September Flies From the Vise

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Parker

Hook - Mustad Heritage S82AP
Thread - Black
Tail - Guinea hen
Body - Red or scarlet wool, not too fat
Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - Guinea hen
Hackle - Brown

[RickZieger 0]

palmer chenille like yarn on jig hook with marabou tail. Also tie on hook with glass bead and brass bead heads.

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Cream Z Wing Caddis Pupa

 

Hook: #14 Scud

Bead: Gold 7/64"

Weight: .015 Lead Free

Thread: Tan 8/0 Uni

Body: Cream Rabbit Dub

Shellback: Turkey

Rib: 140 Denier Gray Brown Ultra Thread

Wing Buds: Cream Sparkle Emerger Yarn

Thorax: Gray Ostrich Herl

[RickZieger 0]

red yarn and swiss straw back.

[DarrellP 0]

Pistol Pete bugger

2 Bass stinger hook

Black 6/0 Uni thread

Black Marabou tail with Blue Christmas tinsel

Black Chenile wrapped with black Schlappen

Silver cone

Propeller

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I got a generous offer to fish a private lake ( large pond) to fish for bluegills. 
Was told that they hit brassies pretty well. So I decided to tie up some. 
 

Wasn’t sure what size, so I tied up a few in a bunch of sizes.

hook,   nymph of various sizes, 8,- 18

brass body, black vevus thread, hurl. 

[DarrellP 0]

Brassies work great for bluegills 

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Claret Quill

Hook - Mustad Heritage S82AP
Thread - Black
Tail - Claret hackle fibers
Ribbing - Stripped peacock herl
Body - Claret floss
Hackle Claret
Wing - Brown turkey

Family Circle's Guide to Trout Flies

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So on a couple of the tailwaters I fish they have some green drakes still hatching through most of August so need to restock the boxes for next year.  Even when you only see a few on the water the fish seem to move a long way to take these over pmd or bwo hatching at the same time.

Hackle stacker green drake

 

Some hints for tying “hackle stacker” for right handed tyers.  This is a bit windy but here goes.  I tried a few of these many years ago using the 6 loops of thread or whatever the original called for and without a special post to hold it up while you wrap the hackle around a flimsy thread post then fold over.  Was not practical to hold that and keep everything together so never tried again til about 5 years ago.  So……a much easier method is to tie in your tail material of choice, take about 12” of 5x leader96x for size 18 and smaller if you like and fold over and tie in the two loose ends with facing back very tightly so you are folding over the mono when you fold the wing forward, tie in your hackle, hold the mess out of the way while you get the that to back of hook, apply your dubbing then dub to just behind eye of hook leaving about 1/16” or a little more of space hook the mono loop over your little finger of your left hand then wrap the hackle parachute style around the mono post up so that the height is about the same distance as from tie in point to tie off point(I do not find it necessary to wrap up the post then back down or tie off the hackle as it is held down tight and cannot unwind) then take your fingernail and compress the hackle a little as necessary, pull the mono over and tie down with 3-4 wraps and fold the mono back and make 3-4 mor wraps and whip finish.  Cut the mono and hackle stem close with one blade of your scissors or with the tips just barely open pushing into the tensioned material so you don’t cut the wrapped hackle. Manipulating the hackle with your fingertips is a bit of a challenge to get down but once you do they go pretty quick. Using a long saddle hackle helps and I do not use a hackle plier until I get to the last inch or so. I can crank out one with split tails ever 5 minutes so way faster than the original method and very durable.  Can tie close to a dozen flies with one piece of mono and one long saddle hackle in smaller sizes.  Soak the hackle stem in a little water for a minute or two as they will spit trying to wrap around the small diameter of the mono. They float well, are fairly easy to see and sit low in the water so for picky fish…...well you get the idea

Hackle stacker green drake

Hook-standard length dry 10

Thread-8/0 Semplerfly, that stuff is super strong.

Tail-micro fibbetts split

Body-Semperlfi fine dubbing

Wing-blue dun hackle 1-1/2 -2X hook gap

 

 

Hackle stacker green drake-rusty dun variation-please ignore the stray hair hanging down in the picture, lol

Hook-standard length dry 10

Thread-8/0 Semplerfly

Tail-micro fibbetts split

Body-Semperlfi fine dubbing

Wing-“rusty” blue dun hackle 1-1/2 -2X hook gap

 

 

Hackle stacker green drake-sparkle dun variation

Hook-standard length dry 10

Thread-8/0 Semplerfly

Tail/trailing husk-burnt orange/olive mixed darlon

Body-Semperlfi fine dubbing

Wing-“rusty” blue dun hackle 1-1/2 -2X hook gap

I had this Metz saddle from about 1980 that is mostly size 12-8 hackles that has this unusual rusty dun color and really had not used much but this is perfect for these critters I think.  The yellowish at the base of the feathers is the fat from the skin dissolving and soaking part way up the stem for those who have never seen it.  Doesn’t hurt a thing.

 

 

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Green Drake cripple

Tail and body-olive marabou

Rib-reddish copper wire

Hackle-Chartreuse died grizzly clipped on the bottom

Wing-dyed olive elk hair

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Green drake dun

Tail-micro fibbetts split

Body-Semperfly fine dubbing

Hackle-Chartreuse died grizzly clipped on the bottom

Wing-CDC

 

 

 

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Green Drake dun-no hackle

This thing probably will twist the hell out of the leader so may turn out impossible to fish but who knows.  Will try next season.

Tail- micro fibbets split

Body-Semperfli fine dubbing

Wing-goose quill 

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Green Drake-AP Nymph

Learned this one from the man himself, Andre Puyans.  This was a variant he came up with adding marabou gills on each side of body brushed out after ribbing the fly.

Tail and wing case-Dark moose body hair

Rib-Reddish copper wire

Body and head-Muskrat dyed olive brown

Gills-olive marabou

 

[chugbug27 0]

Nice set of green drakes! 

[niveker 0]

Nice ties @fishfrnzy2