The Denison, a married-wing classic wet fly

This past weekend I had more fun than I’d had in a month of Sundays.

The good folks at Anglers XStream, a fly shop in Parkersburg, asked me and several other fly tiers to demonstrate the techniques we use to tie our favorite patterns.

Some of the guys tied trout flies. Others tied bass or muskie flies. I tied classic, married-wing wet flies.

Married-wing wets like the Ferguson, the Denison and the Parmachene Belle have been out of vogue for 40 or 50 years, but that didn’t seem to deter folks from gathering around to check out the techniques used to tie them.

At the end of nearly six hours’ worth of tying, my back was sore and my voice had just about given out. But wow, I had fun!

As I left, I borrowed a quote from Ed Buck, the legendary trapper from Richwood: “Thanks for the invite, boys. I ain’t had so much fun since the hogs ate my brother!”

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