BillNye

I don't post here too often but I thought I'd add this fly that I've been having a lot of success with so far this season. Striper can't get enough of the Big Eelie in the surf over sandy beaches. Hook - EC 254 3/0 Thread - Uni 6/0 in white Tail - Sparse white bucktail, under 1 white hackle, under 4 strands of pearl flash, under a thin yellow hackle, under a thin blue hackle, under an olive hackle. All hackle tied in flat. Body - Bills Bodi-braid in pearl Neck - white marabou folded in half.... 2ish turns.

I placed an order with FE a couple weeks ago for flatwing feathers because they are really hard to find and no local fly shops carry them even though I live in striper central. A local fly shop recommended ordering from FE unsolicited and showed me some of the feathers he got there. I had no problem with my order and got my feathers a couple days after ordering. The quality of the feathers are pretty good and the price was very fair. Just placed another order tonight.

Night time version of a deceiverish pattern.

Thanks. I hooked into some nice bass feeding along a rocky shore with this even though they were eating ~2 in peanut bunker.

I prefer to use a 10 wt when fishing the beach or rocky shore line in the fall as big fish are running close to shore , albies are around and it’s usually pretty windy. My go to line is rio outbound short usually go with the Intermediate as it’s easier to manage in the surf but I go to a fast sinker when wind is really kicking up. Fishing a fast sinker is tough around here because there are always rocks and seaweed to snag on so a quick retrieve and good line management is necessary. edit Didnt see this was from 2 months ago

Haven’t posted here in a while but thought I’d post this one since I had good luck last night with it. Nothing fancy… Hook - ec 254 thread - fine mono tail - white buck tail, white hackle feathers, pearl krystal flash and grizzly neck hackle body - bills bodibraid collar - bucktail in rays fly colors with 5 or 6 peacock herls.

Double post please delete!

Tied some baitfish patterns for this weekend’s pike fishing trip.

Just ordered a baitfish box from fly tyers dungeon to start tying some saltwater baitfish patterns. I’m no where near the skill level of the tyers on this forum but I thought I’d post something.

Looks great. As Kelly would say that fly will hunt.

Thank you for the replies everyone. Here is an image of one of the smoke wagons I tied. I apologize in advance for my tying. Even though alot of my flies are not the prettiest it has been nice catching fish on them. I almost exclusively fish things I tie now so it's been pretty encouraging when I'm able to fool the native brook trout. https://imgur.com/Wn6lSc7 Another question I had was regarding wet flies. Is there a big difference between tying with silk vs UTC 70? I have been tying up some partridge and orange/olive as well as a few poachers and haven't had much luck with them compared to streamers.

I'm new to tying and trying to figure out what I can do to make my flies swim right side up with the hook on the bottom. I tied a few Smoke Wagons and a wooly bugger with a marabou wing on top and both of these flies swam upside down through the water. They were tied on a size 8 3x hook with a brass bead head. What is the trick to getting them to swim the right way with the extra marabou tied in?