{"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.14288\/1.0048266":{"https:\/\/open.library.ubc.ca\/terms#identifierAIP":[{"value":"1add9278-514d-4096-bf78-f1eedd360eb7","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/dataProvider":[{"value":"CONTENTdm","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/isPartOf":[{"value":"Westland","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/issued":[{"value":"2012-07-26","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"1986-02-10","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/description":[{"value":"In this episode (part one of two) angler John Massey offers a series of lessons on how to tie flies for fishing. Between lessons there is film of fly-fishing alongside words from author Roderick Haig-Brown.","type":"literal","lang":"en"},{"value":"","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.europeana.eu\/schemas\/edm\/aggregatedCHO":[{"value":"https:\/\/oc-uat.library.ubc.ca\/collections\/westland\/items\/1.0048266\/source.json","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/terms\/extent":[{"value":"1 U-matic videocassette ; 00:28:30","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/format":[{"value":"video\/mp4","type":"literal","lang":"en"}],"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2009\/08\/skos-reference\/skos.html#note":[{"value":"(OPENING MUSIC)\n\nMIKE HALLERAN:\nThe BC Wildlife Federation, in cooperation with the communications branch of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, presents Westland, a series of programs discussing natural resources conservation and land use in British Columbia.\n\nI\u2019m Mike Halleran. Writers from Isaac Walton to Roderick Haig-Brown have written thoughtfully about the art of the fly fisherman. On tonight\u2019s program, we have some lessons on tying flies with angler John Massey as host. Between the lessons, some film of fly fishing and some of the words of Roderick Haig-Brown. Here\u2019s Lesson One.\n\n(THUMPING ROCK MUSIC)\n\n(GENTLE CALM MUSIC)\n\nJOHN MASSEY:\nNow that\u2019s what fly fishing is all about. Hello, I\u2019m John Massey, and today we\u2019re going to introduce you to the wonderful world of fly tying. To able you to tie a fly properly, and to catch some fish, it is essential that you learn a few basic techniques. The techniques which we will show you today are: selecting tools, basic materials, attaching and using thread, dressing tail and body, winding hackle, and finishing the fly. Let\u2019s look at the basic tools first. They\u2019re not expensive, and will easily repay their costs many times over.\n\nThe first tool you will need is a good vice. You will spend many enjoyable hours with this instrument, so be sure to purchase a precision one and it will last you a life time. You will need a bobbin to hold your thread. The bobbin makes it easy to wind the thread, and allows the thread to hang neatly without unravelling. You will need a pair of hackle pliers. These will enable you to grasp materials which are often too fine for you to hold in your fingers.\n\nNaturally, you will need a pair of scissors. Only those of good quality, which will carry extremely fine points are of any use to the fly dresser. Be sure that they never leave your fly tying bench, that they do not get into your wife\u2019s work basket, and are reserved only for the purpose for which they were intended.\n\nBefore tying, the thread should be waxed. Unless you have bought pre-waxed thread. This enables you to bind the materials more firmly to the hook. Once the fly is completely dressed, you will need a whip finisher, a bodkin, and some head cement. These are the basic tools, as your skills and ambitions increase, you may feel the need to add others or you may find the odd one you could do without.\n\nNow, all of the flies which you will tie fall into one of two broad categories: dry flies, which are designed and tied to float, or wet flies, which are designed and dressed to sink. The creatures we are to imitate when we tie a fly will vary in size from .2 or .3 of an inch in length, to in some cases many inches. For this reason, the hooks on which these imitations are dressed will vary greatly in size, weight, and design. We\u2019ll show you more about this later. \n\nThe various materials used by the fly dresser are far too numerous to list in their entirety. But the most commonly used would include: a variety of feathers, silk threads, animal fur and hair, assorted coloured woolen yarns, fine metallic tinsels, mylar and chenille. A fully dressed fly may contain as many as 16 or more components. But most patterns do not call for more than six. Now these are the tail, the body, the rib, the hackle, the wing, and the head. Okay, now that we have introduced the necessary tools, some materials, and identified the fly\u2019s anatomy, let\u2019s tie a fly. Our first one will be nice and easy.\n\nSelect a number 6 standard shank hook and place it in the vice like this. Place a spool of tying silk or pre-waxed thread in the bobbin. To get the thread through the tube insert it into the tube and suck it through, like this. Next, pull 4 or 5-inches through the bobbin and ensure it is waxed. Attach the thread just behind the eye of the hook by holding the thread behind the shank with your left hand. Make several clockwise turns with your right hand, winding the thread upon itself. At this point, to prevent the possibility of the thread loosening while the body materials are being tied in, it\u2019s a good idea to secure it with a half-hitch. And snip off the excess thread.\n\nPlease note at this point, before the body materials are tied in, it is absolutely essential that enough room be left between the tying thread and the eye of the hook. This space allows for the addition of the hackle and for finishing the fly. From this mail peacock feather, take off four or five fronds.  Align the tips. And place them on top of the shank of the hook. Wrap two or three turns around them to attach them firmly in place. Secure once again with a half-hitch, and cut off the excess material. \n\nWe are now gonna wind on the body of the fly. And it is important to remember that the turns are always made away from you, or clockwise when viewed from the eye of the hook. Unless of course you happen to be left-handed, in which case everything is going to be the other way round.\n\nHolding the peacock herls firmly together, wind them tightly towards the bend of the book and then back over themselves to the tying thread, thus creating a full and well-shaped body. Tie the herls in by wrapping a couple of turns around them with the tying thread and secure with a half-hitch. Clip off the excess material. After you\u2019ve gone to all this trouble, you don\u2019t want the first trout that takes it to tear it to pieces, so it\u2019s a good idea to take the tying thread to the bend of the hook and back again to reinforce the strength of the body. \n\nSelect a large brown hen hackle and holding it by the tip, spread the hackles towards the butt so that you can determine their length. Notice that all hackles have a shiny side and a dull side. The shiny side which is known as the face is on the convex surface of the hackle, and the dull side is on the concave. \n\nWhen attaching the hackle to the head of the fly, it is important the face or shiny side be towards you. The hackle is secured by taking several turns of the thread towards the eye of the hook where it is again secured with a half hitch. Again, clip off excess. \n\nFor ease of handling the hackle pliers are now attached to the free end of the hackle. Which is now wound on as tightly as possible towards the eye of the hook. While keeping some tension with the hackle pliers, take three or four turns of the tying thread and tie it off. With those scissors, which are as though for no other purpose, clip off the excess hackle as closely as possible to the shank of the hook. While gently stroking the hackle towards the bend of the hook wrap several more turns of the tying thread to shape the hackle to your liking. Finish the head off with several half hitches like this.\n\nClip off the excess thread, and with your bodkin, pick up a drop of head cement and apply it to the head of the fly like this. When finished, your fly should look something like this. \n\nIncidentally, a better way of finishing the fly is with a whip finisher. Instead of using several half hitches to finish off the head, make only one. Take the thread away from the eye of the hook with the spring. Engage the thread between the finisher and the eye in the outer of the two U bends at the point. Place the inner U bend against the head of the fly and rotate the whip finisher three or four turns like this. Holding the turns with the thumb and the forefinger of the left hand, disengage first the spring then the point of the whip finisher. Pull the tying thread tight and the whip finisher\u2019s complete. \n\nBelieve me, by mastering this technique, not only will your flies be much stronger, but you will save yourself a good deal of time. Now watch it again. The fly you\u2019ve just tied is known as the brown hackle. This fly will catch fish, but the final approval has to be given by the trout. So try it.\n\nMIKE HALLERAN:\nRoderick Haig-Brown wrote: \u201cI am afraid most of us who are ordinary run-of-the-mill fishermen, fishing rather varied waters under varying conditions, have to count on having our most cherished theories upset from time to time, and I doubt if we should complain about it or resent it. Undoubtedly fish have patterns of behaviour that are roughly predictable and we can afford to take pride in our understanding of these patterns and the successes that grow from that. But unfortunately we are always working with an infinity of variables that would drive any scientist to distraction - season, temperature, current, light, the aberrations of the fish themselves, their senses and perceptions and perhaps even the aberrations of insects. We may be able to tidy all this into a nice workable theory from time to time and gain greatly from it, but I do not think we need feel ashamed or when such a theory falls apart.\u201d\n\nJOHN MASSEY:\nA basic wet fly usually has four components. They are the tail, the body, the hackle, and the wing. The relationship between the size of these components and their balance is absolutely vital to the success of the fly as it must swim upright and have a very lively action. If it is to catch fish, your fly must perform properly. This is why it is critical that its proportions be correct. Notice, the tail is approximately the same length as the body. The hackles extend from the head of the fly to the point of the hook. And the end of the wing is directly above or slightly behind the outside bend of the hook.\n\nLater, as we get into tying streamers and nymph patterns, we shall see there are some exceptions to this rule. The fly you will now tie is a conventional pattern known as the Throat Hackled Professor. It is much favoured by those who fish for Cutthroat Trout. The hook we have selected is again, a number 6 regular wet fly hook. Having selected a fine thread, ensure that it is properly waxed, attach it to the shank of the hook, wind it back to the bend, and secure it with a half hitch. Strip a small clump of fibres from a large red hackle, and keeping the tips aligned, tie them in above the bend of the hook. Like this. And secure it with a half hitch. Cut off the excess material. \n\nThe body of the fly will consist of two materials: yellow wool and oval tinsel. Now it is important that they be tied in in the opposite order from which they are to be wound. When more than one material is used in forming the body of the fly, this is always the golden rule.\n\nSince the tinsel will be the last to be wound, we will tie it in first, like this. Again, secure with a half hitch. Cut off about 3- or 4-inches of yellow wool and attach it in the same manner. Wind the tying thread forward, over the wool, towards the eyes of the hook. And secure with a half hitch. Leave sufficient room to tie in the thread hackle, the wing of the fly, and the finished head. Now form the body of the fly by winding the wool forward to the tying thread. \n\nSecure it. Snip off the excess material. Rib the body by winding the oval tinsel forward in four or five well-spaced turns. And secure with the tying thread. Clip off the excess. And secure with a half hitch. From a soft brown hen hackle, clip off a small clump of fibres. Position them under the shank of the hook so that their tips extend to the point of the hook. Holding them with the finger and thumb of the left hand, secure firmly in place with the tying thread. Snip off the excess material. Hold fast for the half hitch.\n\nWet flies are tied with several types of wings. Among them are hackle-tip wings, quill wings, hair wings, and the rolled tip wing which we will show you now. Take a maladrake flank feather and snip off about half an inch. Fold the fibres over. Holding the rolled wing, position it over the body of the fly, so that the ends of the wing extend just behind the bend of the hook. Secure it firmly in this position with several turns of the tying thread, and clip off excess.\n\nFinally form the head of the fly by making several turns of the tying thread. Hold fast for the half hitch, and finish with the whip finisher. Clip off the thread and with your bodkin apply a drop of head cement. And your finished fly should look something like this.\n\nI have found this fly to be particularly successful in the fall. It is equally good for either land-locked or sea run Cutthroat trout. And across the years, I think it has afforded me as much or maybe even more fun as any other pattern that I use.\n\nMIKE HALLERAN:\nThe pace of fly fishing, unlike that of most sports, can be quite easily controlled to suit one\u2019s mood. One can work hard at it if one chooses: wading upstream with a dry fly, ploughing through brush from pool to pool, climbing around steep banks and rock bluffs to get at good water can add up to the hardest possible kind of day if that seems desirable. But one can always get a fair measure of fishing without going to such extremes.\n\nJOHN MASSEY:\nNot all wet flies have wings. Some of those which are tied without them are known as hackled or palmered flies. The black wooly worm, which we are now about to show you, is an excellent example. Long shank hooks are preferred for this pattern, which is tied in a wide variety of sizes, as it is effective for both Steelhead and trout. The hook I\u2019m using is a low water long shank number 6.\n\nAfter having waxed and attached your thread in a usual manner, be sure that the thread when wound back, stops and is secured directly above the point of the hook. And clip off the excess material. Take a short length of red fluorescent wool and tie it in at the place where the thread was secured. Trim both ends, leaving the tail end extending very slightly beyond the bend of the hook.\n\nYou will now need a grizzly hackle, which we must explain comes not from a bear, but from the neck of a domestic fowl, known as the Plymouth Rock. This hackle you will notice is extremely narrow for its length. Holding the hackle by its tip, with its face or shiny side towards you, stroke the fibres down toward the butt to make them stand out. Making sure the face is towards you, tie in the tip of the hackle like this. This half hitch is one you may be able to do without.\n\nTake 2.5- to 3-inches of medium black chenille, and with your fingernails strip the fuzz from the end. Tie in the exposed core at the same point as the tail and the hackle tip. Wind the tying thread towards the eye of the hook, being careful to bind the excess hackle and tail material along the shank of the hook. Be sure you secure the tying thread with a half hitch, leaving sufficient room behind the eye to tie off the body materials and build up the head of the fly. Wind the chenille carefully and tightly forward to the tying thread. Tie it off and clip off the excess material.\n\nMaking sure that the shiny side is towards the eye of the hook, wind the hackle on in a series of spaced spirals until you reach the tying thread. Secure it and snip off the excess. Build up the head of the fly with several turns of the tying thread. With your whip finisher or with several half hitches, finish off the head of the fly. Snip off the excess thread. Apply a drop or two of head cement, and you now have a completed black wooly worm. Incidentally, the technique of winding on a hackle along the whole length of the fly is known as palmering.\n\nIt is generally accepted that the wooly worm does not imitate any specific sub-aquatic creature. So it is known as an attractor, rather than an imitator. But it works.\n\nMIKE HALLERAN:\nNext week, part two of \u201cHow to Tie Flies.\u201d The week after, a wildlife program starring big horn sheep, mountain goats, and even white pelicans. And part two of our fly-tying course next week. I\u2019m Mike Halleran for Westland. Goodnight.\n\nWestland is produced by the BC Wildlife Federation, a non-profit citizens\u2019 conservation organization, whose members engage in vital, hands-on projects for fish and wildlife. For further information, write to Box 1113, Surrey BC. V3S 4C5. Or telephone 576-8288.\n\n \"Westland\"; A Joint Presentation of the B.C. Wildlife Federation; Communications Branch Department of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada); Series Producer: Mike Halleran; Production Assistant: Jeanne Halleran; Series Editor: Danny Tanaka; We wish to acknowledge the assistance of the B.C. Ministry of Forests; We wish to acknowledge the assistance of the B.C. 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