Skill Builder Guide

Skill Builder Header.png

Get ready to supercharge your fly tying & fly fishing game with our electrifying series!

In each video, we’ll unveil a trio of powerful techniques, skills, and hacks designed to make you a fly tying/fly fishing powerhouse.

We’re dropping a fresh episode every week, each featuring three cutting-edge methods ranked by difficulty—so you can find the perfect challenge no matter where you’re at on your journey.

Skill Builder Reviews.png__PID:1274fbb3-4467-4d21-937a-a16d0ed29b2f

A Guide Through our

SKILL BUILDERS

FLY TYING SKILL BUILDERS

  • Half Hitch, Deer Hair & Zonker Strips   >
  • Wrapping Lead, Packing Tape & Deer Hair in a Loop  >
  • How to Break Wire, Use Slotted Cones, & HAND WHIP FINISH!   >
  • Flash Storage, Paint Markers & How to Tie a Parachute   >
  • Starting Thread, Shell Back Technique, How to Spin Deer Hair   >
  • How to Tie a HACKLE STACKER, Bobbin Threaders and 3D Eyes!   >
  • Pinch Wraps, Dubbing Ice Dub & How to Tie an Elk Hair Caddis!   >
  • Putting beads on hooks, Thread Control, and CDC Collars!   >
  • Cutting Corners, Clumps of Dubbing & Squirrel Soft Hackle   >
  • How to tie soft hackles three different ways!   >
  • Burnt ends, Bulletproof Caddisflies, and Mayfly Tails   >
  • Labeling Hair, Faking It with Markers, and Complex Twists   >
  • BARRED LEGS, Hackle with Resin, and Hook Cups!   >
  • Applying Resin, Twisting your Thread, and SLIDER HEADS!   >
  • Pat's Rubber Legs, Dubbing Soft Hackle, and Cutting Thread!   >
  • Coloring Hackle, Twisting CDC and Marabou, and Durable Hackle   >
  • Selecting Hair, Whip Finish, and BULLET HEADS   >
  • All About CDC! What is a Puff, and Some Useful CDC Tools.   >
  • Dubbing Organization, Adjusting Tails, and COMPOUND LOOPS!!!   >
  • Pinching Foam, Gluing Foam Sheets, & BURNING Foam   >
  • COMPARADUN WINGS, Hook Organization and Bracing Your Cutting Hand >
  • TYING WITH BIOTS! Cutting Glue Brushes, and Unclogging RESIN Tips   >
  • Are You De-barbing WRONG? Rotary Hack & Ribbed Nymph Bodies   >
  • RESIN BAITFISH HEADS, TIGHT Ice Dub, Choosing a Hair Stacker   >
  • SPLIT THREAD/Dubbing Loop, Peacock Cords & DUBBING BRUSHES   >
  • How to Tie Humpy Wings, Thread Sizes, and GSP   >
  • BOBBINS, Turkey flats on dry flies, and PALMERING MARABOU   >
  • Scissor Control, UNIVERSAL Hook Sizing, & Snowshoe HARE'S FOOT!   >
  • Scissor Angles, Rubber Legs On NYMPHS and Spinner Wings   >
  • Spinning Thread, Touch Dub Technique, and Tying Rubber Legs on Flies   >
  • Clearing a Hook Eye, Swapping Thread Using Bobbins, Tying Biot Tails   >
  • Match Beads to Hooks, Mono Eyes & Marabou Tails.  >
  • Articulated Streamers | How and When to do it!   >
  • Blending Wool, Tying and Shaping Wool Heads & Eyes for Wool Heads   >
  • Alternative Ways to Use and Attach Zonker Strips   >
  • EASY Stripped Quills, Twisted Wire, and Coloring Thread   >
  • Calf Body Hair | Selecting it, Parachutes and Split Wings   >
  • Make Stronger Bodies With This Wire Technique!   >
  • HUNGARIAN PARTRIDGE! Decoding Pelts and Tying Styles!   >
  • Tying Flies With PEACOCK HERL!   >
  • Folding Chubby Wings,Making Hopper Legs & Making Hopper Bodies   >
  • Super Glue Hack, Goddard Cadddis & Finger Dexterity   >
  • Tying On Dumbell Eyes, Furled Tails & Marabou Rundown   >
  • Trimming Materials With Tension, Tying With Synthetic Quills & Nymph Underbodies   >
  • Pheasant Skin Overview, Hopper?Caddis Wings & Using The After Shaft Feather   >
  • 3 Essential Beginner Fly Tying Tools   >
  • Beginner Vise Selection, Proper Hook Placement & Proper Hook Tension   >
  • Secondary Tying Tools, Fly Tying Kits & Head Cement   >
  • Create Indicators on Foam Flies, Pheasant Tail Alternates, Seating a Slotted Bead on a Jig Hook   >
  • Mastering Dubbing Loops   >
  • Mouse Fly Secrets: Choosing Hooks & Materials That Work   >
  • Dry Fly Secrets: Hooks, Materials and What Really Floats   >
  • Durability in Fly Tying   >
  • Create Multi-Color Marabou Tail, Tie Clean Marabou Collar, How to Pull Marabou Fibers Off Quill   >
  • Master the Complex Twist   >
  • Bobbin Threading Made Easy, “My Thread Keeps Breaking,” Switching Bobbins the Easy Way   >
  • How to Make Custom Dubbing Brushes: Ripple Ice Dub Streamer Masterclass   >
  • Flash Storage Hack, The Bead Harness, Underbody Construction   >
  • Stop Thorwing Away CDC   >
  • Master the Art of the Baby Fat Minnow!   >

FLY FISHING SKILL BUILDERS

  • Simple Fly Rod Setup, Approaching Winter Water & Animating Your Flies   >
  • Handling Fish, Reading Winter Water & Mending Your Line   >
  • Choosing Streamer Line, Streamer Retrieves & Strip Setting   >
  • 3 Simple Steps to Help You Choose What Flies to Use!   >
  • Popular Strike Indicators, Chest Fly Patch and Sharpen Your Hooks!   >
  • Dry Fly Rods, Lines and Leaders   >
  • Strike Indicators, Line to Leader Connections & Fish Multiple Flies   >
  • Stretching Line, Balanced vs Standard Flies & Hand Twist Retrieve   >
  • STILLWATER Fly Rods, Lines and Leaders   >
  • STILLWATER Hook Sets, Why WIND is Good & Float Tube   >
  • STILLWATER: How Fish Feed, Launch a Float Tube & Register Strikes   >
  • INDICATOR Fly Fishing! | Rods, Fly Line and Leaders   >
  • Catch More Fish with INDICATORS!   >
  • Fishing the Hang, Swing Tips & Multiple Flies   >
  • Phil Rowley Stillwater Tips   >
  • Carp Tactics   >
  • How to Fish With Streamers   >
  • Winter Fly Fishing Essentials   >
  • All Things Euro Nymphing! Rods, Lines & Leaders   >
  • All Things Streamers! Patterns & Leaders   >
  • 9 Essential Fishing Knots   >
  • Swinging Wet Flies   >
  • What To Do When River Flows Are Higher Than Expected   >
  • Don't Leave Home Without These Items   >
  • Building Your Own Dry Fly Leader   >
  • How to Efficiently Land Fish   >