Jerry Coviello

Beginners Fly Tying Manual Jerry Coviello

There is nothing like catching a fish with a fly that you have tied. You have created something that has fooled a fish. The satisfaction of the time spent behind the vise, binding feathers, and fur with thread on a hook to look like something that the fish wants. We all started walking into a fly shop not knowing what to buy and thinking wow I might be able to tie that and save money doing it myself. Yes that could be a driving factor but personally once I am behind the vise all other thoughts leave me, it is just me and the vise, nothing else. I can now create and become an artist at the vise. Sometimes I feel fly tying is more important than going out fishing. Author and Master Fly Tier, Eric Leiser once told me that "They say the time spent fishing is not deducted from a man's allotted time on earth" So the same must be said for the time at the vise. So I say to all you fly tiers. "To those golden moments we spend at the vise or on the stream. Here is to a long lifetime of Golden Moments"