There you have it three useful, easy-to-tie fly patterns to help you get started. But once you begin tying flies and actually catch a few fish on your own patterns someth ...

In addition to tools, fly-tying kits include the materials needed to tie the most basic fly patterns. Like any hobby kit, the more you spend, the more material you get.

It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left of my tying desk and it will take that long to refill my boxes with enough flies ...

Hardy's Salmon Flies – Patterns from the Fly Tying Department 1883-1969, retails at £75 (€87.88) and can be purchased from Paul Morgan, Coch-y-Bonddu Books, Machynlleth, Mid-Wales SY20 8DG ...