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Here are a few, but most tied a few years ago now.
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I was ate up with fly tying for 10 years, attended several classes by individuals and Orvis. Tied so many different styles I've forgotten most of 'em
and used every kind of material I could find and think of. The strangest material was pencil erasers and rubber "O" rings. Used every kind of foam and
burlap bag thats been made and collected more fuzz and fur from dead animals than I care to remember. Road kill was not safe when I was on the road.
Got a #3, #5 & #7 wt fly rod and one day I walked in and looked at my bench and said, NO MORE! Found a younger feller that wanted to get started
and gave him 99% of my materials, kept my vice and a few materials I thought might be handy and a number of sizes of hooks that I enjoyed tying on.
A couple of friends I fly fished with passed out........but like was said above, I got enough to last me a lifetime if I don't take a spill in the river and loose
too many at one time. LOL Never got into tying jigs for crappie and don't want to take the time anymore cause I got just enough time to fish all I want too. Hobbies are nice and can occupy your time and you can make a little money at it if you want too, but now......I'm too old to take the time to do stuff like
that now. But, I ain't too old to fish and enjoy my time on the water and eatin' some good healthy food with fish as the main course. I enjoy lookin' at your
jigs & flies and know what its all about. Enjoy yourselves and enjoy fishin' with 'em.
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I also tie a good many of these.
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This! I've been fly fishing since the 50s and fly tying since the 70s. Do more fishin than tying now but for warm water stream fishing those are my favorites! They also work very well on Crappie in the lake.Quote:
Originally Posted by skiptomylu
Ok on flies like the Woolly Bugger that you use lead wire as the base, is it better to use lead or lead free? Also what is a good price range for the lead wire, and copper wire for the other flies? I've just gotten some of the wire from like Hobby Lobby, but was wonderin if I should use other stuff.
I bought my lead wife several years ago so not sure. As for coper wire and color wire I have had it a while too so not a good source. I bought them all wholesale anyway, but feel sure your Hobby Lobby price was probably as good as you will find or that is what I would think. Just don't know for sure and have enough wire to last me a long time. Maybe fish will have a better idea than I do.
ACSooner, if you can find an old small electric motor like the ones used on stove vents you can take the motor apart and have enough copper wire to last 5 lifetimes.
This is a fly I tied using the copper wire.
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Yes a motor is a great place for copper wire! I have some I got off one and filled 3 empty spools I has from thread.
Those are some sweet ties my friend. I tried my hand at a few c flies but soon realized I was OK but not good at most of them. I made some pretty good Clousers though. I caught fish mostly on handcrafted wooly buggers and streamers.Quote:
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