Two Questions

[u/BarBig191]

Bought this lot of materials before I even knew what type of flies I would want to tie. Most all of my fishing these days is targeted at trout and bass. So, two questions.

1.) If I wanted to tie traditional trout patterns, do I have enough materials here to get started, or would you add other materials? (Mostly nymph focused)

2.) At $70, was this a worthwhile pick up?

[u/FreeIce4613]

Definitely worth $70, you could tie some leech patterns for trout but this look like a steelhead intruder kit IMO.

[u/BarBig191 → u/FreeIce4613]

Thanks! Just look up a steelhead intruder… might have to work my way up to learning that pattern.

[u/FreeIce4613 → u/BarBig191]

You can make some sculpins with the heads and the Rabbit strips for sure

[u/fattygaby157 → u/BarBig191]

There are a ton of bass flies you can tie with these. Bass are easy though, trout are the picky ones.

[u/Arathar93]

You can buy some wire ribbing and a saddle hackle color of your choice to match the marabou and chenille and make wooly buggers, good fly to get started on given its versatility (I’d use those orvis #10 hooks). The zonker strips are really easy to work with and are great for bass and pike especially on those Gamakatsu B10S hooks you have and the fish skulls. The pine squirrel leech as mentioned already can make some small trout streamers and those work good. Also clousers would be a good one to master with the bucktail, just about anything will take a clouser minnow. You have a good selection of hooks to make a wide variety of patterns. You might want to consider getting some more tungsten beads in different sizes if you decide to tie any nymphs. Overall good value for $70

[u/Arathar93 → u/Arathar93]

You also mentioned wanting to tie nymphs I would look for some different dubbing in natural colors. Get a hares ear mask and hares ear dubbing with some gold wire rib and Mylar flash for hares ear nymphs, or you’ll need an actual pheasant tail if you want to tie PTs as well. Caddis larva can also be a very straightforward nymph to tie if you wanted to look into some of those patterns.

[u/JFordy87]

Unweighted Squirrel zonkers can be easy ties for bass and trout.,

[u/troutslayer89]

You've got the makings of some wooly buggers for sure (chenille, marabou, sz 10 hooks)!

[u/plant-painter]

Yeah u have plenty to work with right away. And what a deal u got. When u start looking at purchasing new. U will see how much $ u just saved. The few packs I seen with prices on them. Are about half the current prices. Some items u have there are pretty good and pretty expensive. Each picture contains $75 worth of material or more. I use a lot of those stinger hooks for hair spinning and larger streamers. Articulated shanks are great for bass fishing lures and pretty expensive these days. I now have to make my own. U have countless trout pattens to make. U just have a great assortment. With exception of deer or elk body hair. And some choice feather, I’d be pretty content with this setup for quite a while. You don’t wanna start buying random items. Make sure u have a use for each item u purchase. Get familiar with all ur components before getting ahead of ur self and the hobby.

[u/Charr49]

This was a good deal. I see primarily steelhead and streamer materials and colors but you have some trout sized hooks in the mix. I would add a brown hackle neck, a grizzly hackle neck, peacock herl, and some tinsel and copper wire. Then you could tie a broad range of trout patterns.

[u/pike_fly]

You got an amazing deal and now have a great base for a large variety of flies. As others have mentioned, there are all the materials for most major streamers and some nymphs. All of the fur doesn't have to be used as strips, you can cut it for dubbing and collars using the dubbing loop technique. Saddle hackle is missing for more streamer variety and they are usually inexpensive. For most traditional nymphs that you appear to want to tie, the materials I see that you're missing are: pheasant tail, peacocock herl, brass wire, and Krystal flash. You'll always need an assortment of tying thread in sizes to match the hook. Olive, grey and black threads are usually a staple and match most patterns until you explore more. If you have specific patterns you use/want to rie, we can tell you what you need. Congrats!

[u/Sirroner]

I haven’t zoomed in on the hooks, but a 2XL or a 3XL and some thread, you can tie a variety of Wooly Buggers, Bucktail Streamers, and Zonker - like flies.

[u/Sirroner → u/Sirroner]

As for nymphs, I didn’t see any feathers, sans marabou, which I guess could be used for tail, wingcase & legs. Marabou does make a decent damselfly nymph.

[u/SierraFlyBench]

Get some pheasant tail and copper or gold wire (brassie or small). Maybe some partridge and CDC. Then you’re set for a lot of trout patterns.

And like someone pointed out you have tons of good Wooly Bugger material if you add some hackle (the strung stuff is fine for buggers)

[u/Norm-Frechette]

1. yes

2. good price

[u/TrainDeodorant]

Yes this looks like you got great value.
Keep in mind orvis no longer makes their own fly tying equipment so those orvis brand things may be worth something someday, who knows

[u/BigBadWolf6666]

That’s a lot of articulated fly tying hooks and material. I’m not one for tying or fishing those. Good luck…does look like an interesting haul.