Essential fly tying materials???

[byrnsey]

Hey all, new to this forum as you can see and pretty much new to fly tying. Got into it by watching videos youtube and had to get a kit immediatly, howver there are lotsa flies i cannot tie because i dont have the right materials, was just wondering what materials are a must have in your flytying box, mite go shopping for some tomoro

[yellow owl]

hi there watching you tube checkout davie mcphail hes the best out there as for materials depending on what you re going to tie is really all that you need

[byrnsey]

Yeah been watching him alot lol seen near all of his videos, makes it look sooo easy. Im struggling to tie anything that looks remotly like what he ties at the minute, i shall struggle on

[urbanflyman]

it will take time my friend ,and if your learning the right way it will take a long time to get to Davies standard ,but the rewards will be worth their weight in gold .

[BRUCE1]

which type of fishing are you doing ie rivers etc stick to some basic patterns that you can use and progress from there to the flies you want for your type of fishing ..

[byrnsey]

I fish mostly for brown trout on my local river, however the seatrout have started to run the river now so hopefully il get me one of those . Somehow i dont think im at the standard of tying seatrout flies just yet, il meybe just stuck with tying buzzers for the time being thanks for replies

[Jackwow]

Many sea trout flies are just larger versions of traditional trout wet flies. Also others, such as small salmon hairwings, e.g., Silver Stoat, are relatively easy to tie.

Not sure how much use buzzers are going to be on a river?

[ruby pennel595664]

Originally Posted by byrnsey

Yeah been watching him alot lol seen near all of his videos, makes it look sooo easy. Im struggling to tie anything that looks remotly like what he ties at the minute, i shall struggle on

Don't worry too much if your flies are a bit scruffy and don't look up to the standard of Davy McPhail, not many get to his level of skill. Scruffy looking flies WILL catch fish. I tied up some flies for the FF & FT mag competition a couple of years ago, I think they were a type of sedge pattern if my memory serves me right. I rejected most of the ones I tied until the 3 required looked o.k. but I kept the rejects and later fished with them very successfully.

It just shows you don't need flies that are competition standard to catch fish, in fact a ghillie I knew in Scotland used to take a new fly from his box and rub it on a stone or handy rock to rough it up before fishing. Give your flies a go you could be pleasantly surprised.