03-16-2009, 01:49 PM
If you are not prepared to spend several hundred dollars over the course of several years buying materials forget about tying flies.
Making your own flies is a break even at its very best ... if you fish a lot and can limit yourself to tying just a dozen different flies you always use. But who can do that?
It sounds like Brook may have done that in the beginning many years ago. But then there was not much available and not any where near as much information readily available.
Every new fly you want to tie takes a material you don't have.
Yeah you can do substitution of materials but you can not stop yourself from getting another material for that other fly that you know is going to work better than what you have been making. A fly which you are totally bored with tying Besides you and your buddies already have several dozen of what you have made.
Who hear has not spent a lot more for materials than they ever imagined when they started out?
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Making your own flies is a break even at its very best ... if you fish a lot and can limit yourself to tying just a dozen different flies you always use. But who can do that?
It sounds like Brook may have done that in the beginning many years ago. But then there was not much available and not any where near as much information readily available.
Every new fly you want to tie takes a material you don't have.
Yeah you can do substitution of materials but you can not stop yourself from getting another material for that other fly that you know is going to work better than what you have been making. A fly which you are totally bored with tying Besides you and your buddies already have several dozen of what you have made.
Who hear has not spent a lot more for materials than they ever imagined when they started out?
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