Flyfishing flys

Making flyfishing flys (here is a link to an intoductionary section of my website) is another craft which next to making my own bamboo rod I begun.

In this section of my website I am trying to explain the actual making a fly, the way I learned it.

To start with, the best way to learn making flyfishing flys is , I think, by joining an angling club and take part to fly tying courses. This accelerate the learning curve considerably.

As a matter of fact, flytying is, like bamboo rodmaking, not difficult to learn, in the sense that I learned easily the movements and steps required to make a simple fly, but this also confirmed me that to master this craft, years and dedication are required.

Expert flytiers say that you need to make at least 1000 flies before you start beginning to be good at it.

Later on, you might even try to make a fly on 100 size hook as in the picture below.

Next to traditional ways of making flies, I started exploring also non-traditional systems for making flyfishing flies.

• Pheasant Tail Nymph
• Partridge and Orange Spider
• General Emerger (Nymph)
• March Brown Spider
• "La casalinga" (Antonio Rinaldin's creation)
• March Brown Dry
• Fly Ant

Of course there are a few other flies that are quite important: the May Fly, the Blue Dun etc...

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