{"id":4432,"date":"2023-02-19T16:08:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T05:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-22-february-taihape-tickler-or-is-that-tie-happy\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T19:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T08:37:10","slug":"fly-tying-22-february-taihape-tickler-or-is-that-tie-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/fly-tying-22-february-taihape-tickler-or-is-that-tie-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taihape Tickler &#8230; or is that Tie Happy? Fly Tying 22 February &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>From Lyall. The tickler was a favourite fly of our long time colleague Dr Bryan Pratt. I think as much for the name as for its ability to catch fish.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"936\" height=\"713\" class=\"wp-image-4434\" src=\"http:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TaihapeTickler.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TaihapeTickler.jpg 936w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TaihapeTickler-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TaihapeTickler-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/TaihapeTickler-624x475.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<p>Unfortunately Nathan can no longer join us on Wednesday evening so I have jumped in and will be demonstrating the Taihape Tickler trout fly.<br \/><br \/>You may elect to sit back and watch on Zoom but if you are interested in materials here goes:<br \/><br \/><br \/>Hook \u2013 any heavy and long hook around size 10. I used a Gamakatsu S11-2L 3xheavy, 2xlong<br \/><br \/>Thread \u2013 black 6\/0 or 8\/0 Uni<br \/><br \/>Rib \u2013 Uni French gold oval rib<br \/><br \/>Tail \u2013 red wool or substitute<br \/><br \/>Body \u2013 brown dubbing<br \/><br \/>Hackle \u2013 matching brown hen hackle<br \/><br \/>Wing \u2013 pukeko substitute<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>keyword wetfly streamerfly<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lyall. The tickler was a favourite fly of our long time colleague Dr Bryan Pratt. I think as much for the name as for its ability to catch fish. Unfortunately Nathan can no longer join us on Wednesday evening so I have jumped in and will be demonstrating the Taihape Tickler trout fly. You [&hellip;]<\/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-4432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly_tying"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7aQnH-19u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4432\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canberra-anglers.asn.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}