Hello
Hello our there. New to fly tying and this board. Figured I'd say hello. I will fish for anything that swims but my favorite fishing is in saltwater and warmwater species. Got a vice and some ba |
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Renzetti Traveler Vice NIB
This is a true rotary vice made by Renzetti in the US made for that travel kit you always wanted to take along while your wife shops. The model number is T2003R Travelers Base -Right Hand model. It h |
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New materials crossing the line??
My own personal definition of fly tying requires the use of thread to attach the materials to the hook. I dont really care what the material is - natural or synthetic. if there is no thread involved |
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Microcables
Hey everyone, long time no talk to!!
Got a question. Found some fly tying material in an estate sale box that we purchased.
They are called Microcables. They are "formed of twisted copp |
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Hellgrammite
Thanks for the replys everyone. And yes the biots take alot of time tying in while dubbing the body(at least for me). I had three bobbins tyed to this monster at the same time. Started late last night |
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WTB used fly tying outfzit
I'm looking to buy a used fly tying outfit, maybe from someone that may have lost interest, or may have upgraded to something better. This is my first time at fly tying. At this time I'm in Pe |
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My Fly Tying Bench
This was originally a computer desk that came with my bedroom set, but I needed a fly tying bench so I filled it up with materials and got it all organized. |
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Hellgramite Swap
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Im In if that is ok. Not su |
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Olive & Olive
[img]http://www.danica.com/flytier/hweilenmann/olive_olive.jpg[/img]
[b]Olive & Olive[/b]
Hook: Grip 14723BL #14
Thread: Benecchi 12/0, black
Hackle: Hen, dyed light olive
Body: Fluey barbs from |
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My first fly
Hi southernRoller7,
That's not bad at all for your first fly! I would make a few more just like it for fishing and keep that one in a very good spot so you never lose it. If you really get b |
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Bass Drugs
At night I'd recommend any color... as long as it's white. The color isn't for the fish (they're likely to eat anything if the size is right and the presentation works).... the white |
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Hi from Louisiana
Been lurking around here for awhile and really like this forum. I live in Southern Louisiana and mostly fish for bream and bass. I also do a little tying. I've already picked up a lot of good i |
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Please view this topic
looks fine. I normally don't use that exotic of materials like most of those (bear, badger, ect), but if you want them then go ahead and order. You can call if you are nervous about payment or any |
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Fly Tying Bench - Dustin Guyette
nice, I love the desk. I really love the fact that if you run low on materials, you can just take a weapon of your choice and get some more. very cool
Rob |
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New Member in Florida
Hello..
I've been fly fishing since the mid 90's off and on but just started tying this past December. Bought some tools to just tie up my own take on some San Juan Worms and then went to tyi |
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Fly Tying Bench - Foamation
My tying room is full dedicated to warm water and salt water tying.
I mostly tie foam flies and shape, sand and paint all of it. Poppers and divers and well as other off the wall creations are done |
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fly weighting materials
I am into fly tying only for about 3 years and totally new to the FLY TYING FORUM. In some places in Canada it is prohibited to use fishing lures containing lead of any kind and that of course include |
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9 Months baby!!
well done that man, I am trying to give up myself
& I know its not easy.
The money your saving must be great for flytying
materials. |
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Help with fly tying
Hey George,
Welcome to the community. I would like to say I agree with Blugill. You can find affordable kits online or at bass pro etc. One thing to remember when you start tying is: You can spend you |
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Fly Tying
Need some advise. Where can I buy fly tying equiptment at a resonable price,first of all I'm a nursing home patient wanting to learn the art of fly tying ,as I have plenty of time on my hands. May |
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Hatches Blog Post - Ross CLA Fly Reel
Hatches Fly Tying Magazinewill@hatchesmagazine.com,,USA[url=http://hatchesmagazine.com/blogs/Hatches/2012/01/12/ross-cla-fly-reel/]View the full article[/url] |
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Bead Head Soft Hackle
Hi,
There are no hard, fast rules regarding fly tying, and I have seen beads used as a thorax on other flies. Personally, I have been tying and fishing wingless wet flies for many years and feel addin |
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My first fly from EP Video Tutorial-Finger Mullet
Chef, that certainly looks great!
I got to watch him in person at the Orvis shop here in New Orleans year before last. I doubt he is tying thick, it must just seem like it on the video as one of t |
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Going to PA
If you're going to be in Hamburg then take a lot of money. The big Cabela's store is right there.
You can be in the Allenberry piece of Yellow Breeches in about an hour-and-fifteen-minute |
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RBF: Ferrel wraps
Well I have been putting another rod together and I was just wondering about ferrel wraps. How big and are they a must have on rods. I know in the past they were there for strength and to prevent th |
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BendBack
You take a hook and bend it back (opposite direction of the hook point) a little bit near the eye, then tie on wing materials on the same side as the hook point. It rides hook point up like a clouser |
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RBF: New year brings price increase...
I know how this business works, so usually small price hikes do not surprise me much. And I am not here name the site, but just letting others learn from my mistake. I built a few rods for a guy jus |
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How much $ tied up in fly tying??
I was doing a mental calculation on how much money I have invested in fly tying. Including the vise I estimate I have almost $3000 dollars tied up in material and tools. I love tying dearlybut my |
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Benched
Sorry to hear of your back/neck . But your flies look great and with any luck you'll have plenty tied by the time you take to the water again.With this down time from fishing maybe you could try a |
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New tier to the forum
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Ohh Man. I started with one kit now I have storage containers upon storage containers of stuff! Welcome
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Foam Question
Hello all,
I just recently have started tying my own flies, and I have a question about foam bodies. I was given some cylinder foam bodies (they are very thin), and I was wondering if someone could |
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dubbing
I've been thinking about tying blaze orange elk hair caddis and using them for indicators. Anybody know of a company that makes blaze orange dubbing? i've found orange and ice dubbing in ora |
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Nano Silk
Almost 6 bucks for a single spool of thread? Whoa.
Haven't seen Nano Silk, but 10/0 Power Silk is available from [url="http://www.flytyingspecialties.com/"]Fly Tying Specialites[/url]. |
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RBF: Hello
Just wanted to intriduce myself, lurked around this site for long enough to build my first few rods and learned quite a bit from the gifted builders on this site. I already have an addiction to buildi |
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First popper build
I have used wood filler, and on smaller poppers I have used Loon UV Knot Sense. I can fill the gap, level it off, hit it with a UV light, and paint it. No waiting.
On a side not, my New Year's |
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FTF Fly Pattern - nyFLYguy05 - Congo Hair Baitfish
love congo hair as well - just got my order of water silk hair and the mixed color congo hair, both great stuff, the water silk is a tiny bit less so called dense than the congo hair, but for baitfish |
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Tacky Epoxy
I have recently started tying epoxy flies and keep having the problem of leaving them on the drier for a couple of hours and having them still tacky to the touch. I try and keep the mix equal, but ha |
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Fly Tying Bench - bluegill576
The table is a cheap plastic folding table and I store most of the materials in the little drawers. I store my most used threads on the thread holder from joanns and my tools in the renzeti tool caddy |
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from Charleston, South Carolina, Hello!
Im fairly new to fly fishing and tying ties. I have gotten into the groove of the actual fishing part and wanted to get into tying flies. My favorite things to fish for are trout, and largemouths in |
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January Prize Giveaways
This month I will be giving away more than just fly boxes, I have a small mountain of items that I will be digging through. Prizes might be fly boxes, DVDs, books, gear, etc.
Here is a list of ways |
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Everglades report, 10 January
With several cancellations this past week I was only on the water one day - and that was just after the coldest night of this winter season. Even a day later, water temps were nearing 51 degrees as w |
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Merry Christmas Fly
I have been giving people clear Christmas Ornaments with a classic dry fly hanging in them for the past two years, and they have gotten rave reviews, but this year I wanted to mix it up a little. Aft |
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Muskrat and Mallard
Nice tie Dustin! How are you tying in the mallard? I love the nice clean profile.
Mike. |
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Why I don't fish much in the fall/winter
[quote name='Flyman416' timestamp='1326159812' post='489122']
Thats a nice buck but i dont really see how "interior decorating" is related to fly tying Or are you |
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Weaving Horse Hair and Building Flies
I have been weaving for a while using different types of material. A few weeks ago, I began using horse hair, and horse mane primarily, after reading some work by [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/w |
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List of Ingredients for a tie
I started tying after many years away just like you. All the new stuff was mind boggling. I just watch the forum and ask a question here and there. I do a lot of substituting and I very little hackle |
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NEER Hair flies
I bought some several years ago to use on saltwater baitfish patterns, and was not particularly fond of it. It matted & kinked too easily IMO, and really didn't have an action in the water tha |
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Fly Tying Chicago
For those of you in the Chicago area, the Illinois Smallmouth Alliance (ISA) with a little help from the DuPage Rivers Fly Tyers (DRiFT) has organized a fly tying gathering scheduled for January 21st. |
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Fly Tying and Dogs
I have a Pitbull/Dalmation mix. She likes to sniff any package I get, and particularly natural tying materials, but otherwise doesn't seem to have any interest in any of it. She does like to lay a |
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RBF: 4' hand wrapper jig
ROD WRAPPING JIGAfter browsing through several rod building catalogs and websites, I looked at 2 foot wrapping jigs and 4 foot units as well and decided on a 4' plan. I figured out what I wanted in a |
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Need Some Advice on a Fly
Many tiers that I know long ago came to the same conclusion that you have - synthetic wings don't have much movement (unless you're moving the fly). That business of mixing synthetic and natu |
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Blue Wing Olive Pattern Asssistance
Flytire,
I am sure it was a paraloop method, but do you think using the mono string for the loop caused the instability of the tie? The only thing that came apart was the mono loop, hence the grizzly |
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Hello from Venezuela.
Hi guys, i'm Oscar from Venezuela, i make a post before introduce my self , sorry for that.
I'm fairly new in the fly tying world, so i'll keep reading and making some questions.
My fis |
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Hatches Blog Post - Tying the MOAL leech
If you’re looking for an easy variation of the MOAL Leech, look no further. Jay Nicholas demonstrates step-by-step instructions for tying this great steelhead fly. For more fly tying videos, che |
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Fly Tying Bench - riffleriversteelheadslayer
These images could be of my own desk but for the fact that I don't have the extension on my Danvise and
I have other non-fly tying things on my desk. It is good to find a kindred spirit. |
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0.10 Mylar Question
The suggestion of buying them premade was for the benefit of the original poster and he should be able to choos if he wants to or not. It is an alternative and there are other materials that can be us |
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January Specials @ J. Stockard Fly Fishing
[size="4"][/size]Ring in the New Year with big savings at J. Stockard Fly Fishing! Take advantage of our specials for January (the links below will take you directly to the sales):
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Weekly Fly Tying Contest #5 Vote Here
Ok I like the wet fly idea and we can do it after the next week because I already told somebody I would do something. Sorry I didn't post one this week I have been really busy with school barely g |
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Articulated Streamers
Normal in fly tying? There are a lot of different materials based on the fly and the fish. Wire for toothy critters is not necessary for trout. I use two different systems. Some patterns I will simply |
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Flies for Virginia
We're getting ready to move from Connecticut down to the Virginia Eastern Shore, and I've been tying some new crustaceans, etc., that I plan to try out down there. Most of my patterns don' |
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