On Dec 28, 6:28*pm, Mark Allread none@none wrote:

That brings up a thought... I'll have to find a source for fly tying
materials in the Yakima to Ellensburg area unless I want to drive down
to the increasingly misnamed "Tri-Cities" for stuff.

Look into buying materials on-line. I think most tiers probably do
that these days. I do. It seems to me (purely anectodotally) that many
shops have cut back on in-shop inventory because demand has shifted on-
line, or they've established on-line stores themselves.

I may well be the least effective fly-fisherman in eastern washington,
so the phrase "then you can't catch fish" rings ominously.

Thas a good reason to keep it simple with patterns. If you can't fish
effectively with the basic patterns you won't do any better with more
specialized ones.