You should think about buying a little starter kit for $50. I keep meaning to get serious, but only find time to dabble...still, would be a great skill to master. The SJW is probably the easiest pattern to tie - few wraps on foam and dub and a drop of head cement and boom you're done. Just a thought for you.

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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