Two different videos; Niklas Dahlin is Swedish and Oliver Edwards is, well you know.

Leisenring based many of his flies on British flies. Many are direct copies. In the UK, silk thread continued to be the first choice of fly tyers until relatively recently. The US is the leader in synthetic materials.

One of best wool yarns for dubbing Is crewel yarn. It’s the kind mentioned by Leisenring for his cow dung fly. What I do is cut it into approximately 4” lengths. I then twist the yarn into individual strands. These strands can then be easily pulled apart. This way you don’t have a lot of cut ends sh...

Original Chadwick's 477

If you look at the picture of the flea; it will give you an idea what color matches the nylon portion of 477 yarn.

http://thisisversaillesmadame.blogspot. ... olour.html

I looked at some original 477 yarn under a microscope. The 85% wool is so pale it might be undyed. The 15% nylon is sort of a light, brownish red. My color reference book describes it as raspberry. The nylon fibers are so thin that it's difficult to describe exactly what the color is. An idea to try...

For a really close cuts it’s hard to beat a scalpel. A handle and a box of disposable blades is relatively cheap. I also have a small, plastic container for safe blade disposal.

I recently bought some Tenkara hooks. The shape reminded me of the English bait hook which Gary Borger used for his Fur Caddis Larva fly. It occurred to me that Tenkara rods are similar to the loop rod. I wonder if the Japanese were influenced by British fishermen.

The link I posted has Jack’s description of the Sparrow.