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As a fly angler, there is great satisfaction in being able to tie your own flies. If you haven’t reached that point yet, here is some advice to help you get started.

The most humble tool in your tying tool collection is most likely your dubbing needle or bodkin. Still it’s one of the most useful tools.

Since I moved to a house several years ago, I’ve had a combined office and tying room, which has served me very well!

The SmallRig RM 03 is a flexible and versatile LED lamp useful for both tying and photography

Want to get better results when tying flies? Don’t buy your way there. Tie your way there!

Hackle or material guards help you keep stuff out of the way while you tie or varnish your fly

My adored fly tying desk. Once cherished and down through the ages worn and abused. Now cherished again.

If knotting fibers for legs for your insect imitations drive you mad, this tool can help!

A scud pattern with 26 individual legs is no task if you make this small, ingenious tool out of wire.

Siberian Ramil Yamaliev makes a lot of things on his 3D printer - from fly reels to lamps. And then this brilliant dubbing brush twister.

How to make a 10 dollar tying station based on a cheap IKEA cutting board.

If you want to use the advantages of controlling twist in your tying thread, you need a bobbin holder that allows rotation. Not all do.

My search for a great fly tying lamp may be over. This one is close to ideal for my purposes

Get ready to meet the “Hummingbird”, a very different bobbin holder designed and made by Dutch Tom Biesot

Bretislav has a little machine in his collection of fly-tying tools. It was made by his father about 20 years back.

A material spring is a nifty little addition to your vise, enabling you to hold long materials like ribbing or hackles out of the way while tying in other materials.

There's so much extra paraphernalia that you can attach to your vise that you can totally block the access to the hook if you use it all.

I have used my fingers and metal bulldog clips plus varying degrees of dexterity for hair hackle loops. I decided to try to make my own material clips for the purpose.

If you want a really cool bobbin holder, carbon fiber and all, it's off to Kickstarter to support Ilias Fn Karanzas' Apex Predator Bobbin project!

I'm working on an article on tool holders and have been fooling around with a drawing program and a laser cutter

This is the greatest little tool you can imagine for cleaning varnish off your bodkin or dubbing needle, and you can make one almost for free.

Most people need some light when they tie flies. Some people more than others. This article is about lamps to use over your vise and table when tying.

Looking for a cool, compact and cheap fly tying light? Look no further. This project will give you a nice light for about 10-15 US$

Hackle pliers are simple tools for a simple task: handling hackles. But there might be more to the story of these humble tools.

There's a gazillion tyers who love the Regal style, angled spring clamp fly-tying vises, but I always wondered why they are so popular

The design and making of a homemade fly tying vise.

What should you look for when choosing fly-tying scissors? Well, that all depends on a number of factors. This article takes an in-depth look at one of the fly tier's most important tools

I was among the lucky fly-tyers who managed to lay my hand on one of Lawrence Waldron's LAW fly-tying vises while he made them - and they could be bought at reasonable prices.

Considering how simple the goal is: to get the thread through the tube of a bobbin holder, there's a surprising number of ways to do it.

In most cases the bobbin holder is a very simple tool with two wire legs that grab the thread spool under tension and feeds the tying thread through a tube

Don't tie flies to save money or get access to tonnes of flies. Tie because you want the best flies!

A super simple and inexpensive home made tool to hold hackle and other materials while tying.

If you are embarking on the tube fly tying journey and don't have the tools, don't despair. A simple and inexpensive tapered needle is all you need - or maybe a couple.

I am as likely to sit down and tie six different flies as I am to tie six of the same pattern. Speed is not a concern, but I don't want to waste my time either. There are things I can do to make my life easier which may be different from a professional production tyer.

Sometimes good things don't have to cost a lot of money, and this is one of them

These are some of the least expensive and most useful fly tying tools you can make yourself. A Velcro stick, a brush and a comb made from strips of Velcro, pieces of wood, hair combs and even ice lolly sticks!

This short video shows you how to whip finish with your fingers rather than using a tool. It's quite easy, looks cool and saves you trying to localize that whipfinisher on your messy tying table - that is if you are like the rest of us...

Have tube, will tie... but how to go about it? How do you actually manage to tie on a tube? Well, it's much like tying on a hook, just different. Learn to tie on plastic, metal, bottles, compound and rear tubes.

More information on tube fly tying tools than you ever thought you needed - from the lowly sewing needle to the full-blown several-hundred-dollar vise, and a lot in between. This article gives you essential knowledge about how to hold a tube - any tube - while tying on it.

Want to venture further into the world of tube flies? This list of material suppliers, tools, vises, DVD's, books and much more will give you links to many more hours of entertaining reading and viewing.

If you tie flies incorporating epoxy, you will probably have great benefit from a rotating drying rig like this

Mike Hogue has stuff on the way

This Danish tool might be an alternative. In spite of some minor drawbacks, it's a very good tool at a very reasonable price.

In the most simplistic terms, a flytying kit must only have the tools and materials necessary to tie the flies you may use on a single trip or a single river. However, like most of us, a travelling flytying kit consumes more space than 26 high-schoolers crammed in a Volkswagen Beetle.