, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...
AS A KID growing up in Athens, Alabama, Brandon Bailes used to spend a lot of time in his grandfather’s woodshop. His grandpa would cut a block of cedar for Bailes, then sketch something on it—the ...
MOST SMALL BUSINESSES are financially vulnerable; relatively few make it past the five-year mark. By that standard, the work of Pat Cohen, who hand-ties fly-fishing lures, remains in the zone of ...
The classic hair popper is as much a work of art as it is a lethal fish catcher. Courtesy of Brandon Bailes Surface flies made of tightly-spun deer belly hair have been catching bass for more than a ...
When Pat Cohen of Cobleskill won a passel of awards in a nat­ional fly-tying contest last year, word quickly got around about his distinctive deer-hair bass bugs. In fact, word got around the world. A ...