"I'm a craft-strore junkie. I can spend hours in a craft store looking for sythetics, feathers, and other items that I might be able to use in fly tying. I've found lots of useful items in these stores: beads, foam of all types, feathers, threads, yarns and other fabrics."

~From 101 INNOVATIVE FLY-TYING TIPS
by CHARLES R. MECK
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this goes to show that even some of the best tyers buy cheap materials. to sum it up basically use what ya can and get tying

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