Your Tying Set Up

[Wildfisher]

What I like about the permanent set up is I can nip in on impulse and tie just one fly if I feel like it.  If I had to set everything up every time it would not be worth the effort. You do need the space though and not having a moaning wife also helps massively.  :lol:

[haresear]

I've seen tackle shops with less fly tying gear. That is disgustingly tidy

Alex

[haresear]

i'm of the opinion that making flies gradually destroys your ability to catch fish, initially its just a useful distraction but it quickly develops into a dependency on the new, before long your depending on the fly, blaming the fly, needing a different fly...another fly different from all the ones before..the one that will change your luck, it becomes a form of gambling that makes you believe its the fly that everything depends on.

break free fly makers, you got enough of them now :lol:

There's many a true word spoken in jest :
Alex

[Wildfisher]

i'm of the opinion that making flies gradually destroys your ability to catch fish

There is more than a grain of truth in that. Too many flies = too many variables. No one really needs more than a handful of patterns.

On the the other hand do you seriously believe Bob Wyatt would have been as influential had he just bought his flies? 

[alancrob]

Alan
That is some set-up!

The character "Jimmy Eagan" is not partly based on you, is it?    :biglaugh;

A.

[Inchlaggan]

Alan,
That looks like a shop that does tying lessons rather than a private set-up.
Note the three low-mid price vices, plus the chairs set around a curved table.

[alancrob]

The table looks like it could be adapted very easily for Blackjack!

[shad]

My stuff is squeezed into a cupboard that holds my CH boiler, major pain when the boiler needs a service.

[Wildfisher]

I hadn't realized  Loomis make boilers.  :lol:

[shad]

I hadn't realized  Loomis make boilers.  :lol:

bet they'd be bloody expensive if they did!