A friend of mine at work brings me the weekly outdoor section of the newspaper. There is a fly patern in almost everyone and he says "do you tie that?" I always say "yea". That was one of the things that got me practicing tieing was to look in the outdoor section at the pattern and then try to tie it till I got it right. Lately they have had some new ones so it has become a game with us to tie this new flie in how many tries till it is right.

If you are new to tieing and have this option in your local paper try it. Tie the flie of the week every week until you tie them all.