Why Would Anyone Want Antique Fly Fishing Flies?

It seems a bit nasty to the uneducated non-fishing people to collect and buy antique fly fishing flies but to the people that collect them, and to the people that buy the books written by the people that collect antique fly fishing flies, it all makes perfect sense.

It is like anything that is your passion. If you are a fan of old movies you collect old movie posters and maybe even old movie tickets. If you are a sports fan then you collect old jerseys and other old equipment. If you are a fishing enthusiast then you collect antique fly fishing flies and other older fishing gear and memorabilia. You do it for a lot of reasons and some of those reasons are to preserve the good old days and another reason is to learn.

Everyone will tell you that things were done better in the old days. People were healthier in the old days, they were happier in the old days, and there was so much more to do in the old days. You could learn a lot from the old days. People that collect antique fly fishing flies will tell you that the only real way to learn how to make a good fly is to take a look at how they did it in the old days.

It takes years to master the creation of an effective fly and there is no better place to start than to study antique fly fishing flies and how they were made. Of course it helps if you only study the truly successful flies but it is doubtful that anyone would keep a dud fly around for any reason at all. We can learn a lot from our past and fly fishermen are always learning from antique fly fishing flies.

Just Because It Was Grandpa's

Keepsakes are kept for the sake of keeping them because they remind us of better days gone by and people that are no longer with us. The same could be said for antique fly fishing flies that can remind us of a day before graphite poles, corporate sponsors, and big boats on the water. Many people love to look back of the simplicity of the old days and studying antique fly fishing flies allows them to look back at a time when fishing was much simpler and meant a lot more to them.

Memories and education are two excellent reasons to collect anything but with flies it is more like handing down a craft from generation to generation. You cannot learn how to make a good fly unless you get your hands on a fly that was good in the first place. There is not better way to learn than from someone else's experience and that is what studying and collecting antique fly fishing flies allows people to do.