Top 10 Fly Tying Products

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:47:44 +0000

Very useful vice at a reasonable price – holds hooks, from size 24 to 02 very firmly .

Excellent for tying cone or turbo head flies and everything F.I.T.S.

Superb quality Hackles for tying the ultimate Dry Fly, they come in two sizes small for tying flies in sizes 16 & 18 and medium for tying sizes 12 & 14.

4. Veniards Racoon Zonker Fur

8 colours of 3½ to 4 inch length fur. Ideal for tying on Guideline F.I.T.S. tube system when a tapered tear drop wing is required.

5. Glister Dubbing

Long fibres of high sparkle material which is good for adding extra life to flies. Dubs well onto tubes and can be used for building up a good thorane on crunchers.

6. Ostrich Herl

Comes in 12 colours and is mainly used for tying butts on salmon flies but owing to its extreme mobility can be utilised as hackle for Michael Frodin modern tube flies.

7. Bucktail

Comes in nine colours and is used for winging and tails of shrimp patterns. This product has fine fibres and does not flare when tied.

8. Krystal Flash

Gives life and sparkle to salmon and lure wings and tails. It comes in 10 colours including Gold, Silver, and Pearl.

9. Turral Pre Waxed Tying Thread

A versatile pre waxed fly tying thread suitable for almost all fly patterns. Continuous filament polyester on 70 metre reels in a variety of different colours.

10. Veniards Uni Floss

Comes in 11 colours, including black. Gives a very rich coloured body to salmon flies and enables you to form a very smooth finish.

Fly Tying Materials

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:04:08 +0000

John Norris Bulk Fly Tying Bargain Packs are little fly fishing treasure chests containing all the materials you could imagine for making your own flies. Most fly fishers will have at least some practise in ‘DIY’ fly tying (and, if not, there’s no time like the present to start); making your own is a good deal less expensive than buying ready made flies, and it’s curiously satisfying, too. It’s certainly painstaking work, but you can acquire a pleasing level of craftsmanship relatively quickly, provided you have the right fly tying tools.

Depending on what you’re fishing, you can pick and mix your own bespoke fly tying pack, selecting from items like a ten spool batch of various fly tying threads or floss at £2.99 right up to a 50-spool batch at £14.99, packs of 12 assorted cock or hen hackles at £4.99, plastazote/ethafoam blocks (7 for £6.99), 12 packs of seal fur for at £4.99 … the list just goes on and on (there are 25 different items to chose from). Just select the materials you need for your particular fishing preferences.

John Norris also supplies a fine section of fly tying tools, including an ingenious little vice adaptor, a simple tool that will make a big difference. Those experienced in fly tying will know that one of the fiddliest stages of the process is tying fly tubes. The adaptor fits into the jaws of a standard fly tying vice and, with its tapered collet, permits easy access to the tube. It makes for a far more stable method of fashioning tube flies than the standard darning needle approach, and it comes with three differently sized needles, accommodating small and large bore tubes. All you do is mount the tube onto the needle, press into the adaptor’s collet and tighten the screw. Then get on with some stress-free tying.

Whilst we’re on the subject of fly tying tools, the Gold Loop assortment of scissors clamps and mantis tweezers is simply not to be missed. Just select what you want from the range but bear in mind that the tools are state of the art, made by the manufacturers of top surgical equipment. The scissors have extra large, gold loops, making them extremely comfortable to use (as well as highly pleasing to look at) and have a serrated blade, ensuring precision cutting with none of that frustrating slipping of material along the blade while you work.

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