August Flies From the Vise

[WWKimba 0]

Spent Blue - This is one of Clarence Roberts lesser known patterns first tied around 1950.  Clarence was a Michigan Game Warden from 1942 - 1971as well as being an accomplished fly fisher and tyer.  This is a searcher/attractor pattern.

 

Hook - Mustad 94840, 10-12

Thread - black

Tail - wood duck flank fibers

Wing - badger hackle tips, tied spent and separated

Rib - flat gold tinsel

Body - pale blue floss

Hackle - brown and grizzly hackle, mixed

[RickZieger 0]

A couple of woven with rubber legs. From embroidery thread.

[Philly 0]

Thought I was finished with my flies for Ontario.  I went through one of my boxes and removed some colors that haven't worked in a while.  Tied these up to fill up the spaces.

Three supersized floating mop flies.  Tied on 1/0 Gamakatsu stinger hooks.  I can use them as poppers or sub-surface.

Messing with a couple of articulate flies.  Basically Wooly Bugger bodies on articulated shanks with a Daiichi 2461 size 1.  Head is a reversed soft foam popper body.  I can fish them either on the surface or subsurface of a sinking or intermediate line.

Flies are done and packed.

[SBPatt 0]

Melonistic

It’s all about the substrate; the dubbing was a piece of white rabbit and took on a nice pinkish-orange color while the hackle and partridge showed very little of the pink.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange 
tag - medium tinsel opal 
rib - small wire gold
body  - dyed melon (3 Tsp Rit Neon Yellow, 1/8 Tsp Rit Coral/2 cups water) 
body hackle - grizzly dyed melon 
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body red
2nd shoulder - chukar dyed melon

Regards,
Scott 

[DarrellP 0]

11 hours ago, WWKimba said:

Spent Blue - This is one of Clarence Roberts lesser known patterns first tied around 1950.  Clarence was a Michigan Game Warden from 1942 - 1971as well as being an accomplished fly fisher and tyer.  This is a searcher/attractor pattern.

 

Hook - Mustad 94840, 10-12

Thread - black

Tail - wood duck flank fibers

Wing - badger hackle tips, tied spent and separated

Rib - flat gold tinsel

Body - pale blue floss

Hackle - brown and grizzly hackle, mixed

Kim, I like this one a lot.

[flytire 0]

Pineapple

Hook - Gamakatsu J20-B or equivalent

Bead - Copper tungsten slotted bead

Thread - Black

Tail - Coq de Leon

Body - Opal mirage tinsel

Wing - Yellow antron yarn

Thorax - Black ice dubbing

[flytire 0]

Psycho Prince

Hook – Mustad 3906B, sizes 12-18

Bead - Gold or copper brass or tungsten bead

Weight – Lead free wire

Thread - Black

Tail - Brown goose biot

Body - Ice dubbing in your favorite color

Shellback - Mottled oak turkey tail fibers

Rib - Copper wire

Wing bud - Yellow antron yarn

Wing – White goose biots

Collar - Ice dubbing on your favorite color

https://flyfishingthesierra.com/pyschoprince.htm

[SBPatt 0]

Brindle Crippler 

Softhackle Hecuba (western Fall Drake) based, loosely, on Chuck Stranahan’s Brindle Chute.

hook - WFC Model 6 #12
thread - Danville 6\0 orange 
tag - medium tinsel gold 
rib - small wire gold
body - 50% hare's ear/antron, 25% olive rabbit/antron, 25% rust orange rabbit/antron (add a little gold rabbit after the other stuff's all blended)
body hackles - ginger/furnace
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body red
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown

Regards,
Scott 

[WWKimba 0]

Spent Wing Caddis Hex - This is a pattern that was quite popular in the Traverse City, MI area back in the 1940's.  Its originator's name has been lost to history.  This is a pattern to imitate the Hexagenia limbata mayfly.  This is a nice beginner pattern as it uses only 2 ingredients - the body fur and brown hackle!

Hook - Mustad 9672, 6-12 (Mustad 94840 or 94833 may be used as well)

Thread - brown

Tail - brown hackle tips, tied short

Rib - brown hackle, palmered

Body - yellow spun fur or floating yarn (may be tied using orange or green as well)

Wing - brown hackle tips, tied spent

Hackle - brown hackle

[richmce 0]

philly if your trim the tails to a point on your mops, they will have more whip action,..  best of luck to you on your trip

[WWKimba 0]

Streamside Mahogany - Designed by Mark Lord in 1996.  Mark named this fly for the Streamside Orvis Shop in Traverse City, MI where he worked and tied flies for.  Mark used Rit Wine dye for the deer hair in this fly.  This fly was designed as an imitation for both of Michigan's Isonychia hatches. 

Hook - Orvis 1523, 12 (Mustad 94840 used above)

Thread - grey

Tail - yearling elk hock

Post - dun colored calf body or tail hair or grey poly (poly used above)

Rib - crisscrossed tying thread

Body - claret or wine colored deer hair, flared at the hook bend

Hackle - grizzly, tied parachute

[SBPatt 0]

Bad Claret

Based the color scheme on the[url= https://www.flyfishing.co.uk/threads/stone-goat-clan-goat.617923/#post-2804191]Stone Goat[/url] lough fly.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/ wine 
tail - yarn sunburst
rib - small wire silver
body - claret/black
body hackles - black/bad claret (1/2 Tsp Rit Fuchsia, 1/8 Tsp Rit Wine 2 cups water)
1st shoulder - hen badger dyed bad claret 
2nd shoulder - chukar dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)

Regards,
Scott 

[niveker 0]

Hale Bopp Leech - for the Mini Leech swap 

Hook: #16, 2xl

Head: 2.8mm, black nickel

Weight: @ 8 turns .02 lead wire, flattened

Thread: 8/0 red Uni-Thread

Tail: black & red marabou fibers (2/1)

Body: mix of black & red wool yarn, claret imitation seal, course black synthetic dubbing (1/1/1) in a dubbing loop

[DarrellP 0]

Carey Specials.

Size 8, 2x long numph hook

Pheasant rump tail and hackle

Peacock helr body

Sm copper uni wire rib

8-0 olive uni thread

[RickZieger 0]

An experiment. tail and wings white biots. body  barbs from turkey body feather.   Got a gill on this this last week. as well as I did on any ohter flky.