March Flies From the Vise

[Squeezy 0]

Surface Seducer Double Barrel Popper

I am ready for a gnawed up thumb  

 

[Guest]

Can’t tell but Kudos on the traditional splayed hackle tails and matching hackle wraps.👍   I like to take pliers and needle and insert legs but prolly not necessary…    Take lil pause before setting the hook will increase hook ups.

 

 

[flytire 0]

Condor

Soft hackle

Dwight Thornton, 1980's

Body - Condor quill barb*
Hackle - Starling

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

*I used actual condor quill barb but gray goose or swan are acceptable substitutes. Back in the 1980's it was readily available.

[SalarMan 0]

My kind of fly and trout love these simple patterns. Do they work for you on the streams you fish?

[niveker 0]

14 hours ago, upnorthtier said:

White marabou muddler minnow

That looks good.

 

[upnorthtier 0]

12 hours ago, Squeezy said:

I like that!  Sharp looking fly. Business up front with a little party out back

It is one of my go to fly for lake trout, the laker on my profile pic was one of them.

Really like you're popper also, would work great for pikes up here.

[upnorthtier 0]

46 minutes ago, niveker said:

That looks good.

Thanks

[flytire 0]

Cutthroat

Winged Wet Fly

Glen L Evans, 1930's

Tail - Black hackle fibers
Body - Red chenille
Hackle - Black
Wing - White duck/goose quill

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples
The Fisherman's Handbook of Trout Flies - Donald Du Bois

[SalarMan 0]

Interesting pattern...and a great job on the wing set!

[jcozzz 0]

I like the double barrel poppers but have had much more success with my own balsa bass bugs,here are a couple mounted on stinger hooks to be dressed soon.These ride lower in the water and are more of a strip pause type bait.

 

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Big Trout

Winged Wet Fly

Jack Boehme, 1930's

Tail - Brown mallard

Body - 1 each stripped yellow and brown hackle stem

Hackle - Grizzly

Wing - Gray duck quill

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

 

[Guest]

Funny when peeps go to the trouble to put eyeballs on Sowbugs….

[jcozzz 0]

DD- Nice work- i used to tie some little shrimp,kind of based on sow bugs and grass shrimp.We do have little shrimp not many and smaller than grass shrimp.I tied them similar to yours but put little attenae and tiny burnt mono eyes at the bend instead of the eye.The sunnies loved em and occasionally a crappie or bullhead.Good fun on 3wt fishing local ponds.I have a box somewhere of proto types of every halfway decent fly i ever came up with.Will try to find the tiny shrimp,was also a good baby crawdas pattern in DK brown.

[Guest]

MardisGras clearances….

 

[Guest]

6 hours ago, jcozzz said:

eyes at the bend instead of the eye.

Good idea.  Although shrimp swim forwards but “pop” backwards, I don’t see it matters.   These are for Ozark trouting to be drifted drag free.   Could be  taken as maybe mysis shrimp or even scuds. I have 2 shrimp patterns for the salt that work great that are forward.  Slow strip and pause after jerk doesn’t matter.   Mostly fish couple of them dangling under a click popper.   Cdads?