On Thursday, July 10, AMFF Ambassador Scott Biron & Curator Jim Schottenham gave a tutorial on various fly-tying tools, tips, and tactics used by Scott when teaching all levels of fly tying. Scott covered a wide range of tools and materials such as:
- Supercharging hackle pliers
- Needle bodkin and upgrade from traditional bodkins
- Whip finishing tools and techniques
- Fly-tyers wax and its life-changing properties for tyers
- Prepping golden pheasant crests
- Painting eyes on flies
- Choosing streamer feathers for traditional feather wing flies
- Gluing streamer wings
- Prepping peacock herl
- Head cement 101
- When to save your bits and pieces
