Brown Drake
Brown Drake Blog- Murray’s Fly Shop- Edinburg, Virginia One late May evening, Mike Hollar and I drifted into a long, flat pool on
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dry flies
My Five Favorite Flies for Falling Water in the Mountain Trout Streams
My Five Favorite Flies for Falling Water in the Mountain Trout Streams The mountain trout streams are dropping but the levels are still
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Splashy Presentations
Splashy Presentations Blog- Murray’s Fly Shop- Edinburg, Virginia In order to solve the problem of splashy presentations when you are fishing dry flies
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Murray’s Liquid Dry Fly Floatant
I make this in my fly shop with special ingredients in order to achieve the three most important functions I believe we need
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Tailing Dry Flies
Many years ago I used to tie my dry flies with thick clumps of spade hackle and could not explain why I got
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Dubbing for Fly Bodies
For dry flies I like to use a very fine poly blend of dubbing material such as Fly Rite 34 on the left
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Dry Fly Cleaning
Dry flies that are coated with old floatant that have matted hackles can easily be brought back to life by carefully steaming them
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Blend Your Dubbing
Fly Tying Tip: Need dubbing material for fly tying? Blend your own custom colored dubbing to meet your fly tying needs. I am a
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Tying a Deer Hair Bass Bug
When I teach my winter fly tying classes, the beginning fly tyers are amazed how quickly they learn to tie great deer hair
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Dry Fly Refusal
Many trout refusals of dry flies result from one of two problems which can be easily corrected. First the fly may be too
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Trick Him
There is some aquatic grass drifting on the stream and even though there is a good hatch on, the large trout before you
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Don’t Shoot into the Covey
When your dog goes on point and you put up a covey of quail you seldom hit anything if you blast into the
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Drys in the Dark
Yes, you can fish dry flies when it is getting so dark that you can not see the fish take your dry fly.
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