sexyloops flytying school part 1 intro

t.z. | Friday, 18 September 2015

opus manuum - handycraft. Doing things with your hands. Bringing imagination to life. Imagination is the key. Without it you can not create. You have to have an idea in your head - long planned or rather spontaneous to create something.

Fly tying is bringing an amazing amount of imagination to life. An imitation of life if you so will. This takes technical skills which can be learned. Don´t be afraid. It is not that hard, but very very rewarding on many levels.

The most obvious reward is that you´ll be catching fish with your creations. I am sure you will. The other is the very process itself. Making things with your hand is very cool. Looking at your „finished product“ fills you with pride. It should. Even Paul does it.

So in the next few weeks I will be following up with explaining the techniques I use for tying flies. Once learned the basic techniques you should be able to tie pretty much any pattern. The basics are pretty similar for all flies.

Please visit the boards fly tying section if you have questions and ideas. Don´t be shy to ask. Sexyloops is the most informative website on matters flyfishing and has a broad rooster of very helpful people around which can answer pretty much any question about the topic. - warning: there might a good deal nerdiness involved

If you want to learn fly tying you can also get in contact with me directly. I have taught the subject for some years and since Skype the world is not too big any more.

We´ll get started next Friday with the first article about basic thread techniques.