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As a relatively newcomer to the tying world, I will frequently mess up a new pattern. You know like not measuring materials correctly, tying to close to the eye etc. I don’t even bother stripping the material from the hook and starting again. I just grab another hook and give it another try. Might even use my rejects for those fish that are not too choosy. LOL. Now I know that our experienced tiers aren’t faced with this scenario **but wanted to hear from those who share my boat of experience.
Even though I have been tying for about six years now. A good bit of my experience is in the area that you speak of.
I started tying flies about 25 years ago, so I guess that makes me a new commer too.
I used to tie a mean cricket, “blacks and browns”
9 years a go a fleeting carivan took my ability to tie flies away…
talk about no short term memory, if the directions are laying in front of me I have to look back and forth now a dozen times per step…
I have but all given up on mastering flies any more, I still tie them, and yes I fish with rejects, about 99 percent of the time, the other one percent is when some one gives me a flie or I buy one…
Thank god for near sited fish. [angelic] in my case nearly blind sited fish…
I cant even duplicate my own creations… lol… but I still get some enjoyment from it so I keep on picking up feathers… now if I could only remember where I put my fly tieing box I would make me a couple ice flies, the guys are already on the lake catching my gills…
my lake has some trout in it, wonder what it would take to pull one up from under the ice?
… like you I look back and forth at the directions dozens of times while tying a fly.. its not a short term memory thing.. its that I dont know what the heck I am doing..!! [sly]
MacFly
**You know they have a name for that syndrome? ** Its called OLD AGE. [;)]
… and here I was thinking I was just LOST and DONT KNOW WHAT I AM DOING.. [sly]
MacFly
I don’t care how long you have been tying, all the things you brought up DryRod happens. I have gone to the trouble of stripping the hook and starting over but only on ones I give to someone else. For me, I will try anything and the rattier that better. Mojo is constantly yelling at me for not clearing the eye from glue (I just figured he could add a little to the tying table, by cleaning the hole)
It is normal. In fact I think that the new comers are more critical then those who have been tying for years.
…so its not just me making silly mistakes.. its things everyone does at some time or the other?? [sly]
MacFly
Flygoddess is like a hot cup of coffee on a cold morning. i.e. Comforting to you MacFly & me. Lets tie on another one. LOL[;)]
lol.. that is true.. and thats because she loves this sport and loves helping others to learn all they can about it.. [:)]
MacFly
Since I don’t tie any copied patterns and do all original work, I will see a variation of my own pattern from time to time and captalize upon them by adding a few additional tweaks to them in order to create a new recipe.
I often get an idea, try it out, and the end product looks like crap! Other times they come out pretty well. But I rarely strip a hook and most all of them go into one fly box or another. I can look back into boxes and see my progression too! I see a nice one and think, “wow, I was tying great and had a great idea there”. Or see one of the monstrosities and just laugh, “what the heck did I think I was doing there!”