December Flies From the Vise

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Skip Nymph Regular

 

Skip Morris 

 

Hook -Any regular-shank, 1X or 2X long, heavy wire nymph hook sizes 8 - 20

Weight - Copper or lead wire

Thread - Black or brown 

Ribbing - Small copper wire

Abdomen And Thorax - Fur from a natural hare’s mask

Tails And Wing Case - Pheasant-tail fibers

 

Skip Nymph Dark

 

Hook - Any regular-shank, 1X or 2X long, heavy wire nymph hook sizes 8 - 20

Weight - Copper or lead wire

Thread - Black or brown 

Ribbing - Small copper wire

Abdomen And Thorax - Fur from a dyed brown hare’s mask

Tails And Wing Case - Pheasant-tail fibers

 

Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple: An Easy-to-Follow All-Color Guide - Skip Morris

[wildwilly 0]

Looks like a combo of a Pheasant Tail and Hare's Ear Nymph, two famous "parents".

[Heff2 0]

Wanted to try a fully dressed fly 

Durham Ranger 

hook: 2/0 salmon with twisted mono for eye 

Tip: silver oval, yellow floss

Tail: golden pheasant topped with chin feather from dyed red golden pheasant, black ostrich herl

body: yellow floss, orange seal fur, burnt orange seal fur, black seal fur.  Should have a badger hackle but I forgot it. 

rib: silver flat tinsel with silver oval on top 

Throat: light blue hackle 

Wing: jungle cock, tippet

topping: golden pheasant crests

Cheek: jungle cock and light blue tips from dyed turkey flats 

should have horns but I’m still waiting for my macaw tail to arrive.  

 

 

 

 

 

[Squeezy 0]

First attempt at an articulated fly. 
 

spirit river BB089 sz 10 in the rear

spirit river BB089 sz 6 up front

Fiery Brown saddle hackle, medium brown krystal hackle body, sculpin olive marabou, UTC 140 dark brown, beadalon with glass bead 

[DarrellP 0]

Starting strong!

[Sandan 0]

BWO emerger,  Timmy.

Hook: U202 size 20

Thread: 18/0 brown nano silk GSP

Tail/shuck: moose body

Thorax/abdomen: extremely fine gray dun

Wings: Dun McFlylon

 

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Nighthawk

Tip - Oval silver tinsel and yellow floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest and blue hackle fibers
Butt - Red wool
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Hackle - Black
Wing - Black squirrel or bucktail
Cheeks - Blue hackle tips or kingfisher

Hairwings - W. W. Doak and Sons Ltd. Fly Fishing Tackle (wwdoak.com)

[SalarMan 0]

One of my all time favorite patterns...well done Norm!!

[Heff2 0]

Norm, That Nighthawk is real clean.  Did you use bucktail or were you able to source some black squirrel?  I recall we looking for it at one point.  

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Oakham Orange 

hook: Daiichi 1180 sz 12

thread: hot orange 

tail: orange hackle fibres 

body: silver tinsel with loose coil of orange saddle

rib: silver tinsel 

collar: orange hackle 

Oakham Orange grizzled

hook: low water salmon sz 12 

thread: hot orange 

tail: grizzly orange hackle fibres 

body: silver tinsel with loose coil of grizzly orange saddle

rib: silver tinsel 

collar: grizzly orange hackle 

 

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Weapon of Revenge

Hook - Mustad 9671, size 14

Thread - Brown

Weight - Lead free wire

Body - Tan and brown medium chenille*

Vinyl cement

*I used ultra chenille. 

The original recipe called for standard medium chenille with the cut ends dipped in vinyl cement to prevent fraying.

Could this have been an early version of the San Juan Worm in 1980? 

 

[Heff2 0]

Sculpin Slider 

Hook: gamakatsu sc15 

thread: uni olive 6/0 and Veevus 200D GSP for the deer hair

tail: olive zonker strip

eyes: med tungsten painted red 

Body: white and gold mixed ice dub 

head: green and brown deer hair 

[johnnyquahog 0]

Bullet head slider

hook - #1 Ahrex minnow

tail - natural (not dyed) saddles and natural bucktail

body - natural deer hair

[MuskyFlyGuy 0]

JQ,

Beautiful fly and tie!

Tom

[johnnyquahog 0]

Say thanks MFG, and another