Fly tying
The Fly Tying the artificial simulating fish food organisms, such as insects, crustaceans, small fish, etc. with the help of artificial and natural materials. A thread is used to wrap material such as chicken feathers around a fish hook . The bait flies produced in this way are mainly used for fly fishing .
Fly fishermen tie their own flies in order to get more catchy bait flies and to be able to deal effectively and productively with their passion even during the closed season.
Reasons for tying flies
For the fly fisherman who is intensely concerned with his passion, bought flies are not enough. The requirements for fishing in different waters are too specific for that. Although the trade offers a myriad of fishing flies, individual components of the fly change over time. Often a different combination of the materials used is enough to no longer achieve the best result.
Required equipment
The most important part of fly tying is the vice. Its task is to hold the hook securely. Another task with many binding sticks is the ability to rotate the hook in order to tie flies more easily or to be able to view them from all sides without any problems. The hooks required for tying flies are mostly special hooks that are tailored to the fly pattern to be tied. From hook size 26 to 9/0 all sizes are represented, especially for dry flies very thin-wire hooks are required.
The binding thread is usually a polyfilament on a bobbin, ie it consists of a large number of extremely fine threads that are not twisted but run parallel to one another. As a result, the binding thread on the hook is not so bulky, you save weight and the silhouette remains slim, if this is desired.
The bobbin with the binding thread is taken up by a thread holder (bobbin). This has the task of making it easier to wind the thread around the hook and to keep the thread under tension when tying. A pair of scissors is an essential tool for processing the binding materials such. B. feathers, animal hair and plastics. A head knot tie (Whip finisher) is not absolutely necessary, but is still very helpful. With this, the binding thread is neatly wound at the end of the binding process and concealed at the same time.
A dubbing needle and a dubbing twister are helpful for processing fur fluff.
Fly pattern
- Dry flies
- Nymphs
- Climbers
- Wet flying
- Streamer
- Salmon flies
- realistic imitations (Superrealistic flies)
literature
- Peter Gathercole: The practical book for tying flies . Successful pattern step by step. BLV Munich 2004, ISBN 978-3-405-16694-6