Flytyer14 0 Report post Posted March 30, 2010 Crappy pic but this is my second popper ever...it's not to good Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flytyer14 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2011 Bump this to the top!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ikerajala 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2011 you might not think your popper is so good but I bet it will catch fish. :headbang: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Li'lDave 0 Report post Posted March 31, 2011 first attempts at a geehi beetle The swap flies (the 2 on the left) my first parachute... yuk! I'm still not great... but get better every time Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flytyer14 0 Report post Posted April 2, 2011 Let's see some more posts!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NJ All Day 0 Report post Posted April 2, 2011 I just found some of my first flies I'll post em later. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhammer 0 Report post Posted May 1, 2011 I still have my first....It's an Alder. Then one of my latest you may have seen, my Crappie Crunch. Hard to believe it's been over ten years already! I was just a little kid when I started. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dafunk5446 0 Report post Posted May 1, 2011 I started tying three years ago, and I have my first fly in a box somewhere...trust me you dont want to see it. I had no idea what I was doing, I used sewing thread...and literally knotted it to the hook to start the thread. You can image what it was like after that. Ha! Here is a fly I did a little while after I started. I stopped tying classic wets for a year, then started on classic salmon flies, and have been at it for almost a year now. Here is a recent one. I also made the hook that was used on that one. So it goes to show with a little discipline...and a lot of wasted material you can learn a lot! I do NOT encourage tiers to jump into classics like I did. I am OCD and love spending money haha. For young tiers focus on fishing and tying fishing flies. Learning the basics is invaluable, and FISHING is more important when your young/beginning. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluegill576 0 Report post Posted May 1, 2011 I still have my first....It's an Alder. Then one of my latest you may have seen, my Crappie Crunch. Hard to believe it's been over ten years already! I was just a little kid when I started. [/quote That is a pretty good first fly! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jhammer 0 Report post Posted May 1, 2011 Thank you! I remember trying to get everything on that fly perfect. I thought I had lost it for a while but I mysteriously found it again. Creepy in a way hahaha. It's a little more chewed up than I remember hahaha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flytyer14 0 Report post Posted May 1, 2011 Those are beauties Austin! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
utyer 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2011 When this thread first started, I (like many others,) knew that my first flies were long gone. Having started over 50 years ago, in 1955, there was no hope of ever finding those first patterns. I loosly tried to copy pictures from an old Herters catalog freely substituting colors and materials as necessary. When we moved in 57 all the tying gear was packed up, and I didn't tie again until 1965. But that winter, I dug it all out only to find the bugs had ruined all the materials. But I had a fine old Thompson vise, some scissors, and a set of hackle pliers, so I started shopping for materials, and started tying in ernest that winter. I haven't stopped yet. I didn't think I had flies left from those days, but while cleaning out an old foot locker in the bacement, I came across a box of about a dozen from those early days. Most were badly damaged, but here are a few of my awful first attemts. First a brown hackle peacock, then a nymph of some sort followed by an ugly stone fly nymph. Finally a couple of really bad muddlers. I will follow up with a second post with some recent efforts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
utyer 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2011 So after fifty years or so, I can sometimes tie some nicer looking flies, but I am still learning. At least they catch fish, and that's what I'm going for. There are some pretty messy looing bugh here too, but now thats the way I want them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jordon W 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2011 I've only been tying a little over a year now but I keep changing what I tie. I started with egg patterns and have hundreds of them now. <img src="http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/2593/eggi.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> I then moved to tying hair wings, These ones I'd say are 6-8 months into tying. <img src="http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/4960/dscn5180.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> <img src="http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/8049/dscn5185np.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> I then started tying anything I could find to a hook and throwing them at pike. What a rush I'm now totally addicted to fish with teeth. <img src="http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/6496/dscn5200p.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> My most recent pike flies are sitting on my desk now, I'll try and take some pictures later to add to this post. WOW I wish my ties could look as good as yours do after the 6-8 month mark. I guess I just need to start making time to sit in front of the vise. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JoeLePaul 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2011 My first try flies from when I was 14 years and just started tying (especially the first one is horrenduous, I used my own hair as material!) And four of my flies one to two years later - at age 15 or 16 - shortly before I stopped fly tying, being in puberty. (I'm 26 now and interested in tying again - see the "newslast" example, tied with Angora Rabbit Wool ) I like the differences Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites