If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying ...
However, in a competitive environment of affluent Victorian gentlemen, fly-tying soon became an art form. To impress their fellow fishermen, they crafted ties from exotic bird feathers and polar ...
Most if not all these animals’ fur and feathers can provide excellent fly-tying material, which imaginative anglers can put to good use on the tying vice rather than discarding in the trash.