YoungGrasshopper

Sweet Ray!

A great fly for the catt man! Let it swing brother.......let it swing!

Fish Caught on the D-rib Dun

Thanks guys, if I managed to catch a fish on it i'll post the pic.

This is a new fly that was conceived from the foxy egg sucking leech that i had posted a few months ago. Could be another asset in the line up.

Tube: 1 inch copper

Tail: Black artic fox spun in dubbing loop

Rib: Medium red wire

Dubbing: Purple haze SLF

Tenticles: Grizzly Saddle

Flash: Poloar Flashabou

Collar: Black artic fox spun in dubbing loop.

Hook: Daiichi 1180

Tail: Coq De Leon

Body: Small Peach D-Rib Over Rusty Brown Thread

Hackle: Dark Dun Saddle

Wing: Carribou

Tube: 1" Copper Tube

Tag: Chartruse Uni-Stretch

Dubbing: Purple SLF

hackle: White Peacock

Collar: Natural Gadwell

Eyes: Jungle Cock

Head: Red Thread

Something that I have been playing around with latley. Whatcha Think? It's awaiting it's maiden voyage onto the big lake erie trib this year.

Hey guys I am looking for a pattern called the Speed Skater Caddis. It's not for the october caddis it's just an all around caddis emerger I believe. If any of you have any info or a list for the pattern that would be killer.

Thanks,

Steve

I like your flies alot. Are they buily for a low water situation, or are these your own creations?

I love the head on this fly, it's flawless, great job.

Great for late season rollers on some of our bigger tribs

I take that ou like to use the mallard? Nice tie man. It's got great flow, and color. the gold really contrasts the mallard very nicely

Frank G.,

I use what they call a royal blue. I had some paper from an old paper mill that my uncle used to work for and it was a waxed base paper, so when you baked it in the oven, it would turn it that royal blue and I started to use it for my backrounds.

yes the wing is black bunny strip.

A variation that I came up with for our great lakes fishery. Very effective when the water is on the verge of becoming clear.

The best way is to make a dubbing loop and you can use cross cut or regular rabbit strips to do this, whatever your preference. When you have made your dubbing loop slide the rabbit strip into the loop and slide it about an 1/8 of an inch from the loop and cute the hair. After you cut the hair you can spread it out in the loop so it doesn't bunch up when you spin it. After you spread the hair out spin the loop and after spining lightly come the hair that may have gotten caught while spinning. That's the best that I can say, maybe someone else can elaborate.

This fly has been a big success in early and late spring on the catt, when it runs high a dirty. I have found this color combonation to be amazing when the old stand by of purple and black doesn't seem to produce.

Nice bud,

I like the your use of colors, and just an all around attention to detail. Great work.

They are for lake run steelhead here in the heart of the great lakes. A few of these patterns have also proved themselves on the west coast as well.

I had some great success with this fly over the past year and has now become a staple in my box.

This is what the fly looked like originally before I decided to add a wing of bunny. I like using peacock for wing material, expecially with olive or white flies.

Nice work man. It seems that you've got that bronze mallard wing down pretty damn good.

This has been a real good fly when your looking for something with a natural tone and a lot of movement when you need to crank out some fishing flies.

Thanks for the photo steelhead69, i have tied something very similar but in all white for the lower niagara. Thanks for all the support guys.

Another Fly Done With Rabbit For the Wing. I know that having the skin of the Rabbit on the fly may take away from the overall appreaance of the fly but I think that having the rabbit with the skin attached may make the fly more durable. What do ya think. critisim is appreaciated.

Sweet man. I love the tubes man. You gotta come and fish those on the "catt" someday. I like that your ideas with material are original and your flies have materials with alot of movement. The idea of capturing the natural motion of "bait" is exquised.

Peace man,

Steve