Technical Tyer

Welcome to Technical Tyer!

At Technical Tyer, we are focused on applying the Scientific Method to the art and craft of fly tying and fly fishing.
See our work featured in regular columns in Fly Tyer magazine.

If you have an interesting fly tying/fishing question that you would like to see us cover, please drop us a line on our contact form.

We also do contract research projects for the fly fishing and fly tying industries. If you are developing tools, materials, or tackle for fly fishing/tying industries, and you have questions that you think could benefit from some exploratory research, contact us today to find out how we might be able to help (click here for our contact form).

In Technical Tyer, we’ll look at questions fly tyers ask themselves and ponder while drinking beers at the bench.  Most importantly, we’ll try to answer those questions by applying the scientific method.  This means that we’ll try to frame these questions in such a way that we will be able to test them, thus yielding observations.  And from these observations, we’ll try to formulate answers to our original questions.  In most cases, this effort will end up prompting more questions.  And that is the nature of science.  The questions we ask lead us to answers.  Those answers lead us to more questions.  Just when we think we know something, we realize how much we don’t yet know.

Technical Tyer combines my passions for science and fly tying/fishing.