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Here is a handy little terrestrial beetle that can be used in the New Zealand style with a buzzer about 8" below it Righthanded tying assumed for this effort. Materials - Hook - Kamasan B830 size 10 Thread - UTC black Body - 6 or 8mm booby eyes, black preferable but can be worked on Abdomen - Black UV micro straggle fritz Thread up your hook to the end of the shank Select a booby eye or piece of booby cord slightly longer than the hook shank Carefully split it in two with a craft knife or single edged razor blade Tie in your fritz at the end of the shank Then catch the end of the foam by about 1 mm with the thread and pull in tightly giving 3 or 4 turns Raise the foam and run the thread up 2/3rds of the shank and follow with the fritz and secure it there Part 2 - this way ->

Shuck, here is an after thought. Our fly tying forum has a complete beginners section - Absolute Beginners - worth a look to get you on the right path. TLs

Hello Shuck, it is good practice to tie more than one of any fly but to tie dozens when you first start out is a bit extreme and you will also find it boring. You are best starting off by tying 6 of a pattern in 3 different sizes starting from the larger size and working down to the smallest size. Each time you finish a size, compare the first fly with the last and once you have done all 18 then compare the first largest with the last smallest. Doing this enables you to see your progress as you tie and helps you consolidate your skill with one fly. Here is a link to a step by step I illustrated using that very same method - Step by Step - we do a lot of this type of tying across the pond and the SBSs are to help anyone of any level in tying flies. Start with simple patterns that do not require you to go out and buy masses of materials, master these before progressing to different fly types and tying methods and you will get a lot of enjoyment as you progress and hone your fly tying skills. Some simple fly suggestions - Griffiths Gnat (without the peacock herl), a generic black fly, a simple thread and hackle spider (these are quite easy to master and you can create several different spiders just by varying the thread colouration) Search the web by all means and you will find a wealth of patterns from the basic beginner flies right up to the advanced level Salmon flies that take years to master correctly but above all, have fun doing so! TLs

You have almost hit the nail on the head with that description, when we Scots get into full drinking mode, we can only be understood by each other! As a matter of fact, I cannot understand the folks from the North East either! A different language is spoken up there and around the Macduff and Banff areas, well to me it sounds a different language!

Dryfly, that is fantastic scenery in which to wield a rod, I am envious of the range of fishing that is available to you in Canada from the small lakes in the East to the high range rivers in the West that hardly see a human being. I will need to get across there sometime in the future to experience this for myself as my only associations with Canada have been Vancouver for a weeks vacation and Montreal for work on several occasions when I was a commissioning engineer for a German company. TLs

I would think that my ass would have given it away! I am a Scot, living and working in Ireland at present. The accent is pure Scottish and is indecipherable to some!

Sarcasm? We would never stoop to such low methods! All we ask is that when you reply to any of our posts, you use a Chambers English Dictionary for spelling references. Sarcasm indeed!

Your first photograph and reply were right - a Waterboatman or Corixia - looks like it was tied with both goose biots and PT fibres to create the legs, nice hazy dubbing and shellback completes the fly

Hi Folks, my thanks to Flytyer for the advance warning to you! I am one of those people from across the pond and hope to pick up some useful tips and patterns from you guys (and gals) hopefully I can reciprocate with some stuff that you haven't seen before from our forum - UK Fly Dressers - I post under the same label there. Until then, TLs to all.