flyboyutah

being new to the area . I ve seen the plaques next to memebers names honoring their accomplishments in the yearly " tie off " . I was woundering how that works , what styles , time limit and how they are judged. and so forth . thanks guys

i had basicly the same problem. a few things i found out was 1. on the smaller treads i switched to a good ceramic bobbin 2. check the tensen of spool and bobbin fit ( take the thread end in thumb and finger of one hand and with other hand pull bobbin down , it should only take a slight amount of pull for the spool to spin between the bobbin then you can control the amount of tension on the thread the amount of "squeeze" you put on the bobbin "legs". 3. keeping the bobbin tube clean 4. dont let the thread twist. 5. AND LIKE MY BUDDY TOLD ME WHEN I FIRST STARTED PRATICE PRACTICE PRACTICE hope it helps u

Ha, every 1 here is one of those fly pic. Hope u like it , its my version of the Mormon Girl streamer. Hope it loads right, not all that good with the e-mail / paste thing.

I as a begginner i picked up "The fly-tying Bible" as one of my first books it has most of your basic flies. From dry, wet , streamers and few nymps

hi everyone , sorry for the long delay on the intro. Im Steve from Utah (transplanted) . Pretty much just started into fly fishing and tying. I like to thank my wife and a buddy @ work . Wife for wanting to go fishing , we both hadn't been since kids. And for my buddy for willing to teach my wife and I a few basics in the art of fly fishing. And the type of person I am ,why buy if you can make yourself, it was off to the local sporting outlet store . With a list in hand, started the fun and enjoyable art of tying. I would like to thank everyone on FTF for the vast aray of patterns to choose from. :thumbup: Hope you guys and gals don,t mind Ive been making pattern cards for the various style and making a sort of data base to tie from. Is that Okay ? Don"t want to break any rules of FTF. Thanks and hopefully Ill can get the camera from wife to show some of the flies Ive done so far.

steelie , you may want to try SPIRIT RIVER INC .COM . They only deal through dealers i quess but they have a few dealers for michigan not sure which for you thou . hope that points you to possiable fly shop near by