Tools and Materials needed

The tools and materials listed below are what you need to tie the flies listed on this website. Effort has been made to keep the list as short as possible. We’ve also tried to keep the techniques needed to tie the selected flies as simple as possible. If you wish to learn more flies later, you’ll need to get more supplies. You’ll also need to learn more techniques. There are many excellent books on fly tying and fly fishing that can be borrowed from your library.

Tools

• Vise
• Lamp
• Bobbin
• Bobbin threader
• Scissors
• Pliers (needle nose)
• Bodkin / half-hitch tool
• Hackle pliers
• toothpicks

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Materials

• Hooks (Mustad 9672, size #8 and Mustad 3906B, size #10) *
• Black thread, size 6/0
• Vinyl rib, fine
• Red wool yarn (ask for a piece from someone who knits)
• Black chenille, medium
• Olive green chenille, medium (brown is fine if olive is unavailable)
• Grizzly hackle *
• Black marabou **
• Green marabou **
• Copper wire
• Silver tinsel (medium)
• Pheasant feathers (type used for tying hackles on wet flies)
• Pheasant tail
• Plastic freezer bag (for cutting into strips)
• Bead eyes ***
• Peacock herl
• Head cement

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* The hooks and grizzly hackle are expensive items. See if you can get together with one or two other people, make these purchases, and then share.

** Make sure you get strung marabou, the type that does not have a hard stem.

*** You have a choice. 1) Buy the smallest diameter bead necklace material from a hobby shop and cut them into sections or 2) Buy commercially prepared bead eyes from a fly fishing shop.