New Vise!

[Troutastic]

Woohoo! Got a steal of a deal on a brand new Dyna King Barracuda Jr. Trekker on eBay the other night. Retails for $230, got it for $140 new. I love eBay.... Ready to take the plunge and get tying, I'm thinking about a few patterns to get started with. RS-2 was first choice, nice and easy, second would be a caddis pattern, and I'm looking for a third...

[TexasChris]

Hare's ear.

[alanb_ct]

If you are just starting out as tier, the RS2 is probably not the best choice. A properly tied RS2 is not that easy. Start by tying wooly worms and buggers.

[Walshmiko]

Nice vise! Im over due for a new one..

[AaronJasper]

A wooly bugger wan I was the first fly that I ever tied. Then I moved on to pheseant tails and hare's ears.

[kyle]

You will absolutly love that vise, guarenteed! Great deal

start tying up some foam beatles and some dubbing ants. Easy and they'll catch you fish. Also try some plain and simple olive caddis nymph patterns with a bead head.

[Troutastic]

Thanks for the advise guys, I'm not a complete newb when to comes to tying, I took a class to tie the basic patterns my last semester at school. I've successfully tied wooly buggers, hair's ears, standard dryfly duns, parachute dries, some streamers, etc.

[AaronJasper]

What school did you go to? I wish they had fly tying where I went to college!

[kyle]

I would be valadictorian high honors honor role student of the century lol

[Flyfisher]

Penn State has Fly Fishing classes that are accredited! Now that is my kind of college class if only they had a class for drinking too much and sleeping.