It’s late January, the rivers are locked up or running gray, and if you’re like most of us, you’ve been staring out the window wondering when you’ll feel a tug on the line again. Cabin fever is real, but so is the cure: a well-lit vise, a warm beverage, and a few hours of wrapping thread.
This week’s Tying Tuesday has no central thread (so to speak). We’re not building a matched hatch box or prepping for a specific trip. Instead, we’ve pulled together four videos that caught our attention—an eclectic mix spanning a meditative and articulated take on the most popular streamer in the world, a western guide staple, a tarpon fly repurposed for Great Lakes bass, and a quietly deadly caddis pattern from one of the best in the business. Call it a cabin fever sampler: something for every mood and every season to come.
So clear off the desk, queue up the videos, and tie something new.
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Articulated Woolly Bugger
- Hook: Sizes #1 and #4
- Thread: Rust
- Bead: Burnt orange, 3.8mm
- Tail: Marabou (browns, tans, olives)
- Flash: Rootbeer Krystal Flash
- Hackle: Golden olive
- Rib: Wire
- Trailer Wire: For articulation connection
- Adhesives: Super glue and UV Head Cement
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Pat’s Rubber Legs
- Hook: Risen 300’s size 10 (or similar streamer/nymph hook, sizes 4-12)
- Weight: Lead wire (.015)
- Thread: Veevus 6/0 (brown)
- Tails & Antennae: Bug Legs or Spanflex (brown or black)
- Body: Variegated Chenille (brown/yellow or coffee/black)
- Legs: Bug Legs or Spanflex
- Head Cement: Solarez Ultra Thin UV Resin or Sally Hansen Hard as Nails
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The Megalollipop
- Hook: Ahrex Trout Predator Streamer, size 1 (sizes 2-4 for trout)
- Thread: Color to match
- Anti-Foul Loop: 30 lb fluorocarbon
- Tail: Rabbit strip (olive variegated with brown), 1.5x hook shank length
- Body: Mirror Wrap or Polar Chenille
- Wing: Arctic Fox, tied in the round (olive/tan)
- Eyes: Bead chain (small)
- Head: EP Foxy Brush, 3″ length
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Tied Down Caddis
- Hook: TMC 100SPBL, sizes 14-20
- Thread: Semperfli Nanosilk 30 denier (brown)
- Wing: Varner X-Fine Deer Hair (natural)
- Body: Magpie Materials Dubbing (beige)
- Hackle: Brown or ginger, palmered and trimmed flat on bottom
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