The After-Burner Wing

How to make perfect CDC mayfly wings every time

Some of my tying solutions are purely serendipitous. Though a few take time and thought, others are sudden and simple. In any tier's life there are few truly innovative ideas, and most of those become less enthralling with time. They become, in fact, not the brilliant maneuvers one once thought. A very few ideas, however, seem so obvious and basic that they demand an audience. The After-Burner Wing may be such an idea--an idea that decreases, rather than increases, tying problems. But there is a hitch: It requires a new tool. Read more – offline – from the current issue; subscribe to FRR.