Must Read for Beginners

[SilverCreek 0]

Beginners often post their first flies for our critiques. Invariably, a major problem is the proportion of the fly = the amount of and length of materials and where they are placed on hook to form a fly where the individual parts have the correct relationship to each other.

 

Here is a must read article by Charlie Craven on dry fly and nymph proportions.

 

http://www.flyfisherman.com/2013/12/13/tying-flies-beautiful-flies/

 

Here's a related article on tying hair wings.

 

http://www.flyfisherman.com/2014/01/30/mounting-hair-wings/

 

I suggest saving these articles as PDFs that you can refer to as needed. FF often takes done the articles after they have been up for a while. The above URLS may not work in a few months.

[eric_sthjrsy 0]

I appreciated the article, I can definitely use the advice. I do have one question that doesn't really pertain to FTF. You mentioned saving this as a PDF, how do you do that from an internet page?

[SilverCreek 0]

I have an iMac and I can go to my print command and there is an option to save as a PDF document instead of printing the page.

 

Alternatively, you can select the portion of the page/pages you want and copy it to a clipboard and then to a text document. If the copy command does not copy the photos/illustrations, I have a shortcut command on my iMac by holding down the (Command/Shift/4) keys, I can cut any part of my desktop as a jpeg file that I can place into the correct place in the text document to recreate the document. Then I save that as the appropriate name.

 

Here are other methods:

 

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20111396-285/five-ways-to-save-a-web-page/

[mikechell 0]

Eric ... there used to be a program for free, called BullZip, that would "print" anything to PDF. When you go to print, one of the printers is "BullZip". I am assuming there are other programs that will do the same.

Or you can get the Adobe program, which is MUCH more than the Adobe reader that comes with a lot of computers.

 

As Silver stated, you can use the "function" key and/or the "PrintScreen" (some print screens are not "function" key necessary).

That will save the screen you see as a Jpeg. You can then open the MSPaint screen, hit paste, cut to the section you want to keep and save it.

[flytire 0]

copy the article

 

paste into microsoft word

 

edit article as required

 

save as pdf

[BigRedNZ 0]

Those are some great guides for proportion.... now just getting the implementation of it correct

[eric_sthjrsy 0]

All thanks for the advice, now you are speaking my language....I know how to print screen which seems to be the easiest method for me.

[flytire 0]

no need to print screen but if that works for you go with it.

 

print screen only captures whats on the screen

[fisherousdotcom 0]

Both of those articles are super helpful for picking up some great tying tips.

 

Also, when you want to save articles like that, and you're a total tech geek like I am, I suggest Evernote. You can use the Evernote web clipper to save a streamlined version of the article and then print it or make it accessible across your computer, phone, tablet, etc, with your Evernote account.

[cckiltflies 0]

Thanks for both articles!