Work in progress
Accident! The vise "kelp" me. Don't play play. Fly tying is dangerous
My Fly tying bible (by Peter Gathercole). Look like the picture?
A charlie using pink mono scrape lines
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Showing posts with label clouser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clouser. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Fly by Night
My first attempt in the proper tying of flies using the correct techniques, after spending an obscene amount of tuition fee. However my skills are still far off. Hopefully, it will improve with time. I am seriously lacking a proper pair of good scissors. Couldn't snip off the tiny strands of streamers at the joint. >:(
Work in progress
Accident! The vise "kelp" me. Don't play play. Fly tying is dangerous
My Fly tying bible (by Peter Gathercole). Look like the picture?
A charlie using pink mono scrape lines
Work in progress
Accident! The vise "kelp" me. Don't play play. Fly tying is dangerous
My Fly tying bible (by Peter Gathercole). Look like the picture?
A charlie using pink mono scrape lines
Monday, January 21, 2008
Advent into fly tying
Thompson "A" Vise
I happened to come across someone selling off his fly tying vise. It looked interesting, and I was thinking of doing some fly tying myself. Although not into fly fishing, the use of flies in out waters can do wonders. Peacocks can be effectively gotten by charlies and clousers.
So I managed to get hold of the vise for a $50. This was an authentic D.H Thompson "A" vise. Though I was not an expert in this, I had heard the name many times. Therefore, the vise should be quite expensive originally. Searching on the Net, the vise would cost about $100US.
My fly tying materials
I drop into Coho the next day, asking for some fly tying materials thinking just to tie a clouser. I left the shop spending another $50 for a bobbin, fly tying materials, threads, beads (for eyes), crystal flash, size 2 mustad hooks and special glue for finishing the joints. Coho was nice to let me try tying one myself and taught me the ropes on the techniques, and I managed to tie my very first clouser.
A nice lady intro me to a fly tying set, which actually cost only $105 thereabout. I had already spent that much, and only got materials for tying clousers. :(. The set looked not bad at all and came with a nice guidebook on fly tying patterns.
Flies that I have now
Clousers
Charlies
I happened to come across someone selling off his fly tying vise. It looked interesting, and I was thinking of doing some fly tying myself. Although not into fly fishing, the use of flies in out waters can do wonders. Peacocks can be effectively gotten by charlies and clousers.
So I managed to get hold of the vise for a $50. This was an authentic D.H Thompson "A" vise. Though I was not an expert in this, I had heard the name many times. Therefore, the vise should be quite expensive originally. Searching on the Net, the vise would cost about $100US.
My fly tying materials
I drop into Coho the next day, asking for some fly tying materials thinking just to tie a clouser. I left the shop spending another $50 for a bobbin, fly tying materials, threads, beads (for eyes), crystal flash, size 2 mustad hooks and special glue for finishing the joints. Coho was nice to let me try tying one myself and taught me the ropes on the techniques, and I managed to tie my very first clouser.
A nice lady intro me to a fly tying set, which actually cost only $105 thereabout. I had already spent that much, and only got materials for tying clousers. :(. The set looked not bad at all and came with a nice guidebook on fly tying patterns.
Flies that I have now
Clousers
Charlies
Saturday, March 11, 2006
The 2 That Got Away
Went to LSR for more training on PB catching. Trying clouser fly this time. Got 2 catches...small size PB. But hook slipped out when reeling them in. Hook not sharp enough?
Clouser
Clouser
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