Excellent website! The flies you have tied are true works of art. I have been tying flies for a few years now and have just started to attempt fully dressed salmon flies (they are still not the best, but I'm getting there). I normally design my own, but have noticed a few real eye-catches you posted. My question is, what tips can you give me on working with married wings? My main problem lies in attaching the wings to the body. The feathers always seem to bend at the front (where the wings are attached near the head).

First, thanks for the nice words!!
Yea doing the married wing can be a little ticky at the beginning, and even now after a bunch of year it happens that I fail.
The most importen thing for you to do is holding the backpart of the wing VERY tight so it don't follow the tread when you wound it down. When I'm not using a vice i have a much easier way to do it because there is no treadholder in my way, and I can use both thumbs and pointfingers at same time.
So my tip is to skip the treadholder and make this moment without vice using both hands!

hy matt
my name is horst-i have the same problem .i build now 2 jeahr's Classic Salmonflies.The problem was any time
the wings-a good frind of my tell me about a book.
The name is TYING the CLASSIC SALMON FLY--from RADENCICH--this is a good book i need at first 2 hour for build a married wing see my homepageWWW.classic.salmon.flies.de.vu(a Turkey)
there are werry good instruktion and pitcture for building of wing's.if jou can build body and the other tan i give jou also 2 hour for build.the discription is werry good.
I buy teese book in germany(i livin in germ) for 69.70EURO.if jou have problems for buy then answer my.
Thanks horst