Here are a few tying tips for you.... 1) Chose and lay all materials out for a particuliar pattern before tying. For instances, let's say you are tying Wolley Buggers. Chose all the marabou plumes and size all your hackles. Weight (or bead) all your hooks before tying. All spooled material should be on a bobbin (a few exceptions here). It's just a matter of getting into rhythm from here.
2) Scissor never leave the hand (already mentioned, but his saves a tremendous amount of time) 3) Head cement all your flies at the same time 4) Tie a dozen or so at a time. Your fly inventory will grow to large proportions! I have numerous 12" x 18" 24 compartment boxes that I store my flies in. From here it is a matter of chosing which patterns to take to fit where you are going. More specifically, I place nymphs in one box, dries in another, streamers by themselves, etc.... One rule I follow: the more flies the better. The day you don't bring enough different patterns, is the day you wish you had- never fails. With reference to tying speed/time, I do have one shortcoming. I never use chenille. Never have, never will. I like all my bodied dubbed. I feel it makes a more attractive and effective fly. My motto, "The buggier, the better." Hope this helps! John > -----Original Message----- > From: Willy Gevers [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FlyFishing efficiency tips? > > As I get older my responsibilities have increased and it becomes more > challenging to fish as much as I would like. One of my personal goals is > to > become more efficient and streamlined so that I can best take advantage of > opportunities to fish that come along. Many of the people on the list have > great ideas based on years of flyfishing. What are your best tips to make > your flyfishing and flytying more time efficient? I'll share my most > recent > changes: > > 1. I have seperate chest packs and rod tubes each loaded with the gear and > rods necessary for my major types of fishing (saltwater and trout). The > rod > tubes are the type that carries the rod and reel attached. There are some > redundancies of gear in the two packs - but the only item necessary to > switch from one pack to the other is my license - reducing fiddling around > time and hassle. > > 2. I took my 20-30 most commonly tied fly patterns and for each pattern > loaded an 8 1/2 x 11 clear zip loc bag with all the materials necessary > for > that pattern and labeled it as such. Again, a lot of redundancy but now > everything is organized and ready to tie in bulk amounts. And, if we are > going on a longer trip I can quickly grab the bags with the patterns I may > need to replenish during the trip. I also bought a second vise, and a > complete set of tools packed in a small container for road trips. >
