From Cabelas, this is a solid kit to get started on, UF-318118. You can find this on the website. The notion that kits are just junk that companies are dumping is being dispelled and new kits are being geared toward providing the tools, instruction and materials to tie very specific flies for starters. The market has adjusted to favor new tyers. For $50 bucks you get stuff to tie 100 flies and time to figure out if it's for you. A lot of the advice you will get here will have you spending a couple hundred bucks to get to that same hundred flies and figuring out if it's something you enjoy. If you get there and still want to tie, then you have functional gear and opportunity to take your time upgrading gear as your wants and budget meet other. If you think it sucks after that 100 flies, you still have 100 flies, which can catch fish, no matter how ratty they are. You also have a vise and tools that you can throw on ebay.