Comments on: Fly Tying 101 A Lot Like Water Ballet http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/ CHRISTINE WARREN Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:18:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roger M. Jordan http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-21405 Roger M. Jordan Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:07:38 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-21405 I really love fly fishing. The reason I love fly fishing is that it requires a certain skill to get it right. Another thing about fly fishing is around here where I live, nobobdy hardly does it. My favorite fish to catch are Trout. Great post. I really love fly fishing. The reason I love fly fishing is that it requires a certain skill to get it right. Another thing about fly fishing is around here where I live, nobobdy hardly does it. My favorite fish to catch are Trout. Great post.

]]> By: Aubrey Kornn http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-19953 Aubrey Kornn Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:05:11 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-19953 This is a useful blog, I located your web site doing research aol for a similar topic and came to this. I couldnt get to much additional information on this post, so it was good to discover this one. I will certainly be returning to look at some other articles that you have another time. This is a useful blog, I located your web site doing research aol for a similar topic and came to this. I couldnt get to much additional information on this post, so it was good to discover this one. I will certainly be returning to look at some other articles that you have another time.

]]> By: jeff http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-15591 jeff Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:03:29 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-15591 Chick, I think you should consider hosting a fly-swap. One of my pals at the Upland Journal does a swap every year. The experience level varies from newbie to professional-tyer. It isn't a competition, so much as a community function...something I bet your fans would enjoy. See the flies from the 2009 swap here: http://www.uplandjournal.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard312a/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=10;t=48710 Jeff Chick, I think you should consider hosting a fly-swap. One of my pals at the Upland Journal does a swap every year.

The experience level varies from newbie to professional-tyer. It isn’t a competition, so much as a community function…something I bet your fans would enjoy.

See the flies from the 2009 swap here:
http://www.uplandjournal.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard312a/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=10;t=48710

Jeff

]]> By: The Fly Fish Chick http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14166 The Fly Fish Chick Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:45:57 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14166 can you tie a fly with armadillo? can you tie a fly with armadillo?

]]> By: Monty Montana http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14164 Monty Montana Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:51:17 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14164 I will only add one small detail...ROADKILL...you live in the roadkill mecca. You can get some great tying materials on your way home form the honky tonks on firday or saturday or monday or any damn time. Yea I got it too....addicted up to my butt. Monty Montana I will only add one small detail…ROADKILL…you live in the roadkill mecca. You can get some great tying materials on your way home form the honky tonks on firday or saturday or monday or any damn time.
Yea I got it too….addicted up to my butt.

Monty Montana

]]> By: The Fly Fish Chick http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14163 The Fly Fish Chick Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:50:39 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14163 love all the feedback and direction! excited to delve into this new layer of the addiction. which is, of course, not what I need....another all-consuming passion that keeps me from responsible chores and money-making ventures c'est la vie yall will be the first to know when I try my hand at the vise!! I can't wait to start inventing patterns because I have been storing up good fly names for years. the list morphed somewhere along the way--it used to be a list of good band names. now, flies.... hope everyone is getting into the holiday spirits (oops! I mean "spirit"!!) love all the feedback and direction! excited to delve into this new layer of the addiction. which is, of course, not what I need….another all-consuming passion that keeps me from responsible chores and money-making ventures

c’est la vie

yall will be the first to know when I try my hand at the vise!! I can’t wait to start inventing patterns because I have been storing up good fly names for years. the list morphed somewhere along the way–it used to be a list of good band names. now, flies….

hope everyone is getting into the holiday spirits (oops! I mean “spirit”!!)

]]> By: JGR http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14162 JGR Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:37:12 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14162 I'm surprised you are now just getting into tying. I started about five years ago and have become so wrapped up in it that I've started helping out with classes in my fly-fishing club. The good part is that it will save you a fortune if you are a heavy fly fisher OR if you're like me and hang flies up in trees and under rocks. Try Hook and Hackle for your basics. They give a discount if you buy online. A good beginner book to try is one of the Skip Morris books. I’m surprised you are now just getting into tying. I started about five years ago and have become so wrapped up in it that I’ve started helping out with classes in my fly-fishing club. The good part is that it will save you a fortune if you are a heavy fly fisher OR if you’re like me and hang flies up in trees and under rocks.

Try Hook and Hackle for your basics. They give a discount if you buy online. A good beginner book to try is one of the Skip Morris books.

]]> By: Harry http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14161 Harry Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:59:34 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14161 LSU flyfisher is right. It's an addiction. Before long you will have piles of materials and find yourself constantly on the lookout for cheap materials. I am also an addict. On the bright side though, I bet you can get a great list of economical places and materials from your readers! LSU flyfisher is right. It’s an addiction. Before long you will have piles of materials and find yourself constantly on the lookout for cheap materials. I am also an addict.

On the bright side though, I bet you can get a great list of economical places and materials from your readers!

]]> By: Jim@FFO http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14151 Jim@FFO Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:22:31 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14151 Wish I had a decent shop nearby, but I have to rely on the intertubes for supplies. Never thought my tying area would look like I collected roadkill but the real drug dealers are the dudes who sell materials online (Hook&Hackle, coffin creek, etc.). Ebay will clean out your wallet for hooks and thread too. -Jim Wish I had a decent shop nearby, but I have to rely on the intertubes for supplies. Never thought my tying area would look like I collected roadkill but the real drug dealers are the dudes who sell materials online (Hook&Hackle, coffin creek, etc.). Ebay will clean out your wallet for hooks and thread too.
-Jim

]]> By: LSU flyfisher http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/comment-page-1/#comment-14149 LSU flyfisher Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:03:10 +0000 http://flyfishchick.com/2009/12/22/fly-tying-101-a-lot-like-water-ballet/#comment-14149 Be careful, be very careful - you are starting down a very slippery road for which there is no way back - I mean tying flies. Once you start nothing else is good enough unless you caught it and you tied it. Heck, I am already tying flies for a trip to Long Key in April while I wait for my materials to come in to tie woolly grubbers and slumpbusters for spring smallmouth. You start with fizzballs and woolly buggers and before you know it, you are tying anything you can get a pattern on and have half a room full of furs, feathers, thread and all kinds of glittery stuff. I know, I have the addiction. Be careful, be very careful – you are starting down a very slippery road for which there is no way back – I mean tying flies. Once you start nothing else is good enough unless you caught it and you tied it. Heck, I am already tying flies for a trip to Long Key in April while I wait for my materials to come in to tie woolly grubbers and slumpbusters for spring smallmouth. You start with fizzballs and woolly buggers and before you know it, you are tying anything you can get a pattern on and have half a room full of furs, feathers, thread and all kinds of glittery stuff. I know, I have the addiction.

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