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.