Fly Tying

Fly tying is the art of creating your own baits (called flies) from different materials for fly fishing.

It's an art on its own and there are even competitions on aestehetics only without any practical fishing purpose.

I learned it on ym own with this book Essential Trout Flies which has plenty of pictures and easy to follow logic.

You can read more about my fly tying discoveries here or following the links below.

However, the most interesting book I know of is The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference, which is not a step by step manual for beginners, but a unique synthesis for all techniques and the materials to be used.

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Flytie, flytieng, flying tying...how do you actually spell it correctly? Flytying, of course!!!

Lets' start form the very beginning. I just started myself this great activity with instructor Antonio Rinaldin at the flyfishing club I belong to

- the Flyangling Club in Milan, Italy - and guess what! I got...hooked!

EXTRA!

And this is what I learned. That fish eat insects which are born in the water, grow, raise to the surface, put wings and fly away. All these stages are fish food. A wet fly is thus an insect in the early stages of his life, a dry fly is instead at the last stage. In between all is possible, so an emerging fly is the insect which has jus reached the surface of the water but has not yet wings which it has to form and dry before taking its first flight in the air - a very vulnerable stage of the insect's life which dangerously put itself at the mercy of predators -.

Flytying books are today very well made. I found two which help me a lot. Especially, here is my note taken from one of them and which starts form the very beginning of flytying: explaining the hook and how to hold it in the vise.

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