Joe Hard

Nice fly

Sweet, nice fly

Great fly and by your tying instructions almost indestructable. That is an interesting looking fish looks like a cross between a rainbow trout and a pike. I bet they very prety in real life.

An old post but a great beetle pattern.

That is nice!!!!

The snake was prety cool,

Looks like a killer hopper pattern to me, I like the markings you put on it.

Nice fly, I like the bulk of the bucktail

Cool flies, they looks like they would be great for stripers as well.

Cool fly, bees and wasps are something I think are overlooked by a lot of bass fisherman. On a camping trip, one evening, shore fishing a lake. I was catching several smalmouths on red and blue damsel patterns. Some of the fish would come out of the water and try to take the fly before it hit the water. The next morning I could see several large fish slurping and rolling in a slow deep run that came into the lake from a river. I got in my rubber dingy and went out and could not get a strike on the damsel dries. I moved in a bit closer and could see they were feeding on wasps and honey bees. I had no bee patterns or even any small yellow/black poppers, and could not get a strike on anything I threw there.

Great looking G.H, love it

Great looking fly, I bet you will love throwing that!!

I was expecting the same thing, great fly, copper is a great colour here. I was watching a stickelback slwoly drifting down stream the other evening, when the light hit it the right way the bottom of the minnow was shinning copper.

Nice fly!!

Nice flies, I caught a smolt here about 2 weeks ago trout fishing, could be sign the salmon are on there way

Those flies look great, realy like the orange and white bomber

Ray I dont know what the hooks are on the right, I salvaged them from some other flies I scraped from a bunch of stuff I was given. They are a heavy wire hook that I wanted to use so the flies would get deeper quicker. The ones on the left are an eagle claw 570 #2 jig aberdeen hook. A type of hook that most lead head shad darts are tied on. Here is a link to Cabelas shad darts http://www.cabelas.com/prod-1/0000591113221a.shtml If you read the product description you will see that the lead head gives the fly an erratic motion. I thought using the jig hook with up turned eye and dumbbell eyes might do the same. I never tried them to see if it would work. I know of other flies that use these types of hooks for the same reason. Mustad 32756 and 32760 are pretty simmilar in size, and I think a finer wire hook would be better for shad fishing. The guy I tied the flies for told me he never caught a fish on a fly rod and that he had a 5 weight so I tied the flies that size. For myself I would of also tied larger heaver flies As I was tying them I was thinking the same thing, pan fish, ice fishing and so on. I always thought an ice fishing fly with the eye in the center of the shank somehow, might provoke more strikes. Instead of the fly being jigged head first up and down it would be jigged in its natural profile. Especially minnow patterns.

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Nice fly, that should turn some fishes heads

It looks as though it were one feather and I'd say peacock wing

Thanks guys the floss is uni floss with several coats of sally hansen's put on after the rib was tied in. I tied this fly for a strike indicator, and wanted to make it stronger. There are 5 hackles tied in, 3 badger and 2 light dun variant, to give it a bigger thorax profile and a rusty dun look. If you want you can use either badger or furnace hackles in place of what the pattern calls for or just mixed in. Badger is great for tricos or to give the fly a beefer profile. The fly is tied on a mustad sig C53S size 12, but to me has the look of a size 10 or 8 fly.

If you soak the feathers in some luke warm water with a small bit of mild soap not detergent, for a few minutes . Then rinse off and preen the feathers from the stem out, base to tip, under running water. Then lay the feathers on a flat surface curved side down to dry, it will clean them, tame the barbs and make the feathers easier to tie with. I could be wrong but they look like wild turkey to me, and like day 5 says be carefull what you get. I have been given a few tying lots and had to throw out several things.

Thanks Jan I tied this a while back and now that I look at it it looks like a mustad nymph hook. It does float like a cork though.

Gotta love it when that happens hey?