January Flies from The Vise

[Piker20 0]

21 hours ago, flytire said:

Colin

where have you been? Welcome back

i will make an attempt at the Megan Boyd shrimp

i will have to order a couple of materials 

stay tuned

Hey Norm. We moved house and i moved jobs and life just seemed to over take me a bit. Haven't really been near the vice for years now but it's set up and my son wants to get into the fly fishing more now,  so hopefully 2023 will see me fly fishing and tying with a vengeance. I have a loch that has a rich shrimp life so plan to fill a box with scuds and shrimp types.

[flytire 0]

2 hours ago, gillage said:

Curious, you opted out of the short tail on this tie?

"Next, tie in a small clump of gray squirrel hair over top of hook so that the ends extend back just beyond the bend of the hook."

from:PICKET FINN

 

your link doesnt work

i'm not gonna argue about a missing tail

[flytire 0]

1 hour ago, Piker20 said:

Hey Norm. We moved house and i moved jobs and life just seemed to over take me a bit. Haven't really been near the vice for years now but it's set up and my son wants to get into the fly fishing more now,  so hopefully 2023 will see me fly fishing and tying with a vengeance. I have a loch that has a rich shrimp life so plan to fill a box with scuds and shrimp types.

👍👍

 

[gillage 0]

1 hour ago, flytire said:

your link doesnt work

i'm not gonna argue about a missing tail

Link works now.

No argument, just an observation.

Pickett Finn

[flytire 0]

Picket Finn

per the link?

Ausable River - Adirondack Fly fishing Fly of the month, fly tieing, fly Fishing (archive.org)

[Poopdeck 0]

Time to lower the curve. These should do me until I run out sometime this summer. Oh dang, I don’t have any brown.

 

[DFoster 0]

FER DE LANCE

HOOK: GREEN CADDIS GC254B CURVED UP EYE #14

THREAD: UTC LIGHT BROWN

TAIL: DARK GREY HEN FIBERS

ABDOMEN/BODY: PINE SQUIRREL SPUN WITH A DUBBING LOOP

HACKLE: DARK GREY HEN

HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

 

[DFoster 0]

This is just a basic nymph pattern using natural and dyed pheasant tail and peacock.  I also used various colors of holographic tinsel and wire.

HOLOGRAPHIC QUILL NYMPH

HOOK: STANDARD NYMP #18

THREAD: BLACK 6/0

TAIL: PHEASANT TAIL FIBERS

ABDOMEN/BODY: PHEASANT TAIL FIBERS

RIB: XTRA SMALL WIRE

WING CASE: HOLOGRAPHIC TINSEL

THORAX: PEACOCK HERL

HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

[Piker20 0]

poopdeck I look forward to seeing what those frogs get to eat them. 

[Poopdeck 0]

7 hours ago, Piker20 said:

poopdeck I look forward to seeing what those frogs get to eat them. 

I use them at  a local canal I fish for bass and pickerel. Unfortunately I don’t take pictures of most fish since I stopped doing so years ago unless they are a personal best. In the case of bass and pickerel, I don’t think there is one big enough in the canal for me to take a picture but you never know what your going to run into. 

[ScienceGuy141 0]

 

Zoo cougar

 

Hook: Firehole 811 size 4 (used my last daiichi 2461 size 4 for the cougar in the challenge thread)

 

Tail: brown marabou

Body: pearl sparkle braid

Underwing: calf tail

Wing: two mallard flank feathers dyed wood duck gold

Collar/head: natural deer hair

 

I think the head shape on this fly is better than the one I posted in the challenge thread. 

[DarrellP 0]

Science Guy and DFoster, great ties!

[Guest]

Kinda late but shrimp tied on a tube. 
Nothing fancy just clipped the ends off a plastic Qutip, melted the ends a lil and dressed.  Had some bug eyed 3407DT Mustads tied on 12# TryleneBigGame mono.  
 

[niveker 0]

5 hours ago, cencalfly said:

California Mosquito

Nice. Reminds me of the 'secret fly' from the back-woods of Maine, the Slim Jim

[caddis16 0]

Joes Hopper