08-09-2008, 01:05 AM
Throw your $ away if you want, I'll stick with mass produced flies that cost 1/2 as much as flies of supposedly better materials.
I catch plenty of fish on SW flies. The same amount as I catch on Orvis flies of the same pattern and color.
The trick to building a good fly collection is to buy some each time you go. Buy locally to the place you are going to fish, they will really know what is working then and there. Buy 4 flies of a pattern and size. like four, size 16, green elk hair caddis. Then four, size 18 parachute adams and four size 12 parachute hoppers in green and brown.
That leaves one for the leafs, one for the rocks, one to catch fish with and one to go back and say "more of these please"
Buy a large fly box for your first one, about 16 compartments or both sides foam with lots of ridges. Buy the size that fits your largest pocket. Open it and mark the upper left hand corner with a number for the month of the year it is. Place new flies here. Each fishing trip when you buy new flies, place them to the right and in rows below the first. At the end of the year yyou will have a box with the flies of the year in cronological order.
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I catch plenty of fish on SW flies. The same amount as I catch on Orvis flies of the same pattern and color.
The trick to building a good fly collection is to buy some each time you go. Buy locally to the place you are going to fish, they will really know what is working then and there. Buy 4 flies of a pattern and size. like four, size 16, green elk hair caddis. Then four, size 18 parachute adams and four size 12 parachute hoppers in green and brown.
That leaves one for the leafs, one for the rocks, one to catch fish with and one to go back and say "more of these please"
Buy a large fly box for your first one, about 16 compartments or both sides foam with lots of ridges. Buy the size that fits your largest pocket. Open it and mark the upper left hand corner with a number for the month of the year it is. Place new flies here. Each fishing trip when you buy new flies, place them to the right and in rows below the first. At the end of the year yyou will have a box with the flies of the year in cronological order.
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