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I logged onto ebay this afternoon and found for sale (for too much), the tying kit I first learned to tie with in 1973

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Wish I still had the book, just for the nostalgia

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I grew up next door to that company. guy used to sick his dog on me for riding my gokart through his back lot...still have the book and a complete kit along with some other artifacts from the place. I bought the building after he passed and the brother let it go..

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That's awesome! I didn't start with that kit, but got a kit from ll beans during that same time frame with a Thompson A vice and that same book......I still have the vice and book!

 

Mike

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I still have what left of that same kit. I got it many years ago (50 or more I think). Take care & ...

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My downfall.... I remember holding the sewing (fly tying) thread with mom's clothes pins in between tying steps. It was a "tongue sticking out" experience tying the Royal Coachman form Nolls... LOL. My first dry fly caught trout was on a hackle fly in "the bible", seen in the very vise it was tied on. I still have all this stuff....petty me.

 

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I purchased the Noll Guide To Trout Flies way back in 65, for $2.50. Never needed a kit since I had all my dads tools. Still have the book, and my nephew is using the vise. Here is a scan of one of the material pages. Lets see if anyone remembers this store.

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I used to clip the hackle pliers to the thread and use it as a bobbin. When I needed the pliers for hackle, I held the thread tight by slipping it between pages of a book. I still have a few of the flies I tied with that kit, very few. One, I clipped off at the bend and use as a practice fly. It is a little white moth I made up using Lady Amherst crest feathers for wings. The neat thing is that I was going through these old flies, showing my son what I did when I was his age (12 or 13) and he asked me to teach him. That started it all over again.

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I remember spending hours reading the trout fishermens bible from front to back then back to front. I learned alot from that book. I got the book when i was seven or so from an old neighbour who was very a very good fly fisherman. He needed to get rid of his books because he had to many so he threw them all out his second story bedroom window and told me I could take all the books i wanted. I came home with quite a few fishing books many i still have today. Unfortunatley my neighbour passwd away a few years ago to cancer, but I still have much of his fishing books and rock collection.

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My deceased friend left me all his fly tying 'stuff' about 6 years ago. Amongst it was the box that is pictured here. I have wondered if he had gotten the kit and started tying using it? I had been tying for several years when I received his inventory of tying stuff. Feel like I have a shop in my basement now. Ok, there's still things to buy.

BGT

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That's cool. I thought I was the only damn fool to save this stuff. The fly in the vise (if you can see it) was my very first and I still have it. I was maybe 8 years old and a fly to me was a house fly and that's what I tried to make. I was stupid. I taught myself to tie by the light of a Coleman lantern on family camping trips in the Missouri Ozarks in the mid '60s. The Bates book is actually pretty good and I remember buying it at the state park store at Bennett Springs on a trout fishing trip. The Noll kit may have come from the same store but I don't quite remember. I do remember it was marked down because it was missing stuff. The Bates book showed a bobbin so I learned there was such a thing which made life a little easier when I could afford one.

 

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I have a set of hackle pliers and a couple wooly buggers from the early 80s. I joined fly tying club in jr high. Our science teacher brought in all his stuff, he had enough vises and bobbins for everyone to use but not enough hackle pliers so i asked my parents to buy me a set. Who knew you could wrap hackle by hand ;) i tied for those two years then didnt tie another fly until i was 30. I wish I would have stuck with it back then.

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