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    Thumbs up Beginning Fly Tying

    Here is a great place to start as well as advance. Hope this is the right way of posting it.


    Beginning Fly Tying

    By Al Campbell


    The normal evolution a fly fisher usually includes fly tying sometime along the line. Some take up fly tying to cut the costs of all the flies they seem to leave in bushes and trees everywhere they go. Others want to try it to increase their involvement in the finer details of the sport. No matter what your reasons are, tying flies seems to be an integratal part of the whole fly fishing picture.
    There have been perhaps more volumes of books and articles written on the art of fly tying than any other aspect of fly fishing. If you subscribe to any of the fly fishing magazines, you have encountered articles that included fly patterns. In fact, a few magazines are dedicated to the art of fly tying. Those magazines will enhance the information you find here and I encourage you to consider subscribing to one or two. You may also want to build your own library of books you find helpful.
    This series is produced using techniques which are the basic building blocks of tying. Each subsequent fly builds on the previous flies and methods. You may wish to bookmark this page for future reference to review a previous technique.

    Part 1 Welcome to Beginning Fly Tying
    Part 2 The Hook
    Part 3 The Fly Vise
    Part 4 Tying Tools
    Part 5 Matarelli-style Whip Finishers
    Part 6 Thompson style whip finisher
    Part 7 The EZ-Nymph
    Part 8 Fall Midge Emerger
    Part 9 SHWAPF
    Part 10 Tailwater and Spring Creek Favorites
    Part 11 All Time Favorites - Hare’s Ear and Pheasant Tail
    Part 12 Hackle and the Woolly Worm
    Part 13 Woolly Bugger and Montana Nymph
    Part 14 Marabou Damsel Nymph
    Part 15 The Basic Dry Fly
    Part 16 Split Tails, Wings and Thorax Flies
    Part 17 Turkey Flats and Hackle Tip Wings
    Part 18 The Adams
    Part 19 Royal Wulff
    Part 20 The Humpy
    I only fish on days that end in Y
    Richie

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    Perfect, you did fine.
    Thanks for posting those great tutorials.

    I'll add the link from that site:
    http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flytying/beginners/

    I was supposed to check that site out awhile ago but haven't had the time. I just now went to it and it looks like a great site. They have a lot of very specific and informative columns we don't have here, and I have no problem promoting them.

    As I mentioned in the e-mail, if you guys post up something from another site please post the link either at the top or bottom of the page. I decide whether to allow links to other forum sites on a case by case basis. I try to be pretty liberal about this. I do appreciate the fact that you asked first, Richie.

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    This is a great post. I'll have to start to read it and tie some flies.

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    Thank you for sharing that, tropics.

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    I hope every one that does any fly fishing, takes a look at it. I found it when I wanted to tye some Wooly Buggers for ice fishing.
    I only fish on days that end in Y
    Richie

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