Jaydub

Blue Upright

Hook: Standard Dry Fly

Wings: Duck quill sections

Tail: Dun hackle fibers

Body: Stripped Peacock herl

Hackle: Dun

Ginger Quill

Hook: Standard Dry Fly

Wings: Duck quill sections

Tail: Ginger hackle fibers

Body: Stripped Peacock herl

Hackle: Ginger

5 hours ago, cencalfly said:

Nice looking Sceeter Jaydub.  I use Moose hair for the body on my flies as well.  What size are you tying those at and are you using 1xl or 2xl hooks?  

 

Thanks. I have tied them in sizes from 12 to 20. Smaller sizes for streams, bigger for lakes. I just use standard length hooks.

The California Mosquito is a great stillwater midge imitation. I prefer the traditional Mosquito body with alternating light and dark Moose mane. I also like to tie the wings flat over the body and divided in a 'V' shape.

Someone posted this on another site.

https://www.donaldlbarberfuneralhome.com/obituary/Kim-Bowman?utm_source=obit-share&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=relationship-bar&utm_content=copy-link

The parachute will work fine as a spinner pattern. And sometimes an upright wing (not spent) spinner works. It could also imitate a mahogany dun (Paraleptophlebia).

Your making good progress. As far as improvements, I would thin out the body and tighten up the parachute wraps.

With that hair (many broken tips), you'll never get a fly as pretty as Norm's example. If your aim is to catch fish, it probably doesn't matter. 

I would work on cleaning up the head area. You can either trim the butts before tying in the wing or leave them long, tie in the wing, pull back the butts and whip finish under them, then trim. 

Be sure to clean out all of the fuzz from the hair before attempting to stack it. The large stacker can be used for smaller flies. Hold it at an angle so that the hair stays on one side of the stacker and tap on the edge of the table.

TMC 100 is really a dry fly hook. Of course, you could use it for wet flies, it's just a light wire hook. 

Daiichi 1560 is a 1xl nymph/wet fly hook. The 1550 is standard length. I use the 1xl for most nymphs. 

Sticking with TMC and Daiichi (there are a lot of cross reference charts out there):

1. California mosquito: TMC 100, Daiichi 1100 or 1170, 1190(barbless)

2. Soft hackle wet flys: TMC 3761 0r 3769 or Daiichi 1550 or 1560

3. Black gnat: Dry see 1 above. Wet see 2 above. 

4. BH Soft hackle: TMC 3761 or Daiichi 1560

I just leave them on the whole feather until I need them.

8 hours ago, Heff2 said:

Great Tie, I struggle with getting hackle to wrap around such and thin “post” or I would take the found link.  @Poopdeck I know you’re on a hackle stacker kick.  

The original Found Link is not a Hackle Stacker, If that makes it more tempting.

March Brown Wet Fly

Hook: Wet fly

Tag: Gold tinsel

Tail: Pintail flank dyed Wood duck

Rib: Gold oval tinsel

Body: Hare's mask blend

Hackle: Brown Partridge

Wings: Mottled Turkey

March Brown Spider

Hook: Wet Fly

Thread: Red, Danville 6/0

Rib: Gold oval tinsel

Body: Hare's mask blend

Hackle: Brown Partridge

You guys are knocking it out of the park with Norm's Wet flies and Streamers, and Poopdeck's Hackle Stackers.

Sounds like a real defensive battle. 

Properly dismantling a radio tower requires specialized skill, equipment and time. Especially one that old where all of the sections are probably rusted together. My guess is they just removed the guy wires and toppled it over, then cut it up for scrap. 

16 hours ago, chugbug27 said:

Anyone use one of these extra long, straight flat bulldog clips in lieu of the Swiss clip or petitjean clips for setting up hair, fur and feathers on a dubbing loop? 

 

Seems like it would work, but I would look at how well it closes at the handle end. Any gap can cause the clamped materials to be loose.

And yet there will be 65000 willing suckers (I mean participants).

25 minutes ago, niveker said:

 

Do you use that for fly storage?

Yes I have some stored that way and some in plastic compartment boxes. 

On 1/27/2024 at 8:22 AM, Fruitrollup said:

For the next challenge fly, tie Mike Schmidt’s Viking Midge

I had to look that up. Not what I expected for a "Midge". LOL

I don't have any plans, but I made dividers for some shallow metal drawers that I have.

It's made from 1/8" MDF. The dividers interlock with table saw kerf-width cuts of half the depth. Here is one of the dividers removed to give you the idea.

I started by ripping the strips to width.

To cut the slots, I used a sacrificial extension attached to the miter gauge. I added a short 1/8" pin to the extension, to set the spacing. I could cut one slot, drop that slot over the pin, cut the next slot, drop that slot over the pin an repeat... I think that I may have clamped several strips together for this operation. It's been a few years.

Green Butt Skunk

Hook: TMC 7999

Thread: Black, Danville 6/0

Tag: Silver tinsel

TailL Red hackle fibers

Butt: Chartreuse yarn

Rib: Silver oval tinsel

Body: Black Angora Goat dubbing

Hackle: Black

Wing: White hair, might be skunk or kidd goat. The label is gone.

12 hours ago, SilverCreek said:

I suspect that some of the best fly tyers are the commercial fly tyers in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Chaing Mai is the hub of the fly tying industry in Asia and many of the flies you buy are tied there.

Almost all of them are women. They work out of their homes and they make more money than their husbands.

They tie over a hundred flies a day, thousands in a month. And tens of thousands in a year; year after year.

Gary Borger was hired by a company to teach new patterns to these tyers and he said that they were some of the best fly tyers he has ever seen. He said one lady specialized tying Royal Wulffs which is a difficult fly to tie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/04/20/fly-fishing-industry-catches-on-in-thailand/f88f8f8c-76aa-4240-9f97-42b8de3f362b/

Yup. I alluded to that here. 

On 1/9/2024 at 8:20 AM, Jaydub said:

The best fly tier ever is a woman from southeast Asia, who has never written an article or filmed a Youtube video. 

3 hours ago, DFoster said:

My take on the Montana Nymph- 

MONTANA NYMPH VARIANT

HOOK: #12 3XL CURVED

THREAD: #70 BLACK

TAIL: MARABOU BLACK

ABDOMEN/BODY: PHEASANT TAIL - BLACK

RIB: OVAL TINSEL - SILVER

WING CASE: SCHLAPPEN FIBERS – BLACK, U.V. RESIN

THORAX: 50/50 MIX CHARTRUESE AND GREEN ICE DUBBING

LEGS: SCHLAPPEN FIBERS - BLACK

HEAD: U.V. RESIN  

 

I like it, but I think this is a case where it is a whole new pattern. Name it and sell it to one of the big fly companies. 

The best fly tier ever is a woman from southeast Asia, who has never written an article or filmed a Youtube video.