Winter tying...........

[carpman]

How many of you tie flies all winter to fish with the following summer???

I'm curious if most people plan that far ahead or if you're like me, and just tie what you need the night before the trip??

Do you tie more flies during winter or summer???

[Trout4x]

Tie flies when ever time will allow me to do so.

[jdubya]

back to the tv: pre-season does not count: fill the empty bins: tie a few new patterns: then use spring, summer tying time to re-do what i use the most: end up with a hell of a lot of flies

[Indylab]

I am horrible, I pretty much only tie a few days before heading out.

[Trouty]

Mostly during games (like jdubya) or movies I've seen before. I do more tying in the winter because I'm releaved of most of my yard chores plus fishing in the winter is much more in line with bankers hours - more time in the morning and nights to do stuff since I can't go fishing then anyway.

Still tie in the summer though, particularly when I run through a pattern that has been particularly hot.

[Ouzel]

I tie all year long on and off but I do gear up for winter tying to replenish my inventory boxes of standard flies; Adams, BWO, PMD,etc.
There are flurries of activity during the year if I'm planning a trip to other waters or if I run across a pattern I just gotta try. :-)
Often I tie just to try a new, to me, material or method.
I enjoy tying and trying. :-)

[mcgx2]

I tie off and on all year long... especially when there is something new I want to try or something that I am trying to match. In the winter I fill my fly boxes with flies that worked in the past year, then I tie new flies that I want to try next year. After that I tie for whatever reason I can find....my sons, shadow boxes, fly swaps etc.

mcg

[carpman]

I love to tie as well!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately I tie about 100 flies for someone else for every 1 that goes in my box. I especially love tying with new materials and creating new patterns. For me, tying is half the fun of fly fishing. It's almost as fun as fishing..............

[Utah DaveII]

Carpman,

I definately prefer fishing over tying. To be real honest, I don't enjoy tying all that much. I do try to tie what I need for the next summer. In fact I was tying flav cripples last night. I am in pretty good shape for next spring, but I need to build the caddis patterns up for next summer.

I tie mostly out of necessity, I promised my wife when I started tying that I would quite buying flies. Since, my wife fishes with me,It was getting expensive to keep buying flies. So I talked my wife into letting me buy a new vice and to start tying. Well I tied a few of our flies for a year or two, but still bought a bunch of others. I then told her that we would only fish what I tied. I had to justify much of the flytying material cost I was incurring (Most of it at your shop I might add).

[Jason]

During the winter I try and tie some of my go to patterns for the spring and summer but I'm like Carpman and pretty much do all my tying the night before I head out. I probably have enough flies right now in my boxes to get me through another full year but I'm constantly experimenting with new patterns or trying to improve an existing pattern. Every year I come across a few new killer patterns that I end up stocking in my boxes. To me tying flies makes the whole fly fishing experience more gratifying because I'm catching fish with my flies that I personally tied. I also think tying your own flies makes you a better fisherman as well. You end up learning why flies are tied the way they are and why certain materials are used instead of others. And sometimes the shop flies just don't work as well as home tied flies. Fly tying is just a blast.