{"id":3837,"date":"2021-10-24T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T06:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-27-oct-2021-daddy-long-legs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:38:17","slug":"fly-tying-27-oct-2021-daddy-long-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-27-oct-2021-daddy-long-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Daddy Long Legs Fly Tying 27 Oct 2021 –"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

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We will be tying the Daddy Longlegs.\u00a0 It is useful for loch style fishing dapping or as a dry fly or as a wet fly attached to a gang of three.\u00a0 It is equally useful on moving water or still in our region.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Materials<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hook: Size 10 dry fly hook<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Body: Pheasant tail and a brown hackle to palmer around a gape and a half length, fine gold wire<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Legs: knotted pheasant tail<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Wings (optional): grizzle hackle points<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Hackle (optional): same brown hackle<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

The legs are fiddly to tie so you may wish to tie six of them in advance. See\u00a0https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=how+to+make+knotted+pheasant+tail+legs+for+flies&oq=how+to+make+knotted+pheasant+tail+legs+for+flies&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61.838611394j0j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Via Zoom. We will be tying the Daddy Longlegs.\u00a0 It is useful for loch style fishing dapping or as a dry fly or as a wet fly attached to a gang of three.\u00a0 It is equally useful on moving water or still in our region. Materials Hook: Size 10 dry fly hook Body: Pheasant tail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-ZT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5865,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/5865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}