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Back in the mid 1970s, I was just getting into fly tying.  The Internet did not exist, and the information about fly tying came from books, magazines and/or word of mouth.  Since nobody in my family was a fly tyer, I relied on a few books but mostly on magazine articles.  I looked forward each month to the Pennsylvania Angler magazine.  It was there in Chauncy K. Lively’s article Tying the Little Black Stonefly, that I first saw a pattern for a Wonder Wing stonefly.  The fly looked, as they said back in the 70s, ”cool.”  Being a beginner fly...

Tapered, Ringed, Loop… How do hook eyes differ and does it even matter in the long term? Our aim is to break down the function and purpose of hook eyes for the tyer and the angler. The second section will be on type of hook eyes. Tapered eyes are most commonly found on trout hooks. Tapered eyes generally are round in shape. The wire for the eye terminates either into the eye or the end of the shank. The wire at some point, either at the end of the shank or just into the eye the diameter gets progressively thinner....