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Originally Posted by FlyTheory
To be honest, I’ve been tying for almost 20 years, fiddling with new materials, nice patterns, etc. But one thing is for certain, if you want a 3 minute tied fly, don’t expect quality. If you want a nice fly, 10 mins should be allocated for everything. If you start tying, ten years and 10k flies later you will know what we’re talking about. It’s like me telling a welder that my steel truck bumper should take 4 hours to complete... yeah he’ll complete it... but I won’t like the end result.
Fly tying is art. And art deserves respect. Tying a sht fly to save extra $2 is off putting to me.
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Meh, I tie sht flies 50% of the time for the last 45 years and they all work. However, a good tie on a sht hook is worse than a bad tie on a good hook anytime!