What kinda vice do you guys use for tying jigs, dressing trebles, ext.? Was looking at the White River Fly shop Classic Vise at BPS, any good?

Thanks

My vices are chewing tobacco, strong drink, and fast women.

I have not seen that vice, but if are going to go with a fly vice make sure it can hold large hooks.  Most of those vices are designed to hold your average trout size hooks (size 16-10 dry fly/nymph), doing a marginal job of holding well in the smallest and largest sizes.  Your typical jig hook falls into the largest category.  Most good tying vices have a larger jaw option available for the vice so that you can get the best hold possible on the larger hooks.  If you are not going to be putting a lot of pressure on the hook then this won't be a problem and that vice should do just fine.  

I have the peak rotary vice that I do all my tying on from small trout midges, to bass flies with full jig skirts, to big pike streamers all on the main jaw that comes with the hook.  They have different jaw sizes but the vice is great and I don't find I need them.  

My vices are chewing tobacco, strong drink, and fast women.

Sadly, my first thought was similar.  ...lol

Any fly tying vice with large hook capacity will work just fine.

Main Entry:

vise

Pronunciation:

\[ch712]v[ch299]s\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English vys, vice screw, from Anglo-French vyz, from Latin vitis vine more at withy

Date:

1500

1 : any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam 2 : something likened to a vise <economic vise of slow growth and rampant price increases

Main Entry:

vice

Pronunciation:

\[ch712]v[ch299]s\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin vitium fault, vice

Date:

14th century

1 a: moral depravity or corruption : wickedness b: a moral fault or failing c: a habitual and usually trivial defect or shortcoming : foible <suffered from the vice of curiosity>

Since there was 12 mispellings of the word, and to make the joke funny, i had to consult the book or armaments

You can check places like harbor freight, i know i have seen something the same as a fly vise, but im sure much cheaper.

I bought my vice several years ago off of ebay.  Think it was made in India.  Bought a cheap one - think the whole set was $50.  Wanted to see if I could tie my own flies and if I liked it was going to move up to a better one.

Many, many flies and years later I am still using it.  Just can't see spending several hundred dollars on a new vice when this one works great for me.  I tie flies, trebles and buck tails on it.  Just get good solid quality that has several jaw sizes with it.  

One thing I will say tough, what I like about the one I have is that it has the lever to clamp the jaws shut.  I have noticed some vices only have the barrel tightener.  Just not sure if this would hold larger hooks, especially the heavy bucktail jigs.

Eddie

What kinda vice do you guys use for tying jigs, dressing trebles, ext.? Was looking at the White River Fly shop Classic Vise at BPS, any good?

Thanks

If you want it to be versatile, then be sure it has a handle that will allow you to rotate the hook as well as being able to hold large hooks.

I have an Orvis and have tied thousands of jigs with it although I don't use it for bass jigs with anything larger than a 1/0 hook.  For the bigger hooks I use a small bench vise.