What did you first start tying for?

[ArkieFlyGuy 0]

Started with trout then discovered smallmouth... :yahoo:

[CharlaineC 0]

My first tie was from a elcheepo flytying kit by labador outdoors. the fly is really ment as a allaround fly but seems to like perch the best.

[agn54 0]

Snook, redfish and speckled trout. Started with deceivers, clousers and surf candies.

[DrVette 0]

I have never tied for any-thing but trout...Well, maybe for some fishermen and some laughs.

[oracle 0]

bluegills sunfish and unfortunaly turtels :wallbash: yea its sad then i started into bass then walleye :yahoo:

[Camo Clad Warrior 0]

For me the journey was a little different. I fishied with a fly rod for years, mostly for trout in the pacific northwests lakes. Then a friend of the family, who was also a fly fisherman, gave me a kit that was less than standard. The kit was his "leftovers". I tried to tye a few flies and realized that it was not easy and would take some practice. It sat in my closet for close to 5 years. I pulled it out last winter and started again, and here I am. I first started to tie for myself. ThanI quickly relized you have to tie for the fish and not myself. Trout was the fish Iwas chasing. I recently had a very large wodden flybox made and stuffed it with a few hundred flies, and gave it to the man who gave me the kit. The man who I have known for my entire life began to cry....one of my greatest fly fishing memories.

[rschrib 0]

I started with the Grizzly Wulff for bluegills to teach my pre teen sons how to fly fish.

 

 

[Halfie 0]

I got into flyfishing because I wanted to catch bluegill on the surface.

My first flies were tied for the exact same reason.

 

About the only stuff I tie is sized to "split the difference" between

panfish and bass. It's a hoot.

[invasionqt 0]

I started tying for trout. I started tying SJ worms and SS leaches to save money. Saving money has went by the wayside and now it is about the pure satifaction of catching fish on something I tie. It is so cool to spend a few hours tying up a set of flies and going out the next day and catching fish.

[Jolly Red 0]

Definitely bluegill, still my main tie. We have a few ponds around here that the state stocks eith trout, but I have never fished for trout. Too much fun to fish for largemouth and bluegill, plus the occasional other specie that will bite on the fly.

[FrequentTyer 0]

I started tying trout flys because I taught myself and all the books I had were for trout flys. I actually used them for panfish and didn't fish for trout for years.

[ditz2 0]

Bluegill

[mybadhabit 0]

I had wanted to tie for trout, that was when I first decided to think about it, but just never got around to it. Then life happened and I thought it would be fun to tie just to tie, and then I read a book called "50 Places to Fly Fish Before You Die", and that set things in motion. I got involved with a fly fishing club and watched them tie, and they tied for everything. Now I tie for bluegill, bass and throw in a few swaps, so that means I tie for all kinds now.

 

Blane

[CRRS 0]

Was a woolly Bugger for Trout.