Fly-tying Materials.

[Teifi Terrorist]

Just received some of these and was quite impressed with the quality, especially for the price:

cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-X-HOLE-GUINEA-FOWL-SKIN-DYED-BLUE_W0QQitemZ220024839656QQihZ012QQcategoryZ23816QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-X-HOLE-GUINEA-FOWL-SKIN-DYED-RED_W0QQitemZ220024843140QQihZ012QQcategoryZ23816QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Thought this was a nice idea, glow in the dark silicone tubing for tubes, waddies etc.

cgi.ebay.co.uk/SILICONE-TUBING-PACK-OF-5-LENGTHS_W0QQitemZ220047873753QQihZ012QQcategoryZ23816QQcmdZViewItem

Worth a look anyway.

TT.

[lancsflyman]

Can anyone give me a list of materails i would need to tye my own sea trout flies, without having to buy a suit case full of materails.

I would like to tye mainly snake flies and tubes, as they are a bit expensive to buy,

[Paul Dunstan]

To tie up some basic but perfectly adequate sea trout flies you'd need very few materials.

For tubes;
A selection of plastic and aluminium tubes from 1" to 2 or 3".
For bodies - Gold / Silvar dual mylar (gold on one side, silver on the other) or some gold and silver mylar tubing.
Winging material - Black squirrel or arctic fox.
Hackle - for throat hackles, a few packets of say black, red, orange and blue. (if you used Arctic fox for the throat hackle you'd have an extended range of colours for winging as well!)
Maybe a packet of pearl krystal flash to put a couple of strands of sparkle in the wing.

For snakes;
Same materials with the addition of 25lb braided mono to make the mounts.

With this restricted range of materials but with flies tied in a good range of sizes I wouldn't feel too limited if I that's all I had for the season. (Please God don't let my wife read this or our rubbish bins will look like the morgue at London Zoo!)

[lancsflyman]

Thanks for your advise paul,

Any good supplies you could recomend or should i buy off ebay ?

Can you recomend any quality hook.

cheers Paul

[Paul Dunstan]

For quality materials..........................

Lakeland - great service, consistently good materials - pure quality!

www.lakelandflytying.com/

Also, Celtic Fly Craft - really nice people.....

www.celticflycraft.co.uk/

For tubes & snakes I love the Partridge Trebles - X3BL.

[lancsflyman]

Thanks once again Paul D

I've had a look at lakeland tying, looks quality gear,

Cheers