Originally Posted by
eddie_m
OK. I'm probably being ridiculously impatient, but I've had GREAT success tying gilly minnows with the assistance of the Colonel's DCFF instructions and Mark at Forward Cast's advice on hooks, etc. So, I have tried tying a number of wooly buggers, which the internet folks claim is a beginner fly. Mine all end up looking like a furball with a feather sticking off one side (broken away from the thread, of course). I'll admit that I've tried to do this on the cheap and plan to buy a vise, whip thing-a-ma-jig, and bobbin tomorrow. Maybe that will be the missing fly tying magic. It hasn't gone well so far, though.