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Do you tie your own flies or buy them?

Tie my own
- 33 (91.7%)
Buy them
- 3 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 36


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Bone

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Fly Tying
« on: February 01, 2006, 11:45:35 AM »
just wanna see the percentage of fly tying people to non fly tying people.
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Sterling C

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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2006, 04:49:58 PM »
I voted tie my own but to be honnest I still buy some (most) patterns which I haven't learned to tie yet.
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2006, 07:26:39 PM »
Both....

Just learning....   but developing a new addiction to say the least.  NOw if I can just catch a fish on one of my home jobbies!!!
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Bone

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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2006, 11:36:32 PM »
Quote from: nigglesworth on February 07, 2006, 07:26:39 PM
Both....

Just learning....   but developing a new addiction to say the least.  NOw if I can just catch a fish on one of my home jobbies!!!

i just stumbled across a fly tying site: (flytyingforum.com) check it out.
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2006, 09:20:25 PM »
I voted for buy...but sometimes I just bum this off my brother who ties!  I really should learn to do this myself!  ;D  My favorite one he's made is the one he made with my dog's fur.  YES we caught fish with it!  Gotta love the "Hanako fly"  ;D
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2006, 01:09:47 PM »
Interesting to see that most people who use fly's also ty them, or at least the ones who voted in the pole.
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2006, 01:15:57 PM »
Quote from: fishin_chick on February 09, 2006, 09:20:25 PM
I voted for buy...but sometimes I just bum this off my brother who ties!  I really should learn to do this myself!  ;D  My favorite one he's made is the one he made with my dog's fur.  YES we caught fish with it!  Gotta love the "Hanako fly"  ;D

Man! I knew you could use dog hair for flies. I thought i was just crazy for thinking of using dog hair. :)
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2006, 01:29:23 PM »
It's from my Shiba inu.  (Japanese breed dog.  She has some neat fur, golden in color, but kinda coarse, depending on where on her body you get it from (when she's shedding of course!)  When my brother and I went fishing and he actually caught something with it, we were laughing in hysterics!  too funny. 
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2006, 05:05:54 PM »
I ty the flies for the shop. then i buy them. so where do i fit in?  ???
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2006, 11:25:39 PM »
I tie mine own and have been doing it for 16 years now :P  Here's one of my own patterns in action
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2006, 09:01:44 PM »
killer damsel!
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Re: Fly Tying
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2006, 05:59:13 PM »
I use my SouBoo (South Cariboo Special) when the damsels are moving. Bwi this is another one of my unconvetional patterns, it looks more like a crankbait than a fly when it is moving in the Water; but it works like a hot dam. This one has a reversed hackle, my guess is that's the trick.
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