October Flies From The Vise

[niveker 0]

Weeding out the buggers, decided to do a few with glass beads for bodies on the recycled hooks.  Might be another name for these, not sure.  

Glass Bead Body Bugger

Hook - #8 streamer

Body - glass beads, 11/0, black or clear, 4-6 depending on shank length

Thread - black 8/0

Tail - black marabou and 1 strand per side FTD H2O Twist Pearl Tan 

Hackle - black saddle hackle in various lengths

 

 

[johnnyquahog 0]

Working on a batch of streamers for nephew to be trolled in remote Maine ponds for brook trout.  This has been the most successful pattern to date and he and his guests go through quite a few.

Wood Special (Joe Sterling)

hook: #8 3xl or 4xl streamer

tail: gp tippets

ribbing: either flat or round silver tinsel

body: orange, pumpkin or flour orange chenille or wool yarn

wing: single lemon wood duck flank feather tied on top flat wing style

collar: grizzly hen

eyes: optional jc nails (I leave them off)

[niveker 0]

31 minutes ago, johnnyquahog said:

Wood Special

nice

[Bruce Derington 0]

19 hours ago, Heff2 said:

Is that a hook 0? Haven’t seen one of those yet lol.  Been loving the One Feather One Thread series on Reddit. 

@Gene L and @RickZieger those flies look like fish catchers for sure

 

 

Gotta get me some of these, do they tie in as an assembly or do you go one by one? 

They as a 6 leg assembly, smaller flies I cut off back 2

[wildwilly 0]

Grey Booby Minkie.  Works on both a floating line and a sinking line.

 

[Heff2 0]

@niveker I like those beaded buggers.  
 

3 hours ago, johnnyquahog said:

Wood Special (Joe Sterling)

That is a fine array of flies.  Best of luck with them.  
 

1 hour ago, Bruce Derington said:

They as a 6 leg assembly, smaller flies I cut off back 2

Thx Bruce 

1 hour ago, wildwilly said:

Grey Booby Minkie.

That’s a fun one.  I think it would be fun to strip on a sinking line.  

[Gene L 0]

You guys are good!  I love seeing other peoples' work.

[RickZieger 0]

size 16 hooks. gold thread rib over about 70% body, alpaca roving in two colors.

This has worked for panfish with a very slow retrieve. 

[flytire 0]

Deer Fly

Pop’s Recipe

Hook - Wet/dry fly
Thread - Red
Tail - Black⁠
Body - Gold Tip, Green Floss
Wings - White⁠
Hackle - White⁠

Optional⁠
Wings - Grizzly hackle tips⁠
Hackle - Grizzly or Brown⁠

Another offering for popsflies - The Deer Fly but tied with the optional grizzly hackle wing tips and grizzly hackle.

Pop, aka Harry K. Cameron (1894-1973), kept a little black notebook and a stack of index cards with 99 different hand-drawn fly patterns and their recipes. He tied these flies and fished them on the Arkansas and South Platte Rivers west of Colorado Springs, CO.⁠

Reference - Instagram

[niveker 0]

16 hours ago, Heff2 said:

beaded buggers

Thanks Heff2.

Tied two a few weeks ago, had a little success on a new WW river but lost them pretty quickly.  So I tied up these to try again.  Little rough around the edges, kinda funky winding the hackle and thread through the beads.  I like the way they cast and how they look in the water.   

[niveker 0]

35 minutes ago, flytire said:

Deer Fly

Sleek.  

Interesting little project the family has going: https://www.popsflies.com/

 

[Heff2 0]

3 minutes ago, niveker said:

Interesting little project the family

That is very interesting.