My vice is my vise. I spend a lot of time (especially during the football season and the winter months) behind my fly tying vise. When I first started tying, I bought the cheapest vise setup that came ...

JAWS – The Core of any fly tying vise. The jaws are made of a fine, hardened steel with anti-corrosive properties. The jaw is adjustable to accommodate a wide range of hooks size 28 - 2/0; ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as ...

It's a deep breath shy of 7:35 p.m. on a Thursday at Schroeder's Bar & Grill in St. Paul, and Andy Fiskness has already settled in behind his fly-tying vise in the establishment's dimly lit ...

I was in the market for a new fly-tying vise and something about the weathered wooden exterior of the cozy fly shop suggested they had just what I was looking for. Inside, Rod Gable sat in a chair ...

“I was frustrated with the fly-tying vises available at the time,” said Andy Renzetti. The vises’ superiority soon gained the notice of giant sports retailer Orvis, and Renzetti, the company ...

Fly fishing isn't only about fly fishing. It's a much broader net that encompasses literature, painting, lifestyle, and the always popular fly tying.

Still, he guesses he ties at least 2,000 flies a year—and when you consider that the average deer-hair fly takes him 30 minutes to tie, his time behind the vise quickly adds up. Not that he’s ...

A.K. Best inspects a dragonfly fishing fly as he sits for a portrait last month at the workbench where he spent 40-plus years tying flies 2024, in Boulder. Best is a legend in the fly fishing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A rejuvenated Northern Ohio Fly Fishing Expo is showcasing fly tying at a new location on Saturday. An expanded lineup of experts will be hunkered over their fly tying vises ...