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Old 09-05-2011, 05:42 PM
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The young son of a friend has just received a tying kit for his birthday, and he is now looking for an absolutely basic beginner's book on tying. Can anybody help with suggestions?
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Youtube has a great selection of instructional videos-you can see how the flies are tied.A good book for general patterns is the fly tyers bible by Peter Gathercole


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Davie McPhail

all his videos are master classes, easy to follow along to and theres 193 videos to browse he has everything from buzzers to nymphs, salmon flies to spey flies everything any beginner should watch and learn from a master at the vice

also fly tyiers bible and north country spiders are good books for beginners

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Thanks, lads.
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The step by step pages on this forum are also very good.

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David cammiss has got some good beginners fly tying videos on youtude too....
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Skip Morris "Fly tying made clear and simple"

Excellent despite being from the US!
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Thanks again, guys.
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the fly tyers bible by Peter Gathercole

as a beginner myself i have found this book very usefull. loads of patterns and instuctions on how to tye them.

still trying to perfect the griffiths gnat but hey ho..
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