Phantom Zonker, Gummi Grub, Silicone Fry.
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Contents
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Foreword
by Hans van Klinken
I have no idea where I met Barry for the first time because I saw him at so many flytying shows and flyfishing events where we were tying flies together. Everybody who ties flies at fairs knows that it is very hard to talk with other flytyers during the events. For a serious talk, we had to wait till dinner afterwards because only then was it possible for us to have a nice chat and share our favourite tales. Barry and I always get on with each other very well, probably because we have so much in common. We highly respect each other; Barry is a true gentleman, always kind and polite to everybody and always willing to help people. He is also lovely with kids who try to learn all about flytying.
Barry and I write for flyfishing magazines all over the world, often the same ones. This is why I know so much about Barry’s fantastic photographs and beautiful artistry at the vice, and how I was able to follow the development of his flytying skills over so many years.
Barry’s work is the perfect welcome into the world of flytying whether via his amazing website, The Feather Bender, or one of his many publications. I have a nice set of his flytying booklets that I frequently use during my kid classes in Bosnia, Scandinavia or Canada. Believe me, kids don’t mind the language barrier; and the tying steps as Barry photographs them in his books, articles and booklets are out of this world.
Each individual tying step is in perfect harmony with his threads and feathers. The more tying steps, the clearer the tying process and the quicker people will understand and that’s what I like for my own classes, workshops and publications as well. My close flytying friend Leon Links and I also agree about this. I favour creating around 20 tying steps to explain my flies and dressings and Barry often goes even further. As a fanatical photographer myself (Barry and I even shoot with exactly the same cameras) I appreciate just how much work it takes to show each pattern in perfect synchronisation within the tying process. I love clear tying steps, in good composition, shot with high resolution cameras – so Barry is a photographer very close to my heart.
Of course, I love to present my own patterns but often for kids my flies are too complicated and that’s why I choose teaching them with patterns as described in Barry’s books. Flytyers are often seen by outsiders as crazy people but most of them are moved to share the art with others.
Sadly I haven’t fished with Barry yet but I know he is an incredible flyfisher. I not only hear that from those who have fished with him, but I can also tell from the ways in which he explains the tying steps and material choices so clearly and in such detail. He is a big nature lover and I well remember him showing me a herd of deer standing in his garden during one of our recent video calls.
When Barry asked my permission several years ago to do a video about tying a Klinkhåmer Special, I was happy to agree as I knew he would tie my Klink even neater than I would tie it myself. He is an amazing flytyer, a perfectionist on a par with my late friend Oliver Edwards. Barry has produced books for beginners, mid-level and advanced flytyers. His idea to perfectly echo and link the tying steps in his book with the tying videos on his website is absolutely unique.
Without doubt I can confirm that you will learn a lot from this book in which he shares so many useful tricks and tips, in words and pictures, all mirrored in his masterclass videos on his YouTube channel, The Feather Bender.
Barry Ord Clarke, I thank you for all the efforts that you have made, helping this and future generations to become better flytyers.
With best wishesHans van Klinken, 2024
How to use this book
This book, the second in my flytying techniques series, has been broken down into chapters and categories. This gives the reader the opportunity to locate the technique or pattern they are looking for with ease. I have carefully chosen each of the patterns, not only to best illustrate many different, slightly more advanced tying techniques, but they also represent some of the very best fishing flies you could have in your fly box.
The index at the rear of the book will tell you where to find particular patterns and techniques. When you have located the chapter for the desired technique, each pattern is listed with a recipe, with recommended hook style, size and materials. These are listed in the order that I use them in the book’s step-by-step images and the video. This will help you plan tying each pattern and select and prepare your materials beforehand.
I also cover some of the materials used in this book. I suggest that you use this information, not only to initially familiarise yourself with their uses and applications, but also as a ‘go-to’ reference when you use one of the materials in a new pattern. Within the patterns throughout the book, I have also listed what to look for when buying these materials: quality, colour, size, variants… This will provide you with essential knowledge that will help you understand each material, its qualities, uses and applications.
I recommend that you start by downloading a QR code app for your mobile or tablet device, then scanning the QR code, or key in the link provided and watch the video of me demonstrating a technique or tying the pattern. Here I describe any special procedure or technique, so you can see, first-hand, how to execute it before you start tying. You can then return to the book and follow the step-by-step instruction to tie at your own speed and leisure. If you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you will be informed whenever I publish a new pattern or technique.
If you are having difficulties with a technique or pattern, you can send me a message via the comments on the video of the pattern in question and I’ll get back to you, hopefully with some help and a solution.
Good luck and tight lines.
Barry Ord Clarke, Skien, Norway, 2024
The Feather Bender flies on YouTube
To watch the YouTube videos of the tying sequences in this book you can follow any of these options:
To use the QR code: open the camera on your smartphone or chosen device. Hold the camera over the red QR code and your web browser will pop up automatically, leading you to the YouTube video of Barry tying that fly. Or key in to your browser the URL (YouTube link) as shown in the book immediately beneath the ‘Watch the Video’ heading. Or type in to your web browser the full fly title as it appears at the start of each step-by-step tying section of the book. The video will come up.9
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Flies and buoyancy
CDC
CDC is short for Cul de Canard or Croupion de Canard, (translated as end of the duck) and was first used as a flytying material in the 1920s in Switzerland. In more recent years, amongst others the Swiss perfectionist Marc Petitjean has been responsible for popularising the use of this material.
All birds have a preening gland (uropygial gland) and surrounding feathers, but the best for flytying comes from ducks. The feathers are located around the gland that produces a waxy preening oil secretion. This highly water-repellant oil is collected on these small feathers, and it is here the bird obtains the oil with its bill, to dress the rest of its plumage. Without this oil the bird would become waterlogged and drown.
The small barbule fibres on a CDC feather snag tiny bubbles of air that work not only on dry fly and emerger patterns but also nymphs. Besides its excellent floating properties, CDC is also extremely aqua-dynamic, pulsating with life in the water, and also aero-dynamic. A CDC feather will collapse under air pressure while casting, but as soon as the cast ends, the feather opens and falls perfectly back into its intended shape.
I obtain what CDC I can from my good friend, Mr CDC himself, David Jedlicka from Prague. David painstakingly sorts, grades and sizes each and every single CDC feather by hand. These top quality feathers can be as large as 5 cm long! The very unicorn of CDC! But more commonly in sizes 3.5, 4 and 4.5 cm. If you ever get the chance to get your hands on any of his CDC products, jump on it.
Natural untreated CDC feathers retain the natural oils and features that originally made it so popular through the flies of Charles Bickel and Louis Veya.
Sadly much of the commercial product marketed as CDC today is far from the original. Washing and cleaning with strong detergents and colouring with hot dye baths render much commercial CDC stripped of any of the qualities that it may have had in its natural state. Some suppliers even go so far as to impregnate treated and dyed CDC with a silicone to help it float again.
Gallo de León
The ‘Gallo de León’ (commonly known as ‘Coq de León’) that I use, are the real deal, from Javier Escanciano, who continued to breed with the roosters from the President of the Breeders Association in the northeast of Spain, and they shouldn’t be confused with anything else.
Flor de Escoba
These hackles are found on only two rare breeds of rooster, ‘Gallo Pardo de León’ and ‘Gallo Indio de León’. The Pardo hackles range in colour from a pale speckled whiteish, golden ginger to a deep reddish brown. The Indio covers a huge range of clear colours from light to dark tones of dun, to subtle shades of steel grey and deep rusty browns.
History tells us that these are without doubt the oldest breed of bird to be bred specifically for flytying. Juan de Bergara, author of 17th century ‘Astorga Manuscript’ lists over 30 wet and dry fly patterns tied with only silk and ‘Gallo de León’ hackles, for fishing in the León region. The majority of the fly patterns carefully blend feathers of both breeds with fine coloured silks, trying to imitate the target insects perfectly.
In these long-established Spanish patterns in which they are used, they are not wound around the hook as a traditional hackle. Instead, small bunches of the fibres are tied onto the hook and then splayed with the tying thread to obtain a radial, fan-like hackle.
In recent years, the growing popularity of these hackles amongst flytyers has made them easier to obtain.
Hackles from these beautiful roosters possess rare qualities found in no other feathers. They have brilliant, translucent, almost glass-like luminescent lustre, sometimes verging on metallic. They are blessed with super-fine, long, straight, stiff yet flexible barbs, and a palette of mottled and earthy colours that could only be achieved by Mother Nature and a methodic genetic selection over centuries by their stewards. These special characteristics make these feathers ideal for the finest tails, wings and hackles, not only on dry flies but also wet flies and nymphs.
Flytyers’ wax
Today, flytyers’ wax is probably the most understated, low-cost, yet invaluable material available to the flytyer.
Although there is a multitude of products that are marketed as ‘Flytying Wax’, I believe there are only two waxes of significant importance to the flytyer: finger wax (all round) and dubbing wax. If you can find a single workable wax that covers both these aspects, this is all that you will need for all your flytying requirements.
Before the introduction of the bobbin holder and pre-waxed tying thread, flytyers used wax to precondition individual lengths of tying silk as their initial operation before commencing with any tying procedure, so that the amount and adherent qualities of the wax would bind materials in place even when tension was released from the tying thread.
The procedure of applying flytyers’ wax to tying thread is a simple and straightforward one that, if practised over time, soon becomes second nature. Commercial flytying finger waxes are generally sold as various forms of cake, and tacky waxes, in lipstick-style dispensers. 19
If you have watched any of my flytying videos online, or seen me tie at shows, you will probably know that when tying I keep a small split pea-sized amount of tying wax on the first joint of my right index finger. This positioning of the wax not only keeps it soft and pliable from the natural warmth of my hand but also makes it instantly available for use when required.
