A place to discuss the collecting and tying of classic flies, the tyers who made them famous, the tools, materials and techniques they used as well as the waters they were designed for. While classic is generally used to describe old things, classic is also used in the sense of first class or in the highest form. Therefore a fully dressed Salmon Fly, or a Carrie Stevens Streamer are just as much classics as a Chernobyl Ant would be. Enjoy the forum.
Midge fishing is my weakest area of the sport. Sure, I've caught many on midge patterns--griffiths gnats, mainly. A thread midge called Al's rat. But...
In another thread, I said I needed a huge fly box to organize all of my flies and someone suggested I get a typesetters drawer. Well, I found an old...
Hi, I found some nice vintage salmon flies and I need help with identification . Here are some photos of two of them . Both are 3/0 . Thanks for the...
Until current Catskill winter months, flies whipped up recently were tied on a very irregular, as-needed basis. Thus I'm not always opening my bottle...
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