What Fly Tying Materials and Hooks Can You Buy from Fulling Mill?

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Fulling Mill sells fly tying materials across nine main categories: beads and eyes, chenille/yarn/wool, dubbing, feathers, foam, hair and fur, hooks, thread and wire, and synthetics. You can also buy saddle hackle in 20 colours and Pro Wire in 12 colours across small, medium and large sizes. The practical way to shop is to start from the fly pattern you want to tie, then match hook type and size first, and material colour and texture second.

The Full Material Range on fullingmill.com

The site's Fly Tying Materials menu lists these categories:

Category What it covers
Beads & Eyes Weighted heads and eyes for nymphs, streamers and jig patterns
Chenille, Yarn & Wool Body materials for streamers, worms and bulky patterns
Dubbing (including Dubbing Selections) Fur and synthetic blends for nymph and dry fly bodies
Feathers Hackle and other feathers for tails, collars and wings
Foam Floating bodies, terrestrials and indicator-style patterns
Hair & Fur Natural materials for wings, tails and streamers
Hooks The core hardware for every pattern
Thread & Wire Binding thread and ribbing/wire
Synthetics Modern flash, body and wing materials

Two named product lines are worth flagging because the site gives specific detail:

  • Saddle Hackle — available in 20 unique colours, useful when you want one hackle source across a range of dry flies, soft hackles and streamers.
  • Pro Wire — 12 colours in small, medium and large, which covers ribbing on small nymphs up to larger streamers.

The site also lists tying-adjacent accessories: a fly tying mat, drop back bungs and tools. These are not materials, but they belong on the same shopping trip if you are setting up a bench.

How to Choose Materials for the Fly You Want to Tie

Work in this order, because it prevents the common mistake of buying materials that don't fit any hook you own:

  1. Pick the pattern and its fishing situation. A weighted nymph, a dry fly and a saltwater streamer each demand different hooks and different body materials.
  2. Choose the hook first. Hook style and size constrain everything else — a heavy jig hook will not suit a delicate dry fly.
  3. Match the body material to the hook. Dubbing for slim nymph bodies, chenille or yarn for bulky streamers, foam for floating patterns.
  4. Add movement and flash. Feathers, hair and fur for tails and wings; synthetics for flash.
  5. Finish with wire or thread. Pro Wire for ribbing, thread for binding.

For example, if you want to tie small stream dry flies, the site's "Small Stream Dry Flies" collection is a reasonable starting reference for patterns, and you would pair those with dry fly hackle (Saddle Hackle), fine dubbing and a light wire hook. If you are tying jig streamers, start from the Rabbit Jig Streamer pattern in the What's Hot section and build around a jig hook, beads and eyes, and rabbit-style fur.

Hooks and Wire: The Two Decisions That Matter Most

Hooks and wire are where beginners overspend or under-buy. Two rules of thumb:

  • Buy hooks by pattern, not by variety. A small set of hook styles in the sizes your chosen patterns call for will cover more fishing than a wide assortment of odd sizes.
  • Buy wire by colour range, not by single spools. Pro Wire's 12 colours in three sizes lets you rib everything from midge nymphs to streamers without hunting for a matching spool later.

The site does not publish hook sizing charts or wire diameters in the material provided, so check the individual product pages for the specific sizes before ordering.

What Else Sits Alongside the Materials

If you are building out a tying setup, the site also sells fly boxes (including the UK-made Pro GSP range in 30D, 50D, 100D and 150D), leaders and tippet in nylon, fluorocarbon and tapered versions, and gift cards. These are storage and terminal tackle rather than tying stock, but they are commonly bought in the same order.

Fulling Mill describes itself as a manufacturer of premium fishing flies, tying materials, hooks, beads and fly boxes, with a heritage dating to the 1930s, and it adds patterns each year through its Signature Tyer Program with tyers including George Daniel, Luboš Roza, Devin Olsen and Howard Croston. That matters for material selection mainly as a signal that the patterns the materials are designed around are proven, field-tested designs rather than catalogue filler.

Practical Notes Before You Order

  • The site runs separate US and UK/Rest of World stores (fullingmill.com and fullingmill.co.uk). Confirm which store you are on, since stock and shipping differ.
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  • Clearance and New Products sections change frequently, so check them before a large order — discontinued colours are often the cheapest way to expand a material range.
  • The material pages in the provided source do not list prices, so treat any budget planning as something to confirm at checkout rather than assume.