02-26-2010, 08:36 AM
I agree with the posts above, there is more.....
Yes, you can spend 000s on it, but you don't have to. that applies to everything in life.
Yes you can "go pro" but you don't have to.
Yes you can have flies instantly without having to go to the shop or mail order, but you can still into a flyshop too and make a purchase of new and stimulating flies to copy at home.
But some things have not been said yet :
You don't have to buy Whiting or Metz quality everything. Like most things you get "normal" adequate quality mostly, and "add a little fizz on top" of super quality stuff confined to the area that inerests you most. So the cost can be made to vary to suit you.
For instance you can buy a chenille for every color fly body, or you can could instead chop wool and dub it into a fur body of the texture you require.You can buy an expensive jungle cock cape for putting eyes on flies, or you can use a matchstick to put a dot of white paint on their heads instead.
So cost is adjustable to suit you and how much of a tackle junky you are!
Now consider this: sometimes you can't go fishing, it's dark, or icy out there, or the fish season is "closed". You can still "do fishing stuff" and tie flies for use later.
Better still - fly tying beats TV by a huge margin. There is nothing so relaxing as concentrating on making a batch of flies just to suit your requirements.
But even more, when you catch fish on flies you tied, every fish is elevated into an even better experience.
When you open up your wallet of flybox, looking around at your world of fly imitations inside is really cool and satisfying.
And you can invent and create for almost free! Wonder what that fly would be like with a red head instead of black? Done! Are gold hooks better? Tie up identical flies one on bronze the other on gold, fish a dropper and swop positions until YOU KNOW FOR SURE which is better.
I sometimes use tiny flies in places where huge trout feed. Occasionally I had a hook straighten when I latched into a monster. Now my tiny flies are tied on tiny specimen wide gape carp hooks. The hooks are stronger - a lot stronger - and their gape is wider, so one of my 24 size flies has the hooking power of a 16 "standard hook" version.
I could go on . But it can be boiled down to this: if you are "into" flyfishing, you will be more into it when you tie up your own flies.
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Yes, you can spend 000s on it, but you don't have to. that applies to everything in life.
Yes you can "go pro" but you don't have to.
Yes you can have flies instantly without having to go to the shop or mail order, but you can still into a flyshop too and make a purchase of new and stimulating flies to copy at home.
But some things have not been said yet :
You don't have to buy Whiting or Metz quality everything. Like most things you get "normal" adequate quality mostly, and "add a little fizz on top" of super quality stuff confined to the area that inerests you most. So the cost can be made to vary to suit you.
For instance you can buy a chenille for every color fly body, or you can could instead chop wool and dub it into a fur body of the texture you require.You can buy an expensive jungle cock cape for putting eyes on flies, or you can use a matchstick to put a dot of white paint on their heads instead.
So cost is adjustable to suit you and how much of a tackle junky you are!
Now consider this: sometimes you can't go fishing, it's dark, or icy out there, or the fish season is "closed". You can still "do fishing stuff" and tie flies for use later.
Better still - fly tying beats TV by a huge margin. There is nothing so relaxing as concentrating on making a batch of flies just to suit your requirements.
But even more, when you catch fish on flies you tied, every fish is elevated into an even better experience.
When you open up your wallet of flybox, looking around at your world of fly imitations inside is really cool and satisfying.
And you can invent and create for almost free! Wonder what that fly would be like with a red head instead of black? Done! Are gold hooks better? Tie up identical flies one on bronze the other on gold, fish a dropper and swop positions until YOU KNOW FOR SURE which is better.
I sometimes use tiny flies in places where huge trout feed. Occasionally I had a hook straighten when I latched into a monster. Now my tiny flies are tied on tiny specimen wide gape carp hooks. The hooks are stronger - a lot stronger - and their gape is wider, so one of my 24 size flies has the hooking power of a 16 "standard hook" version.
I could go on . But it can be boiled down to this: if you are "into" flyfishing, you will be more into it when you tie up your own flies.
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