I purchased a new Nor-Vise this past Friday at the local fly fishing show and have spent the weekend and the last few evening getting use to it compared to my conventional vise. I am making some progress but I could use some advice.

The conbination of the automatic bobbin and the vise was a bit much for me so I am focusing on the bobbin. I am tying flies on my conventional vise with the automatic bobbin. Any secrets getting the retraction mechanism started on the first fly being tyed? Any other words of wisdom on handling the bobbin?

The vise is a nice piece of equipment. However, I had difficulty using it with a bead head pattern. It seems the vise shines with things like streamer, buggers and steelhead flies but how about typical trout dry flies and nymphs? And dubbing is not as simple as the video. How long does it take to master this?

Thanks in advance.

Dr Bob