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So my wife surprised me with a vise and other tying necessities for X-Mas!!! I'm pretty excited to get started. The whole thing is a little overwhelming, especially the materials. I have two basic questions right now:
1. What is a good book geared towards beginners, that includes good flies for the west coast?
2. Where is a good website for materials?
Other than that, any tips anyone can give me for getting started would be great.
Thanks all.
P.S. I'll post some pics as I progress, for pointers.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]There is a lot of great fly tying books out there, but one in particular, that I feel is a must is the Fly Tier's Benchside Referrance book. It tells you how to tie any fly from woven to beads, and all the different material to use for different flies. Get that book and then one with the pictures of the flies and the ingrediants like Fly Patterns Of Umpqua Feather Merchants and the first book will tell you how to tie anything in the pictures. Remember too, most fly patterns will list each material in the order you put them on the hook.[/size][/black][/font]
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[cool][font "Poor Richard"][green][size 3]Alright there Discman now I'm not the only newbee on the tyers bench. I have a couple of instructional books that I have found most useful. One that came with my vise [including materials] which is "Basic Fly Flying" and "Fly Tying Made Easy for Beginners". Also I have found numerous sites on-line that are instructional videos and other sites that give sep by step instructions [non-animated] on how to tie various flies. Will post their URLs later. Good luck.[/size][/green][/font]
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Hey Discman! Weclome to the world of fly swatting. There are several patterns that are effective here on the west coast.
Some of my alltime favorites and "Go to" flies would be the Renegade, Wooly Bugger, the San Juan, WD 40 and the Olive Matuka.
Those are generally better for the planted trout, Native LMB and most of the general Sunfish Varieties.
There are other patterns that are good for saltwater if you are interested.
Where are you at on the west coast? Perhaps we can hook up at the Fred Hall Show in March at Long Beach. During that time and season, the flyfishing is good from the shore by the Belmont Pier.
Lots of good sized Barred Surf Perch come around and hit on some of the bigger streamer patterns.[cool]
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I'm not on the coast, but check out your local library. The one here in town has several good ones that I can borrow and I save my money for supplies. Like I need more stuff. Fly tieing is a great hobby. I hope you enjoy it.
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I'm actually in Fresno, and do most of my fishing, for trout in the foothills and the high Sierras. I don't get much of a chance to get to the coast, or So Cal for that matter, hardly at all.
Thanks for the tips.
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OOpps! Did not realize I was not logged in.
[url "http://www.troutflies.com/"]http://www.troutflies.com/[/url] - hears a San Carlos Website with a few nice tutorials
There is another northern california website, personal website, that has lots of good patterns but I can not locate it right now.
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[url "http://flyfish.ableweb.net/flytyingtips.htm"]http://flyfish.ableweb.net/flytyingtips.htm[/url]
but it is not the place I was thinking of.
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