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A Natural Progression
Now that the nights have drawn in, and the weather not conducive to pleasurable fishing, i think thats its a natural progression for me to learn to tie my own flies. This past season Tony has been incredibly kind with the donation of his time, effort and materials, donating many tiny works of art to me, but i have slowly but surely become embarassed by his generousity especially as i lose the majority of them in the trees.
Three weeks ago, Phil-K invited me to accompany him to Bolton Fly Tying Club who were having a guest tyer giving a tying demonstration. It was a great evening, and it convinced me that its now or never. I had already taken a look at a beginners website www.learnflytying.co.uk and decided that i would start off with a few of the beginner patterns from the beginners video demonstrations.
Tony donated an old vice, and i bought some fluff and stuff from www.flytek.co.uk
Despite only fishing buzzers very occaisionally they seem to be the easiest fly to start off with. These four took me an hour, they might be scruffy but i will see if they work later this week.
Good start get sum fluff stuck on with that wire rib n your on to a good little river bug .
Looking at the 27inch female brown trout, I would say it was at least 8lbs. Also it could be a slob trout just up from the Mersey Estuary.
Well done Mike.I have got a load of fly tying stuff coming this week.I am hopeing to tie some spiders as I have no faith in buzzers but it would be nice to be proved wrong by you catching a few on your creations.;)
Mike,
Oh you’re on a slippery slope now my man; fishing, blogging…. and now tying. Wave your last vestiges of sanity goodbye.
Hope you found Flytek’s stuff of high quality. Pat is a lovely guy and very helpful. He lives near me so I just pop round and rummage through his stuff…and he never complains!
He’s a river angler primarily and stocks the stuff he would use himself, it is very good stuff.
Nice buzzers by the way, they will certainly catch alright!
M
hi mike, you looks so enthusiastic with your new activity together with your friends…and the fish below looks so big, good work…
thank you for the comment, you right mike, I should not compare the political boundaries and humanity or cultural life…correct my thought and my writing in my new posting later…thank you.
anyway, one day I will add some fish pict in my blog too, it’s seems so interesting..