Fly Tying With Common Household Materials

[Elton]

I don't tie flies, but if I did, I reckon that this book - CLICK HERE - sounds like a good purchase!

 

Anyone here read it?

[Worms]

I don't tie flies, but if I did, I reckon that this book - CLICK HERE - sounds like a good purchase!

 

Anyone hear read it?

No, not yet!

 

I've been creating flies from allsorts since a kid. Modern favoured materials include: the metallised plastic that computer components come in...great for shellback nymphs and beetles. Dog hair, my springer produces great dubbing for an Adam's. Lead foil from wine bottles is a great leaded nymph adjunct. Hot melt glue available in different colours, makes great nymphs with realistic legs when teased out with a needle whilst still hot!

[Elton]

No, not yet!

 

I've been creating flies from allsorts since a kid. Modern favoured materials include: the metallised plastic that computer components come in...great for shellback nymphs and beetles. Dog hair, my springer produces great dubbing for an Adam's. Lead foil from wine bottles is a great leaded nymph adjunct. Hot melt glue available in different colours, makes great nymphs with realistic legs when teased out with a needle whilst still hot!

 

My mate Nic, who sometimes comes to the fish-ins with me, wants to start tying his own flies. He's a resourceful chap and I reckon he'd like this one. I might see if he'll buy it and then pinch a look at it

[Steve Walker]

I have some resident dubbing generators.

 

[John S]

I reckon I'll be buying that book soon Here's a few tips I've picked up over the years....

 

Crisp packets are a good supply of tinsel - silver on the inside or a variety of colours from the outside. White dubbing comes from my dogs too, and copper wire from leccy cables. Thin plastic foam packaging when carefully cut makes any fly a floater (polystyrene or cork for thicker bodies), and thin latex is good for making wing-cases. 'Poxy resin spread thinly over part of your hand and allowed to dry can then be peeled off and carefully cut into thin sections for use as legs or feelers. Hair from your comb can also be used as dubbing. Collecting the heavy foil from wine or spirit bottles is great fun.

[Worms]

A great one for peeping caddis imitations is to use the 'cuff' from a latex glove. A nice slim 'string' of latex that, when exposed to a flame blackens and swells nicely giving a very realistic white grub with a black head. A bit of lead foil as weight, dub the body with dog hair and hey presto, a cracking caddis to bounce off the bottom for grayling.