What it is
Hareline’s River Road Wing is a wing-cutting tool for the tying bench. It’s built with double-edge steel blades set into a hardwood base so you can press out repeatable wing shapes from sheet materials instead of trimming everything freehand.
What to tie with it
Use it to punch matching wings and other profiles from foam sheets and fly-tying sheet materials, especially when you want both sides to mirror each other. It also helps when you’re building foam bodies and foam wing pieces and you need the same cut every time.
Flies and the fish they're for
This is the kind of tool dry-fly tyers lean on when they’re cutting right-and-left divided wings for classic mayfly dries like the Adams, which gets fished for trout on rivers and spring creeks. It’s also handy for small, winged dry flies where getting two identical wings is the hard part, and those are staples for selective trout in clear water. When you’re using foam for winged terrestrials and attractors, the durability of foam parts matters for trout and panfish that tend to chew up delicate wing materials fast.
How it compares
It’s more consistent than cutting wings by hand, which is the whole point when you want clean symmetry across a batch of flies.
