... anything more idyllic than sitting around with a pint of good beer and tying flies for a crisp, fall morning on the upper Bitterroot River. ... , which was cellared  for a year. Though if you drink too many of those, you may have difficulty seeing your flies. That’s OK, just starting tying some big streamers. From the brewery: Wednesday Fly Tying Night Kicks Off Wednesday night fly tying is ...

... a degree in dentistry. Learn the tricks and fundamental techniques of tying flies for trout, salmon, steelhead, bass, panfish, and ... step-by-step detailed photos teaching you the fundaments of fly tying; coaching you on tool usage, hook selection, and material ... 1,000 fly patterns. It's easy to start fly tying by using these basics, and then select the fly you want to tie, and tie along with the ...

... January, a victim of the downturn in newspapers) explains as well as anyone how fly tying is like wood carving and traces his obsession over many decades. "For years, I had boxes of trout flies that never got wet - until I started fly fishing in warmwater lakes and ... ugly, poorly tied trout flies. Eventually I reached the most dangerous point in fly tying - or lure making. That' ...

... central source (whoever offers to organise). The 288 flies are then divvied up and posted back to the contributors so that everyone ends ... neat parachute hackle and will probably require two evenings of six flies each (told you I was slow). Tonight I got the easy bit ... 's been nice to get into some sort of rhythm and further shake off the tying cobwebs ready for the winter re-stocking onslaught. ...

I decided tonight that I am going to tie flies for a friend of mine for Christmas. It gets me tying more and it is a "Free" gift. I tied up three different patterns tonight. I started with the leech ... Humpy pattern. It is supposed to mimic ants, beetles, stone flies, and other insects. Tonight I added a variation that I saw while perusing in Fly Fisherman magazine at ...

... is hosting a fly tying contest for a worthy cause. Every month he will tie a new fly and issue a challenge for others to match his pattern. As the flies are mailed in each month, Brent will pick a winner and feature it on ... right). In Brent’s words, “… you will see that all ice-flies are nymph-like bugs or minnowesque. The fly I will tye will be particularly suited ...

... and White - Tricos and Midges." Wallach began fly fishing and fly tying in Chicago some 25 years ago and has lived in Colorado the past six years. He has fished and tied flies for virtually every fresh-water gamefish in the United States and has operated a custom-tying business, JW Custom Flies. Jim is planning to tie the Darlon Hatching Midge and CDC Emergent ...

... fishable in the Smokies, but it’s that time of year when I start tying the flies. When most tyers sit at the vise they’ll tie a ... work in that pile It depends on the pattern, but I can tie between 9 flies an hour to 2 dozen in an hour. The Rubber Leg Tellico Nymph ... time just putting beads on hooks. Same amount of time, more flies, but a smaller pile I’m planning to hit the stream ...

“There’s More To Tying Than Catching Fish.” So goes the tag line to a brand new fly tying blog, Wolf Creek Fly Tying.  Arkansas Mike seems to specialize in class wet flies.  I’ll be keeping an eye on this blog. Perkin's Ideal by Arkansas Mike

If only! The only thing I've been tying is this quilt. And now that I've got it done I'm not sure I like the dark ties. They sort of look like flies on the surface of the quilt to me. There are so many different colors in this quilt that I had a hard time even deciding on the dark blue that I used. Now I'm ...