Despite the fact that there exists perfectly great reasons to tie your own flies, I am finding it very difficult to actually step off the plank attempt my first creation. I was so proud of myself when I returned home after Christmas with my "Beginner’s" Fly Tying Kit. The only problem was that when I [...]

Due to various and numerous encounters with tree branches ‘on my six’ my tippet has been getting rather short. Since I now have a new package of tippet (which is just expensive mono-filament), I needed away to tie this small diameter line to my leader section of my fly line. All the sources I checked [...]

The labeling on tippet packages was troubling me in my previous post. To find out what the 4X, 5X, _X mean on the packaging, Alistair, from Urban Fly Fishing On The Kelvin set me straight. He says:
Essentially the tippet material is the section you add on to you tapered leader, this kind of extends the [...]