Newbie Question: How many fly sizes & colors to tie for next season?

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:50:34 -0000, mdk77
wrote:

Our world seems so hectic, fast
paced and stressful, but when I tie (and certainly when I fish) I can
feel at perfect peace.

I know how you feel. I tie to soft background jazz and the time
passes quickly without stress of any kind.

Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote in
:


David, if you are going to be serious about tying, you should purchase
Ted Leeson's and Jim Schollmeyer's book "The Fly Tier's Benchside
Reference". Anything you ever wanted to know about fly tying is in
this book. It's a wonderful reference manual with step by step
illustrations on hundreds of techniques and dressing styles.

When it first came out in 1998, many of us rushed to the book store to
buy it for $100. Today you can buy it on Amazon.com for $63. I saw
it in a fly shop recently for $60. Great buy.

Dave




Excellent suggestion. Leeson and Schollmeyer also now have a book that's
similarly organized, but geared for beginners, that is also appealing.

The one thing you won't get from the Benchside Reference is patterns-- just
about every technique, but no patterns.

Another good book would be anything written by Skip Morris.

--
Scott
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