02-22-2008, 06:34 PM
...could just be my mood..
faol is a competative site to this. the link you posted is to that site....
..as you say there are numerous excellent videos available on the net that can be found by doing a google search..
.. have to say here that my first finishing tool was as scruffy mentioned.. it did not rotate and therefore it made finishing off the fly darn near impossible.. that is when I started looking at alternatives.. I eventually got a decent finishing tool that rotated but it is not a martarelli... I also bought the half hitch tools to give me an option.. or different way to do the same thing.. I figure I will tie flies best when I am comfortable with what I am doing.. if that means using a whip finishing tool.. or a half hitch tool.. or doing it by hand as Mr Cammis does.. then that is the way I will do it.. all of this is me keeping in mind that no two things are alike.. whether it be people.. or skill levels.. or as in nature.. flies.. or bugs or birds or fish.. or whatever.. each is unique in its own way.. and in the long run I dont think the fishies look to see how well a fly is tied.. but they do look to see that that fly looks like something they are used to eating.. just my .02
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faol is a competative site to this. the link you posted is to that site....
..as you say there are numerous excellent videos available on the net that can be found by doing a google search..
.. have to say here that my first finishing tool was as scruffy mentioned.. it did not rotate and therefore it made finishing off the fly darn near impossible.. that is when I started looking at alternatives.. I eventually got a decent finishing tool that rotated but it is not a martarelli... I also bought the half hitch tools to give me an option.. or different way to do the same thing.. I figure I will tie flies best when I am comfortable with what I am doing.. if that means using a whip finishing tool.. or a half hitch tool.. or doing it by hand as Mr Cammis does.. then that is the way I will do it.. all of this is me keeping in mind that no two things are alike.. whether it be people.. or skill levels.. or as in nature.. flies.. or bugs or birds or fish.. or whatever.. each is unique in its own way.. and in the long run I dont think the fishies look to see how well a fly is tied.. but they do look to see that that fly looks like something they are used to eating.. just my .02
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