My son and I are REALLY getting into fly fishing fresh water up here. I've been using woolyboogers and bugs and doing well. Do any of you have recommendations for other flies to try or tie? Also what is a good website to buy tying materials like popper heads?
If you are primarily fishing ponds a clouser minnow would be a good next step and is fairly easy to tie. Same with the gartside soft hackle streamer. Squirmy worms are also a fairly easy tie and the bream will tear them up. 9 times out of 10 if Im fishing freshwater I'm in a creek and prefer a chartreuse popping bug sz 4-8. When you start to get comfortable and want to try something harder http://www.flyfishfood.com/p/streamer-tutorials.html http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/patterns.asp
are both good resources.