How 'bout things you wish someone would have told you when you were starting out?

[Jack Hise]

Dental floss can be used to make fly's fatter or shape bodies.

[Fly Goddess]

Not to mention, used as a fly line for light action dries....

[Uncle Jesse]

Not to mention, used as a fly line for light action dries....

Is that before or after you use it for dental floss?

I just wish someone had told me something. I didn't know anyone who I knew was a fly tyer when I started and still do not know many locally. Thankfully there are some good books and Miss Ellis and Miss Ruby taught me how to read a little.

[Steve Molcsan]

That old rod in the garage will catch fish just as good as that new one.

but:

I am glad I had to find out for myself that the best lunch ever is the PB&J one with my Son on our favorite stream...


Twelve years later still hooked together by PB&J lunches........ forever

[Fly Goddess]

Is that before or after you use it for dental floss?

I just wish someone had told me something. I didn't know anyone who I knew was a fly tyer when I started and still do not know many locally. Thankfully there are some good books and Miss Ellis and Miss Ruby taught me how to read a little.

I would say that is a matter of choice and maybe what you have been eating, LOL
And for me Steve, it was a Tuna sandwich on Wonderbread made by my best buds son.

[TyroneFly]

Automatic bobbin by Nor Vise.

[Gandolf]

Hi All,

One more vote for only buy material for patterns you plan to tie in the VERY near future.

You've all heard the old joke about the guy plowing with a mule that hit the mule in the head with a big stick before telling the mule to whoa. Well, I think I'm not much different from the mule. I am not sure that extremely good advise would have taken hold without the big stick.

At any rate, that is the single most important piece of advise that I wish I had learned....may still need to learn it from time to time, but at least am slowly improving in that area.

Regards,

Gandolf

[dudley]

the way the fly looks in the vise is the way it will look in the water.
They don't compress due "water pressure"
Wild, overdressed flies will always look that way

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