My, the days have changed since I made the holy pilgrimage as a young adult to Dan Bailey's and personally witnessed the fly tying room full of women turning our some of the world's highest quality flies.  That has all changed over my 40+ years of fly fishing the world.  The room sits empty now of fly tying people.  Much of the flies we fish are outsourced in a global market, and the Internet is becoming more and more a source for us as consumers.

I sample a lot of flies trying to find the best I can recommend for my readers, friends, and people I meet in my fly fishing travels over the world.  I found FlyDeal online and went to www.flydealflies.com  to place an order.  When I received the flies, I was amazed at the quality!  At any price!  Much less for about 50 cents per fly! Yes, they are globally outsourced, but don't doubt their quality.

I tie many of my flies, but since finding FlyDeal.com, I tie a lot less.  Their inventory is as good as any fly shop, especially online.  Their quality is better than most, by far. 

"We tie the flies as the orders come into the office from our online shopping cart. It takes 15 to 30 days for us to process an order. We do not maintain a substantial inventory which contributes to high overhead and operating expenses. Our catalog is exclusively found online...

With over 550 unique patterns in any possible size that you could successfully fish the patterns. Remember, we will consider custom tying any patterns that have been hot sellers in your area. You simply place your order online through our secure shopping cart and we will either send you your initial stock or replenish and existing inventory. You will receive these flies within 15 to 30 days. Since we tie the orders as they arrive from our Website, you will not receive old flies that are experiencing material, epoxy and thread degradation. We sell flies by the dozen and each box will be marked with the pattern name, hook size and amount of flies within the box. Our shipment to you will be well protected and you will not receive any flies that have been compromised during shipment."  Call 1-877-FLIES-01

I find their flies to be tied on a very high quality of hooks and with top commercial grade materials.  Nothing  "cheap" is used to compromise the quality of their flies.  I take great pride in recommending this supply to the fly fisherman.

Happy fly fishing.

This is an "Editor's Choice" item from me - John C. Jones