Fly Tying Tips and Hints

The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast

James Hathaway

Bass, Fishing, Bonefish, Wilderness, Flyfishing, Trout, How To, Steelhead, Bluegill, Fly, Orvis, Sports, Salmon, Panfish, Education, Rosenbauer

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2014

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

This week is all about fly tying. I took a whole bunch of questions that came in over the past week (thank you very much for your great questions) and we spend about an hour going over some tricky and not-so-tricky questions. The hardest one for me was to list the essential fly tying materials every tier should have on his or her bench (and I was not allowed to use CDC, rabbit fur, or peacock herl, which made it even tougher) and it took me two days to decide on that one. I ended up cheating and coming up with a trout list and a saltwater list. Other questions included emergency procedures for when you break your thread, when to use wax, most under-utilized materials, substitutes in fly-tying recipes, tips for tying with deer hair, and many others. Don’t forget that this month, fly tying materials at Orvis are 20% off, so now is the time to think about what you’ll need for next season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide podcast with Tom Rosenbauer,
0:07.0	bringing you tips, tricks and techniques to help you get the most of your time on the water. Here's your host, acclaimed fly fishing
0:15.3	author and lifelong fly fishing enthusiast Tom Rosenberg.
0:21.6	Hi and welcome to the Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast. This podcast is being recorded on
0:27.0	February 3rd 2014 and we should really call this one the Orvis Fly Tying podcast, Fly Tying
0:37.0	Guide Podcast because it's going to be almost entirely on fly tying and I'm going to try to answer all of the cool fly tying
0:48.7	questions that I've gotten in the past week or so and February is fly tying month so I'm going to do more fly tying
0:57.9	Podcast so please keep your um please keep your questions about fly tying coming in. It's a great time a year to tie flies.
1:08.0	Most of us don't have very good fishing this time a year and even if we do it's probably not our
1:16.4	favorite kind and even if you live in the south you still have to deal with
1:20.8	frequent coal fronts so nearly all of us, unless you live south of the equator,
1:27.3	have a lot more time this time of year to prepare for next season and if you're anything like me
1:36.8	You're totally worthless at preparing for the coming season
1:41.0	Every year I say I'm going to tie a jillion pheasant tails and
1:46.1	parachute atoms and worm flies and bigger streamers and I somehow never get around to it so I hope you're better than I am at
1:57.2	disciplining yourself I will tie some flies this winter but I know I'm not going
2:00.9	to tie anything near what I need.
2:02.6	So anyway, it's a good month to tie flies.
2:06.3	And there are a couple incentives.
2:08.8	One is that nearly all the flytime materials on the orbit website are 20% off this month.
2:16.0	So you can save yourself some dough.
2:19.1	We all know that getting into flytime doesn't save you any money or much money unless you discipline yourself to only
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