It seems a bit nasty to the uneducated non-fishing people to collect and buy antique fly fishing flies but to the people that collect them, and to the people that buy the books written by the people that collect antique fly fishing flies, it all makes perfect sense.

It is like anything that is your passion. If you are a fan of old movies you collect old movie posters and maybe even old movie tickets. If you are a sports fan then you collect old jerseys and other old equipment. If you are a fishing enthusiast then you collect antique fly fishing flies and other older fishing gear and memorabilia. You do it for a lot of reasons and some of those reasons are to preserve the good old days and another reason is to learn.

Everyone will tell you that things were done better in the old days. People were healthier in the old days, they were happier in the old days, and there was so much more to do in the old days. You could learn a lot from the old days. People that collect antique fly fishing flies will tell you that the only real way to learn how to make a good fly is to take a look at how they did it in the old days.

It takes years to master the creation of an effective fly and there is no better place to start than to study antique fly fishing flies and how they were made. Of course it helps if you only study the truly successful flies but it is doubtful that anyone would keep a dud fly around for any reason at all. We can learn a lot from our past and fly fishermen are always learning from antique fly fishing flies.

Just Because It Was Grandpa's

Keepsakes are kept for the sake of keeping them because they remind us of better days gone by and people that are no longer with us. The same could be said for antique fly fishing flies that can remind us of a day before graphite poles, corporate sponsors, and big boats on the water. Many people love to look back of the simplicity of the old days and studying antique fly fishing flies allows them to look back at a time when fishing was much simpler and meant a lot more to them.

Memories and education are two excellent reasons to collect anything but with flies it is more like handing down a craft from generation to generation. You cannot learn how to make a good fly unless you get your hands on a fly that was good in the first place. There is not better way to learn than from someone else's experience and that is what studying and collecting antique fly fishing flies allows people to do.

Without a good fly to help you catch fish a fly fishing trip is pretty much a waste of time. There are several ways of getting successful flies and if you intend on making your own fly fishing flies then be prepared to experiment a lot because the people that make the best fly fishing flies take years to learn what makes a fish bite and the best fly fishing flies are crafted from years of experience. But everything has to start somewhere and if you decide that you want to give making fly fishing flies a try then go right ahead. You are going to need fishing hooks, string, and then any material that you think will make a fish just want to bite at your hook without bait or anything like that at all.

The trick to fly fishing is casting where there is fish and then dragging your fly fishing flies across the water to entice the fish to take a bite of your hook. A fish is only going to go for a fly fishing fly for usually one of two main reasons. The first reason will be that the fly looks like a bug in the water that the fish finds appetizing. The other is that the colors of the fly fishing flies make the fish feel aggressive and cause the fish to bite on to the hook out of almost pure emotion. As you can see there are reasons why this takes years to get really good at.

What You Need To Make A Good Fly

Normally fly fishing flies are made of feathers, hair, string or anything that will look like a bug moving around in the water when you are moving your fly around. The fish has to believe that it is a bug or something else it really wants or else it will never take the bait. So make sure that you experiment with different materials that give the illusion of being a bug under water so that you can give your flies a chance of being successful.

Color is something that is also found in a good fly but knowing which colors affect a fish can take some time to figure out. The point of colors on a fly is to bring out aggression in a fish so when you choose colors you have to choose colors that will make the fish just want to bite on your hook. Sometimes it can be frustrating trying to make your own fly fishing flies so there is no shame in buying some pre-made ones, checking for their success, and using them as a model. That is what learning is all about!