August Flies From the Vise

[Sandan 0]

Double duck caddis

Hook: Fulling mill 5050(dry fly) size 16

Thread: UTC 70, Rusty brown

Bubble:Tan CDC

Abdomen: Natural spiky fox squirrel in a split thread dubbing loop.

Wing: Caddis dun CDC

Head: Brown emergence dubbing

[flytire 0]

Murray Coachman

 

Hook - Wet fly

Thread - Black

Tail - White

Body - Peacock herl, red floss, peacock herl

Hackle - Brown

Wing - Slate duck or goose quill segments

 

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

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

[flytire 0]

 

Clape

 

Hook - Wet fly

Thread - Black

Tail - Scarlet & yellow

Body - Yellow chenille

Hackle - Yellow

Wing - Yellow duck or goose quill segments with scarlet stripe up each side

 

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

[RickZieger 0]

I think the Langiwin and Clape would be great for crappie.

Rick

[flytire 0]

👍👍

and for bluegills

[Capt Bob LeMay 0]

Here's a pair of streamers done with saddle hackles - but quite different from each other as I prep up for September (when snook season opens down here in south Florida..). 

The first one is a Silhouette on a 2/0 Tiemco 800s hook (long discontinued, these days you can't get one larger than a #2...).  Fl. green dyed strung saddles for both tail and body (six saddles for the tail done "deceiver" style, not splayed...), then a bit of pearl Flashabou Accent, and a palmered body with three saddles and an ex-small presentation lead eye and a wire weedguard.  This pattern is designed to mimic the shape of our most common baitfish, the pilchard (or scaled sardine...) and it sinks between strips.  Most of these I do in plain white - this color variation works well in off-color waters.. for every specie we encounter in the backcountry.. 

The second pattern is my version of Chico Fernandez's famous Seaducer on a lighter Mustad 34007 hook and in a smaller size #1 to keep the fly as light as possible.  This pattern is meant to suspend between strips and works well in the shallowest waters (less than two feet - at times less than one foot, if we can reach the fish in those kinds of places... Instead of a streamer style tail - for this pattern the tail is splayed, and the eyes, hard plastic doll eyes glued in place after the fly is done, complete the pattern.  The flash you can see is a mix of pearl Flashabou and copper Flashabou Accent laid in between the saddles for the tail...  Like most of my stuff, this one also sports a wire weedguard.   These strung saddles, by the way are not grizzly - but listed as "natural variant" and work nicely for times when a darker fly is the choice...

[flytire 0]

Army Worm

 

Hook - Wet fly

Thread - White under floss body; Black head

Ribbing - Green floss

Body - Yellow floss

Hackle - Gray (grizzly)

Wing - Peacock herl or sword feathers

 

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

[flytire 0]

Peterie’s Royal Coachman (Wet)

Hook - Wet fly

Thread - White under floss body; Black head

Tail - Brown (ginger)

Body - Peacock herl ends with yellow floss middle

Hackle - Brown

Wing - White duck or goose quill segments

Peterie’s Royal Coachman (Dry)

Hook - Dry fly

Thread - White under floss body; Black head

Tip - Gold tinsel

Tail - Golden pheasant tippets

Body - Peacock herl ends with yellow floss middle

Hackle -Brown

Wing - Mandarin fan wings

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

 

[Trouttramp 0]

Yellow May fly

tail yellow hackle 

body  yellow goose biot

dyed duck flank wing

grizzly dyed yellow hackle  

There are times only a small yellow May fly will do…. 

 

[Bruce Derington 0]

A couple of smaller bugs

Hook: #2 Stinger

Tail: Kip tail and flash, followed by marabou 

Skirt: Deer hair, 2 colors 

Body: 4 colors, stacked

Eyes/ legs: plastic, and sili  

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[MuskyFlyGuy 0]

Bruce,

That is beautiful work!

[MuskyFlyGuy 0]

I tied these for an upcoming trip for smallies in Canada. They are tied on B10s hooks. Sizes are 2, 1, and 1/0. 
 

[flytire 0]

 

Grey Smelt Bucktail 

Hook - Mustad R74 (9672), sizes 4-6-8 

Thread - Black

Body - Flat silver tinsel

Wing - White bucktail tied over the body, with an overwing of gray bucktail

Topping - Four to six strands of peacock herl

Fish Flies: The Encyclopedia of the Fly Tier's Art - Terry Hellekson

[cphubert 0]

Back on the bench I am out of hoppers (wish I could say I lost them to big fish, but I have given them all to others)

Morrish Hopper variant (added hair wing), has become my favorite hopper pattern - great profile & floats a dropper or two, colors to suit tier

Hook- Mustad 9671with braid dropper loop tied in, thread- olive Body 3 sheets 2mm foam glued cut with river road cutters for consistency, wing- deer body hair, orange sighter / pronotum, silicon legs, painted eyes

 

[cphubert 0]

Salmon Fly Dropper Pattern

My other favorite bobber and attractor fly

hook- Mustad 3366 with braid dropper loop tied in, thread orange, body- (premade on pin then tied extended) orange/black 2mm foam glued and cut with river road cutters for consistency, tail- two goose biots, segmented with clear mono thread, underwing sparse deer body hair, wing- wingfilm or poly bag cut to shape, head- deer body hair tied bullet style with orange collar, rubber/silicone legs and painted eyes.