Background for Fly Tying & Fly Photography

BOOK

MINI SPRING CLAMP

A SHEET OF YOUR FAVORITE COLORED PAPER

Makes an excellent portable profile plate and an excellent background for photographing your flies.

Just clamp the sheet of colored paper to the book cover.

Note: paper clips will also work to hold the paper to the book cove. Use what you have on hand.

Even simpler is this paper holder typists use.

Bobbers and Indicators and Cheaters Oh My

There is a vast variety of fly fishing strike indicators. Here is a few of them.

STICK ON

SCREW ON

THINGAMABOBBERS

TWIST ON

POLY YARN

LEADER BUTT SECTION

FOAM FLY

COILED INDICATOR

INLINE DROP INDICATOR

PUTTY

BOLES FLOAT RIGHT INDICATOR

INDICATOR YARN

RASTAMAN STRIKE INDICATOR

FLY LINE INDICATOR

DRY FLY

HOT HEAD INDICATOR

FLOATMASTER INDICATORS

BALLOON

Well thats just a sampling of strike indicators available to fishermen. Its your choice to use the or not.

Understanding Feathers

Here is an article to help new tyers understand tying feathers. It's a little dated but will give you the general idea regarding some of the feathers used in fly tying. Just click on the link below.

Understanding Feathers