{"title":"Dee Finkel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA native of Northern, New Jersey (but don't hold that against her!), Dee now resides in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts. Although the Deerfield and the Hoosic are now her home waters, Dee's heart will always belong to the the Catskill creeks where she spent her salad days. A meticulous dry fly tyer and a prolific writer, her stories have been published in the Fly Fish Journal and The Drake. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"screaming-banshee-grey","title":"Dee Finkel - Screaming Banshee - Grey","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eI discovered the Screaming Banshee in a magazine while killing time at Barnes and Noble. This was ten+ years ago, and I was running an errand while working a shitty job, stretching the time as best I could. I was immediately smitten with the fly and tempted to rip out the pages since I didn’t have my wallet on me, but I didn’t want to risk it on the clock, so I went back after my shift ended to buy the mag. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt looked unlike any other Caddis pattern I saw up until that point, but it was designed by Charlie Craven, so I knew it would fish and then some. The forward wing was alien to me, but combining it with the downward hook eye allowed it to skitter effortlessly. Being made almost completely out of hair made it super buoyant, yet it still sat low with its rear breaking the surface film. Perhaps the coolest part of all was that the fly actually got better every time a fish chomped it– the elk shellback began to pop, freed hairs jutting out erratically, only added to its buginess.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eI tied this batch with light blonde hair to make them more visible, and I hit the tie-in point of the wings with some head cement for extra durability. 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I was immediately smitten with the fly and tempted to rip out the pages since I didn’t have my wallet on me, but I didn’t want to risk it on the clock, so I went back after my shift ended to buy the mag. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt looked unlike any other Caddis pattern I saw up until that point, but it was designed by Charlie Craven, so I knew it would fish and then some. The forward wing was alien to me, but combining it with the downward hook eye allowed it to skitter effortlessly. Being made almost completely out of hair made it super buoyant, yet it still sat low with its rear breaking the surface film. 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