Fly Tying Kits

White River Fly Shop? Fly Tying Kit - Trout Tying
Price: $59.95
One of the most rewarding experiences in fly fishing is catching a fish on a fly of your own creation. To help you reach that goal, White River Fly Shop have designed this series of fly-tying kits including everything you'll need to learn how to tie your favorite flies, including a FREE instructional DVD featuring Lefty Kreh! In this kit, you'll find high-quality tools, vise, hooks, and materials, all carefully selected to make your introduction to fly tying simple and enjoyable. The effective handcrafting trout kit includes material and DVD instruction to tie the following patterns: Wooly Booger, Pheasant Tail Nymph, Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear Nymph, Elk Hair Caddis, Adams, and Flying Ant. These fly patterns are also excellent for sunfish angling!

Like almost everything else in the fly fishing arena, there is an abundance of fly tying kits designed to attract the angler who wants to tie his own flies. They range in price (and quality) from under $50 to over $200. It's another case of what you pay is what you get.

Buying fly tying kits

A fly tying kit that falls apart after its first use is not going to enamor you of the art of tying flies. So even if this is a 'find out if I like it trial' for you, I recommend that you buy a quality beginners kit. You can always pass it along if you decide fly tying is not your favorite thing to do.

You can purchase a fly tying kit complete with tools and fly tying materials or one with just tools, or one with just materials.

Be aware that a fly tying kit does not necessarily include the tools. Look carefully at what is listed so you won't find yourself with a mass of hackles, threads and hooks but no tools.

The most important of the tools you'll use is the vise. When you purchase your fly tying kit, make sure that the included vise will firmly hold a variety of hooks, small and large.

The kit should also include a bobbin, preferably ceramic, a threader, a bodkin, and a whip finisher. I recommend that you buy the tool kit only. That's where the bulk of your money should go.

Buying fly tying materials later allows you to select those that are suitable for your fishing waters. The generic ones included in some fly tying kits are not always useful other than for practice.

The best and worst of fly tying kits

Fly tying kits are a great way for beginners to have a go at this aspect of fly fishing. They will give you a chance to see what is involved without incurring great expense.

The disadvantages of fly tying kits are that you don't have the selection of tools you have when buying by piece, and you have little choice of what is contained in the kit. The cheaper kits have cheap materials and will not last for very long.

Tying your own flies can turn into a rewarding experience. Using poor quality materials can quickly turn the experience sour. If you are going with a fly tying kit buy the best you can afford and check carefully to see that the tools included are quality ones. You'll be thankful down the road.

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