Fly Tying Materials from Craft Stores
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2021-01-03に共有
** While I encourage every tier to support your local fly shops, I also realize everyone doesn't have an unlimited budget to support your tying endeavors and I don't think there is anything wrong with saving a few dollars here and there. Happy tying! **
Savage Flies is a project with the mission of encouraging and teaching fly tying to as many people as possible. The channel is named after one of my western Maryland homewaters, the Savage River. I've been uploading at least three new videos a week (usually Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday).
Thanks for stopping by. Please let me know in the comments if you have any tying tips you would like to share or if you have any patterns you would like to see tied here.
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did you use all your hair for tying?
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This has become something of a Christmas tradition for my stepdaughter and I. She lives in Alaska but spends Christmas with us so when she’s here we make more than a few trips to the craft stores in our area. I comb the aisles for potential fly tying materials and she for all the stuff she has a hard time finding locally in AK. Once we get home I tie, she knits and we plan our next craft store sortie 😂.
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these 2 budget fly videos are one of the best fly tying videos i have ever seen
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I have been using these stores for years. You can also get those boa wraps for about a 4-5 foot rope of marabou feathers. They come in many different colors.
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Matt, thank you for the inspiration. I have no fly shops near me. I have had to purchase online mostly and the products are pricey. I like getting good bargains at Hobby Lobby, sometimes from stores that sell fabric have good buys on threads. Some of the first bluegill flies that I tied were from scavenged materials. I still pick up feathers around a small lake where waterfowl preen out feathers. Elastic rubber that is small comes free from old stretching clothing. Yard sales have 10 cent thread, crochet yards, and knitting for 25 cents.
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I like to use tinsel off the Christmas Tree and also that Easter grass material for makin nests in the baskets
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I use those floss organizers as fly boxes for my Egg patterns. Thanks for the video Matt, great info!
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Great stuff. We have chickens, ducks, a blue slat turkey and rabbits on our property. We collect feathers at the local duck pond when we go to the park. Your environment can provide lots of materials as well. Thanks for the great info.
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I find a lot of yarn, some new in the packaging, from thrift stores. My wife is a knitter, so we are in competition with each other at times. 😉Fortunately, I use synthetics and she mostly uses 100% sheep wool and alpaca, so it all works out. I have found nearly full skeins of synthetic yarn for as little as 10 cents, average 25 to 50 cents, never more than $1.00. I also often find foam sheet and googly eyes, etc. in the craft areas at my local thrift stores. Good luck.
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I use walmart and hobby lobby a lot. I found some nice soft foam sheets for 9 bucks. Large stack and I only had to buy it once. I've never used the yarn, haven't thought of that, but I have used pipe cleaner on some throwaway crappie jigs. Craft fur and feathers are great too.
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Those wool rolls are awesome, I have a few at my desk , they have more than enough material for the money
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The fish don't care where the materials come from! In fact, I caught four trout one afternoon in about 10 minutes on an elk hair caddis, the second one tore the elk hair off (I was a beginner tier and didn't glue the thread) and I didn't want to stop and re-tie, so I just through a hook with a green dubbing that was left on the hook and caught two more in a row! It was crazy they just responded to the green thorax!
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Yarns, embroidery floss, organizers, seed beads, craft foam.... Never want to put the local fly shops out of business, but this can certainly help a new tier...or an old sage!
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Matt, a man after my own heart, millions of materials out there (and cheap).
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This is good information. I am a combat veteran and have been trying to find a good therapeutic hobby. I don’t want to spend much until I get more into tying but I do enjoy trying to fly fish so hopefully tying my own will help me. Thanks again
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Tinsel, I discovered years ago that the craft/hobby stores load up on tinsel type decorations in several colors, lengths and width sizes during the holidays, especially the Christmas holidays and when those days end (and sometimes even during that time) the tinsel and most other decoration are reduced 40-60 percent. I haven’t bought any tinsel in at least four years. The tinsel is a material that I recommend you go 50-50 with a friend because you get so much for very little. Thanks for the tips SF.
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I picked up 3 rabbit pelts at Hobby Lobby for about 35$ black, white, and tan. It will take a long time to use them up.
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Matt I go to this place in bemidji to buy wool string and they have many different colors. They are perfect for tying flies body. In many different ways to use. The place is called bemidji woolen Mills great products and they are excellent to use
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You're a great resource for the non professional weekend warrior tyer. Thanks Matt.
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Great info. Keep them comming out. Thanks
