Fly Tying and Kids: "Is This Alright?"

April 7, 2009 By: Marshall Cutchin

Anyone who’s experienced the joy of teaching a child to tie flies will appreciate Pat Rollins’s description of an afternoon spent fly tying with his son. “‘Which one of these is the right color gray feather?’ he asked as he held up four bags of dyed gray feathers. ‘They’ll all work,’ I replied. ‘But if you want to make a gray ghost exactly like the one in your hand, hold it up to the bag and match the color.'” In the Laconia, New Hampshire Citizen.