Tying Flies

Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D



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~Jaime~
"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it."
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rec.outdoors.fishing.fly.tying

"me" wrote in message
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Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D



****************************************
~Jaime~
"You don't have to like it, you just have to do it."
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"me" wrote in message
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Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

There are plenty of books. Look in the Dewey
799 section at any large library.

Clubs are better: look for a FF club where you
live and ask whether it incudes fly tying. (Or
seach via TU or FFF, or ask the sports department
at your local newspaper.)

If any local store carries FF tackle, ask there too.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

me wrote:
Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D

Learning how to flyfish would be a big step in that direction.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"me" wrote in message
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Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D
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Many have expressed that tying is almost as much fun as fishing. I wouldn't
go that far, but when the weather is terrible and you can't go fishing, it
is the next best thing for sure. I see others have already given you the
advice I would have. You will find that this sport is very collegial and
many will be generous with their time. It can get somewhat expensive and
obsessive - my wife, who also ties, made me write that! G

Chris

"Padishar Creel" wrote in message
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"me" wrote in message
It can get somewhat expensive and
obsessive - my wife, who also ties, made me write that! G


As in...I paid 95 bucks for part of a chicken and still haven't had
lunch.....That kind of expensive.
Of course you may tie several hundred flies before buying it again.

Mark

"me" wrote in message
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Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D

You've gotten some good advice so far, and there is probably more to come.
If all else fails, just hang around wherever you can find fly tying
materials for sale. Ask the people you see shopping there. Odds are they
will tell you more than you want to know......and it's just a matter of time
till one of them offers to demonstrate.

Wolfgang
and, no, taking up fly fishing is not a necessary part of the equation.

Wolfgang wrote:
"me" wrote in message
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Hi Fellas

I was watching How It's Made on the Discovery channel recently and
a
fellow was tying a fly. I was intrigued and impressed!!

Where can one learn the fine art of tying flies?

Books and website links will be helpful as well as any other info
you can give me. Thanks in advance.

I would love to learn how to do this. :-D

You've gotten some good advice so far, and there is probably more to
come.
If all else fails, just hang around wherever you can find fly tying
materials for sale. Ask the people you see shopping there. Odds are
they
will tell you more than you want to know......and it's just a matter
of time
till one of them offers to demonstrate.

Wolfgang
and, no, taking up fly fishing is not a necessary part of the
equation.

Now do not flame me for the following please g Get ahold of an Orvis
and LLBean Flyfishing catalog. Might as well get the Cabela's one while
you are at it. Tons of books on the subject and ample photos of all
the equipment and supplies. Run that mental adding machine while you
are at it.It will explain why hand tied flies by a master tier (???)
are not exactly a dime a dozen. I think that loose leaf Orvis fly
typing manual/catalog of patterns are outstanding manuals where every
step is illustrated with either sketches or photographs. Also these
folks sell strater fly tying kits. And be sure to check out those
incredible salmon flys! g

As someone has already mentioned, learning to fly fish will connect all
the dots for you as to why flies are tied in a particular manner; the
imporatance of flotation etc. Then, when it is too cold outside to do
anything except shovel snow or ice fish, you can while away the winter
months tying flies and cleaning reels, deaming of opening day. g

Consider joining your local chapter of Trout Unlimited. Many of them
offer fly tying lessions and workshops.

This is my first post to this list so please treat me gently. g

david

David wrote:
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This is my first post to this list so please treat me gently. g

Why do you think you're so special? ;-)
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TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj/

Tim J. wrote:
David wrote:
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This is my first post to this list so please treat me gently. g

Why do you think you're so special? ;-)
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TL,
Tim
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http://css.sbcma.com/timj/

==== sharpening the point on the gaff with a file... snick snick
snick :-)

David