Fly Tying A Brief History of This Ancient Art Form

by Chris Devers
Fly Tying A Brief History of This Ancient Art Form


Tying creating fly fishing flies is an old art form. Fishing flies have been "tied" with fur, feathers and synthetic materials to imitate natural flies or fly tying to create "dressed" fishing flies like traditional dressed salmon flies over the last centuries. Indeed many people credit Isaac Walton and his 1676 edition of The Compleat Angler as the start of fly fishing and fly tying. In reality early fly

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