George

Cabelas and other outlets offer many fly tying "kits" and the choices are pretty confusing to newbies. It might be helpful to provide a list of bare essentials to get started and an approximate price your experience dictates one should expect to spend. It's so easy to go overboard and pay for stuff a beginner doesn't need.

Can you provide some links to examples of:

Vice - do you prefer clamp on or stand up model?
Light
Is magnifier important?
Hook brand recommendation
Good ideas for basic starting materials [thread, hackle, etc.]
Other tools necessary [bobbin, thread [size/color?], scissors, etc.]

If there is a solid kit of good quality you could recommend, that would be helpful. Thanks in advance, George!

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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