MuskyFlyGuy 0 Report post Posted January 4 Finished my last five SMB flies for next year. 3 Tequeelys and 2 Tequeely variants. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaLou 0 Report post Posted January 4 (edited) Ridgeback fly tied holding hook with fingers, almost in fingers a couple of times. Hook Black upholstery sewing thread (nylon heavy duty Coats & Clark) feather SH hard as nails alternating half hitch knots, needle tatting style down spine. Edited January 5 by LisaLou Edited for grammar error Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Knapp 0 Report post Posted January 5 1 hour ago, MuskyFlyGuy said: Finished my last five SMB flies for next year. 3 Tequeelys and 2 Tequeely variants. Nice, I'm going to make some. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MuskyFlyGuy 0 Report post Posted January 5 I made one of the variants with a tungsten bead to try and get it deep. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chugbug27 0 Report post Posted January 5 13 hours ago, LisaLou said: needle tatting style down spine Not sure what this means... But the effect is nice. On the upper sac they might call that an LBS fly. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DFoster 0 Report post Posted January 5 SIMPLE MIDGE LARVA HOOK: #16 CURVED UP EYE THREAD: 8/0 BLACK OR RED UNDER BODY: THREAD ABDOMEN/BODY: HARELINE MICRO TUBING - RED THORAX: MOLE SKIN DUBBING – BROWN OR BLACK HEAD: THREAD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Heff2 0 Report post Posted January 5 Scuds and other larve. I hoping to get out on the ice at some point this season and I tied up some bugs to use for panfish. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cphubert 0 Report post Posted January 5 17 hours ago, LisaLou said: Ridgeback fly LL if you get the chance to discover George Grant's work on woven flies you will be a natural. Keep at it I expect you will really enjoy and not struggle with the dark side of woven flies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chasing_Tails 0 Report post Posted January 5 36 minutes ago, cphubert said: LL if you get the chance to discover George Grant's work on woven flies you will be a natural. Keep at it I expect you will really enjoy and not struggle with the dark side of woven flies. I was going to suggest the same thing. Using simple embroidery yarn and plastic or aluminum forms you can create a wide variety of profiles. Woven Body Stonefly: Woven Body Dragonfly Nymph: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Knapp 0 Report post Posted January 5 2 hours ago, Chasing_Tails said: I was going to suggest the same thing. Using simple embroidery yarn and plastic or aluminum forms you can create a wide variety of profiles. Woven Body Stonefly: Woven Body Dragonfly Nymph: Beauty Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaLou 0 Report post Posted January 5 Thank you everyone. I did find out about George Grant here on this forum a day or so ago. There is a weaving book on Amazon kindle, if you have that service. It’s by the Gretchen and Al Beatty the art of the Weave. I can read some kindle books for free and this is one of them! They use Grants techniques and I am qoing to get hard paper copies of those books, plus one on glass beads I found out about on this forum. I have just glanced at the Beattie’s book last night and need to sit down and read it, but have family visiting all day. I will post a separate thread on some of the techniques from needlework I am using later in the weekend, with some links to decent instructional videos. Tatting is somewhat popular again after everyone needed hobbies for Covid, but is still basically unknown, or mistaken for micro macrame or crochet. Think macrame on a thread scale. I love thread and knotting so fly tying is perfect for me. Thank again, LL Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcozzz 0 Report post Posted January 5 Crazy,i watched an at random Oliver Edwards vid a few weeks ago and finally figured out some basic woven fly techniques,There are dozens of great YT tyers but i always found his to be the best and just so relaxing to watch him tie.Before my local fly shop closed 15 years ago ,he had a Polish immigrant lady who tyed the most beautiful woven flies in his shop.You had to get on a waiting list for them.Now i am becoming quite addicted to these methods.I am far from good yet but am giving it some effort.It is fun and i believe some of these bugs will work for my fishing.I love tying but in the end they must also catch a fish.The woven stone and dragon nymphs are stunning and i believe they will catch fish.I know they will. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wildwilly 0 Report post Posted January 5 38 minutes ago, LisaLou said: Thank you everyone. I did find out about George Grant here on this forum a day or so ago. There is a weaving book on Amazon kindle, if you have that service. It’s by the Gretchen and Al Beatty the art of the Weave. I can read some kindle books for free and this is one of them! They use Grants techniques and I am qoing to get hard paper copies of those books, plus one on glass beads I found out about on this forum. I have just glanced at the Beattie’s book last night and need to sit down and read it, but have family visiting all day. I will post a separate thread on some of the techniques from needlework I am using later in the weekend, with some links to decent instructional videos. Tatting is somewhat popular again after everyone needed hobbies for Covid, but is still basically unknown, or mistaken for micro macrame or crochet. Think macrame on a thread scale. I love thread and knotting so fly tying is perfect for me. Thank again, LL I bought and have read the Beatty's book on weaving. I found several of the description hard to follow. An extra photo or two would have helped in these cases. If you are really interested in a particular weave I recommend you search on it and compare writeups with those of the Beatty's. There are generally better ones out there. One of the Beatty's writeups, the Houdini Weave, just starts wrong. so definitely search for the originator's videos. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RickZieger 0 Report post Posted January 5 The Beatty's also did a video on the Grant weave. Look at their you-tube channel Rick Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LisaLou 0 Report post Posted January 6 (edited) Beaded Fly inspired by forum here. Tied in-hand Size 6 octopus hook size 6 AB crystal (AB=aurora borealis iridescent finish, common bead term) Metallic silver thread Coats & Clark red feather SH hard as nails hardener I made the head first, oversized and jammed the first bead on, then went around the outside to wind a few times behind the bead. I then put on two beads and fed the feather in from the back, quill first through the two beads. I left some feather out for the tail. The feather inside the two beads gives the body a red tint. I tied the feather down behind the first bead and made the hackle and tied it down and snipped the excess feather off. I then did some wraps down around the beads to the tail and back up again with the nearly invisible silver thread. I did some half hitches behind the hackle to tie off. (The metallic thread was not the best for whip finish, the metal wanted to bunch up and slide down the core, instead of sliding under the wraps) I put a little nail polish on a toothpick and touched the thread by head and tail. LisaLou Edited January 6 by LisaLou Grammar Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
