What did you first start tying?

[moder 0]

Hi this is just to let people know what you first started tying

 

I started tying lures

[Redwings1 0]

Technically I tied marabou jigs and added bucktail to the treble on in-line spinners long before I started tying flies. First flies were wooly buggers and PT nymphs.

[smallieFanatic 0]

I first started tying nymphs, in particular the Wire nymph.

 

 

Jan

[oatka 0]

I bought a fly tying kit years ago, and I think the instruction book had a wooly worm, a wooly bugger, and your standard nymphs......that was the start of it all.

[Old Hat 0]

I tied...

 

Beadhead Hare's Ear nymphs

Pheasant-tailed nymphs

Elk hair caddis

Catskill style Adams.

 

I learned to tie as I was learning to fly fish and to this day I have never bought a fly except for some bass poppers once.

I tied and fished these four patterns exclusively for my first two years of tying and fishing.

[TerryLee 0]

I started with wooly buggers because I was told that if I learned it I could tie anything. I went to Clouser minnows and foam spiders after that because that's what I caught fish on the most (probably still do).

[Pike-Hunter 0]

I am kind of supprised that more people didn't start on the wooly bugger. That was the fly I tied first and it did a good job of teaching me the basics of fly tying. I am still not sure if that first wooly bugger was a good thing or bad thing. :dunno: It got me addicted to one of my favorite things to do but now I spend way too much money on materials.

 

--CHad

[ibian 0]

The wooly worm then the wooly bugger then egg patterns.

[Denis Lamy 0]

Hi this is just to let people know what you first started tying

 

Hi took a class to start and the first fly was an Adams dry fly. Then I went to the Casual dress and other nymphs.

[92Esquire 0]

Green weenie was the first for me. After that, I worked my way through Al Campbell's beginner's series.

[DaddyO 0]

Bead Head PT Nymph tied with Fire Orange thread was my first. I caught over a dozen Rainbows on it before it started showing the wear and tear of the day.

[Nealbo 0]

poppers for bream still one of my favorites to tie

[Bruce Derington 0]

Spring wiggler which was developedby clark Lynn in Mi. http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/fly_pict...ing_wiggler.htm

[spinner 0]

My first fly was a grey hackled peacock wet fly

[willhunsaker 0]

my first fly was an olive wooly bugger / i caught 2 bass on it and 1 crappie before it started to wear down