Have you tied flies before?
If you’ve done trout flies you should find salmon flies easy.
Watch some youtube videos for a starter.
Think GAC, Sportfish, John Norris etc do starter packs too.

 

Not breaking the bank and fly tying are an oxymoron, you will spend more on materials than the cost of buying the flies retail.

For starters a vice capable of taking tubes and hooks, mid range £200.00 can get cheaper, but will be a compromise.

Threads, check what colours you want to tie and buy those specifically, don't buy a set, after thirty years I still have some left from a set I would never use, in the first instance buy a strong thread (Kevlar or the like) you will break the thread on the hook until you get used to winding without catching the thread on the hook and it breaking.

Body materials, the world is your oyster on this.

Commiserations you are on a slippery slope that does not have an end. 🤣

 

A good lighht and sharp scissors..i started this year...doesnt have to be expensive to start with until you find your feet...orange, yellow and black colours are a decent starting point...in bucktail, arctic fox, squirrel...cock/hen capes or saddles..same colours...as its been said the world is your oyster...

 

i was thinking of the classics eg cascade, shrimp, silver stoat and maybe a few modern frodin flies lookalikes

thanks

Do not buy a kit they are a waste of money.
Pick a couple of flies to tie, forget Frodin stuff at the moment, and I will gladly send you the step by step tying guide for each of the flies. This also includes a list of materials for each fly.
I do these instructions for the fly tying classes I run each winter.

These three flies alone in various sizes catch a good percentage of the fish each year.
To start I would suggest a
Stoats Tail Normal and Silver
Black and Yellow
Cascade

I can also send you a list of tools you will need that are perfectly usable quality and will not break the bank.

 

Where are you based, I'm sure someone on here ( I'll be happy if you're local) would be happy to meet up and run you through the basics.

Definitely don't buy a starter kit, better buying the materials you know you will need and use for each pattern and build from there. A rotary vice and a tube adaptor needn't break the bank either, some threads, tinsels and basic toolset, scissors, whip finisher, bobbin holders and a hair stacker and the world's your oyster.

Don't skimp on hooks, they're the only thing connecting you to a fish of a lifetime 😉

 

When starting off just buy white thread & a set of permanent markers & colour the thread as you go.
As above, more than anything, don’t be tempted to buy cheap hooks. If you keep an eye on EBay/Fb market then often stuff comes up where eyesight/age has got the better. Often they will have a plethora of stuff you don’t use but should have enough to get you started.
In reality it’s far cheaper to buy flies (unless you are my Sons who blag all mine), but the pleasure of catching on your own tie gives another dimension.

 

Have a look at a few Davie McPhail videos for the idea of what will inspire you: https://www.youtube.com/c/DavieMcPhail He ties in a few minutes fly's that take me an hour or more.

 

And a wee bit too when your friend (or sons) catch on a fly you tied!

 

It's all too easy to overcomplicate it all and try to run before you can walk. Simple hair wing tube flies will teach you all the basics and catch you a lot of fish for not much money. Some Bucktail in Black, Yellow and Orange, 8/0 tying thread, Silver and Gold tinsel's and Black floss. A set of tools and a rotary vice ( there's a lot of perfectly good useable rotary vices for not a lot of money!). That'll let you fill your box with perfectly useable flys that have stood the test of time!. Try simple Silver Stoats Tails to learn the basics, then just by varying colours and proportions you can do the Gold Bodied Willie Gunn, Garry Dog, St. Clements, Black and Orange or Black and Yellow, all proven time tested killers.
Absorb anything by Davie McPhail of which there's loads on the web. He is one cool tier and a diamond geezer.
There's nowt like catching fish on your own tied flee's.
Two words to get a grip of before you start are Proportion and Volume. Its all too easy to tie flee's that are just too big with too much material, or a 1/2" tube thats bigger than a 1" tube.
Best of luck and enjoy the ride!.
Pedro.

 

Do you already tie flies for trout, grayling or other species?

 

Cheap UV resin and super glue are your friends!! I still can’t do a whip finish and I doubt my 30 years of tree cutting sausage fingers will ever be able to either but they insure you get more than 10 minutes out of a fly you have tied yourself !

 

Don't think ive whip finished a fly in 20 year , superglue as you say is your friend