So I guess I do spend quite some time to make sure I use the best quality I have, but then I also try to get the best quality material I can (not neccecerily the most expensive) making it easier to just tie with what I have.
I’ve had many necks with ‘nice’ hackles but fragile stems… and we all know that a good quality dry-fly hackle is rather pointless or even useless on a salmon fly. It is more important that they can hold the dye, that they don’t break off mid-cast, or just just snap out of place when wet. But what is good quality? In my opinion it is not simply the straightest crest or the most tapered hackle. The masters of old certainly spent quite some time to point out the importance of good quality materials. And of course exhibition grade flies I guess we leave out of this discussion. Interesting question Piero! I do agree, and like Richard says, there is always a middle ground.Ī ‘good’ fly or a ‘good looking’ fly certainly can have a great difference in quality. IMO the learning process for our passion is composed by a first phase in which we research the perfection of our flies, and a second phase, in which you want to fish your flies, and you need many of them (maybe you are as I am a professional snagger…), and you made economy on tying time and quality material to be on the river with fishing flies at their best. gaining the ability to get the best result, flow and proportion using the standard quality material available and shorter amount of time as possible? researching the perfection of his flies tied spending hours to wrap ultra selected material, or In the specific I think that in the classic age the fishermen used to tie their fishing flies with the material they have available and in shorter time with respect the amount of time I’m consuming to tie one on.įrom the fisherman perspective, should the skill of a salmon fly tier be reached: Dear friends, recently I made a thought on time I spend to accomplish one flies and on the quality of the tying material I use on them.įor example I’m short with gp crests of good quality, died hackles… so I try to use at my best the poor quality material I’m facing with.
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