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By John Fyfe
The most important item in fly fishing is the fly at the end of your leader. The artificial fly should imitate as closely as possible, the natural insect life of that particular stream/water, the angler may be fishing at the particular time he is fishing that stream. So it follows that the fly fisher should observe carefully what natural flies are to be found about and over the water that he is about to fish. The imitation of a natural insect is important on over fished waters.

Getting Started. Fly tying is merely wrapping a thread around a hook, then binding various tying materials to the hook; hair, feathers, yarns or tinsels to simulate a fish food. Tying flies is a relaxing pastime and a ideal in and off-season indoor complement to fly fishing. More and more people are tying in addition to fishing with a bead or cone or eyeballs at the head of their fly.

Tying. Flies with either beads or cones requires that the tier flattens down the barb on the hook or uses a barbless hook to start with. We attach eyeballs on top of the hook with thread, but beads and cones are inserted onto the hook. They must be able to go over the barb as well as around the bend of the hook. If the hook is an up-eye or bend-back style hook, the bead or cone must also slide over that extra wire in order to end up right at the hook-eye.

Flies. Many anglers also organize specific boxes by the specific rivers or locations they fish the most. Each of these methods has its pros and cons. That seems