PVFF Conservation & Fishing Links

The Fly Box
This is the fly of the month.

sample

Materials
Size 6 - natural bend wet fly hook
Yellow size 6/o thread
1 mm Spirit River foam
Zonker metal strip, brads or lead for weighting
Biots for tail and legs
Antennae material
Dirty yellow fine dubbing
Black plastic bead eyes
Wing burners for shaping wing pads


1.prepare 6+ weighted hook sets
2.prepare 6x 6 legs from biots (wet)
3.prepare two wing pads from burners
4.color foam strip with gold sharpie with black along back edge
5.wrap thread to bend and tie in foam
6.make two wraps of foam, secure and tie in pair of bio tails, secure with thread and glue
7.continue wrapping foam to mid shank
8.dub and cut off extra foam
9.secure 1st pair of legs with tips facing forward, glue
10.dub over legs, then tie in first wing pad
11.dub forward, tie in 2nd pair of legs, dub again, glue
12.advance dub forward and tie in 3rd pair of legs
13.secure 2nd wing case with tail of the foam wing case extended forward
15.small amount of dubbing, then secure eyes
16.fold foam to the rear to cover the eyes, final dub and finish securing thread

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Fly Fishing and Conservation Links



Members Pages

Fish n Float Adventures

Hunting Creek Outfitters - Frederick, Md.

Kelly's White Fly Shoppe - Shepherdstown, WV

Tree Spitit Tables

B&F Custom Fishing Rods


CLUBS & CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS

Antietam Fly Anglers

Beaver Creek Watershed Association

Creekside Anglers

Federation of Fly Fishers(FFF)

Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB)

Mid-Atlantic Conservation

Mid-Atlantic Council Federation of Fly Fishers(MACFFF)

Potomac-Patuxent Chapter Trout Unlimited

Potomac Conservancy

Potomac Riverkeeper

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership

KNOTS

Nerknots.com (Fishing Knots)

Fishing Log (Fishing Knots)

Knot Wars

Killroy's Knots (Fly Fishing Knots)

FLY TYING

Virtual Flybox

The Fly Bench

Netknots.com (Fishing Knots, Outdoor knots)

RESOURCE LINKS

Steve Moore's excellent "Switch Fisher" web site

New Zeland Mud Snail and wader cleaning info

The Underwater world of Trout - Wendell (Ozzie) Ozefovich

Entomology Resources (Wisconsin Fly Fishing)

Fishing Rolodex

Gander Mt. list of the USA Natural Resources sites

Maryland DNR Fisheries.

Maryland Fresh Water Fishing Reports

Maryland DNR Fishing Reports(LOCAL)

Maryland State Parks - Cabins & Camping information

Trout Stocking Schedules by State

Pennsylvania Fly fishing

Stream Conditions in MD. Area

USGS Water Data for the Nation

West Virginia DNR

MISCELLANEOUS



All About Fly Fishing

Fish n Float Adventures

Fly Anglers Online

Flyshop.Com (has a great bulletin boards)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

American Whitewater (info on access to streams)

Maryland GIS and Mapping Directory

Frederich County GIS Maps

Washington County GIS Maps

Nature Conservancy (info on open land access to streams)

Nature Conservancy (info on open land access to streams)

Nature Conservancy (info on open land access to streams)