TYING DRY FLIES WITH DRY CELL FOAM - Eye of the Guide - December 07, 2009

rtidd · December 7, 2009, 4:45am

I have encountered many fly tiers that have an aversion to materials that are not natural. Both in the United Kingdom and United States, I have heard fly tier?s say: ?Well, Bergman didn?t have any of that?, or ?Halford would never have used something like that!?, and so on and so forth.

lastchance · December 7, 2009, 3:33pm

I think many flies were created by the availability of new materials that eveloved over th years.

Rick_Z · December 11, 2009, 7:36pm

Many of the natural materials used in flies of yester-year are now not available or they are illegal.

Rick

Ray_Kunz · December 20, 2009, 7:31pm

I don’t think I’m an elitest but while the substitution of material for stuff no longer available seems perfectly logical, I am repulsed by using things like wobble lips, jiggling eyeballs and rattles. Worse yet is that they still call them flies and not lures.