Description

The Grey Hackle Yellow TieYourOwn Kit is the first fly tying kit that Troutlroe are offering in conjunction with April Vokey and Anchored Outdoors. Each month, premium members of the Anchored Outdoors site can get involved in a live online fly tying class with April as she takes members through a variety of classic fly patterns that anyone can tie.

If you somehow don’t know of April Vokey, you’ve probably been living under a rock, one of the very few rocks around the world that she has yet to turn over in her fishing, hunting and outdoor adventures. She has changed the face of fly fishing in a modern world and is now offering a brilliant resource of outdoor education content through the new site Anchored Outdoors. You can find out all about it here, and join up for access to premium fly tying tutorial videos and classes.

This is a complete tying kit with all the materials required to tie 24 flies in teh classic Grey Hackle Yellow fly pattern. Plus, there will be lots left over, so additional hooks can be added at a later date to get even more flies from these materials.

The Grey Hackle Yellow fly pattern is a classic dry fly that has been left out of popular fly tying in recent years as so many of us strive to find new variations on techniques to create improved artworks on a hook. But, classic patterns like the Grey Hackle Yellow became a classic for a reason, and that was because they caught fish. A fly doesn’t need to be popular on Instagram for a trout to like it. And when these flies were first being tied, and fished, in the Smokey Mountains, there was no such thing as Facebook, et alone an iPhone. So, let’s take a step down memory lane and revisit a pattern that will still catch fish today and into the future.

This pattern will be featured in the October 2020 fly tying class on the Anchored Outdoors site. But you can tie it anytime! The materials offered in this kit are more than enough to tie your way through the pack of Ahrex hooks that is included. In fact, there is enough dry fly hackle to tie up to 100 flies, so you’ll have plenty left over to try other patterns too. We have hand selected red saddle hackle feathers from Hareline and packaged them with the kit so you don’t have to buy an entire saddle when only a few feathers are needed. Of course, there are links to all the products in case you only need to add a few items to your existing kit in order to take part in tying this pattern.

Included in this pack are the following :

Ahrex FW500 Dry Fly Hooks #12

Nature’s Spirit Fine Natural Dubbing – Yellow

UTC 70 Denier Thread – Black

Hareline Neck Hackle – Red

Whiting Dry Fly Hackle – Grizzly #12

UNI Gold/Silver Tinsel – #16

All materials are also available to purchase as individual items in the Troutlore store. Just click on the product above to link through to the individual product listings.  There are a range of other packs available in the Troutlore store, matching up to flies that are also available for sale, so please feel free to browse and find one that suits your needs.

Other kits can be found in the Tying Kits Category in the Troutlore Fly Tying Store.  If you can’t find a product you are specifically looking for, get in touch and we will see if it can be sourced, and kept in stock. Plus, you can keep up to date with new releases through our newsletter and social media outlets.