fishyfranky

Thanks for the tip! Those are primo steelhead colours!

The Knights of Nymph created the fly using the fur of the killer rabbit Here is a modern variation: That OTHER fly tying forum

I read that the woolly bugger is supposed to be a hellgrammite I'm gonna try french braiding the marabou to get that flat undulating profile and see if it works any better.

I was fishing below a dam last year and saw a pile of cooked shrimp in the water. I guess someone dumped it and I thought it was kinda ignorant. I caught a nice smallmouth that day on a big black stonefly and during the fight it was coughing up shrimp!

I went out and got some black ostrich herl yesterday to tie up this pattern! Sad to say though its for steelhead It'll make a dynamite hellgramite!

I think you were silly to wait so long to tie flys! Those are definitely great bass patterns.

Just picked up one this evening! Great articles for guys like me who are far from knowing everything there is to know about fly tying. A simple 30 second read at the magazine stand was enough to convince me to get it. Loved the squid, I can see applications for the softex/stabilizer cloth for baitfish patterns like shad/shiners.

Yes I agree its a matter of the regulations. In some sections of the Grand River in Ontario Canada, the regulations are artificial lure, single barbless hook. Although these regions are maintained and promoted by fly fishers, a guy with a baitcaster chucking an 1oz double bladed spinnerbait (with a barbless hook) is legal while a fly fisher with a hopper/dropper is not.

I don't know if anyone else does this but if I add a bead to a pattern I go one size longer. For example, I use a Mustad 9672 instead of a 9671.

Ya that'll catch fish! I'm really liking the wets, keep them coming!

I like the name and great idea to use the pheasant rump as a collar. Definitely a fishy fly and one I'll be tying up!

Call it PGMM: Pretty Good Money Maker

I like Partridge because I've always had a thing for Susan Dey

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by fishyfranky: Spent Winter Black Stone

I admire creators of the woolly bugger and the muddler minnow. I am somewhat annoyed at the creators (whoever they may be) of the Clouser, Lefty's Deceiver, and Teeny's Nymph

Thanks guys, my new rotary vise really helped with the ribbing.

It took a bit of rolling the feather (gasp!) to get that shape but I wanted to see how it look like. I usually tie the wing the 'proper' way and on Mustad 3399A's. The Peter Ross and Alexandria are my favorite wets. I was going batty stocking up my steelhead woolly bugger box(es) so I decided to take a little break

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by fishyfranky: Yellow Thing

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by fishyfranky: Peter Ross

Yes, a three-spined stickleback! They, along with gobies, have infested the Great Lakes. The pattern here kinda looks like both and is a modification of a muddler minnow. I've been playing around with them last year after I heard reports that the forage base in the Great Lakes is changing. It seems steelhead have adapted to the new prey and are doing well. I mostly fish Lake Ontario tributaries and the fish there are very healthy.

Canadians say "I'll have a double-double". And "Rooool up the rim to win" is not a rude saying. But every morning for me is: extra large black, one sugar and two chocolate dip donuts = $3.16 CDN

Fly Tier's Benchside Reference page 431 "Lashed Bead Head" The bead is on a pin and lashed to the shank. The reference depicts bending the pin but I don't. Here's a possibly better picture: Here's the baitfish. Any guesses?

A new addition to the fly pattern database has been submitted by fishyfranky: InvasiveBaitfish

Use a glass bead caddis immitation. Its just some seed beads on a hook with some peacock herl for a head. The glitter really attracts them and they never seem to tire of it.

Scarface, yes, it does look like a floater. I suspect air trapped inside the tubing would definitely make for a bouyant fly. I think this is what they intended. For a sinking pattern, perhaps some clear silicone caulking instead would be better (as well as making sure no air is trapped) I'm also thinking of wrapping pearl crystal/cactus chenille as an underbody to give some form to the braided tubing. The idea is that the body should stay translucent. Sigh, so may ideas to try out and not enough time!