nrthcsteel 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Hey All! Well with steelhead season in full swing(so to speak) Havent had much time to really sit down and tie much, just enough to keep the box stocked up. Been having a good winter so far. A couple of grabs, a couple of LDRs and a couple of nice fish landed. All in all pretty darn good year so far. Been swimming a lot of new creations and for the most part have been happy, although a few tweeks have been made here and there and a couple of "well thats not to good(s) Live and learn live and learn.... Been lurking around here once in a while and its great to see alot of new flies being posted by some familiar names and some news ones. Everyones been putting up some great stuff and it would take me the rest of the night to reply to all so heres one for everyone.. GREAT FLIES !!!!!!! Well the past ten days or so have been a virtual downpoor so the rivers are quite out of shape for a bit so looking at all the flies lately got me inspired to sit down and have a little fun. Peatymans two great videos were the inspiration for fly 1. Great stuff Davie! anyone who hasnt checked em out should do so IMMEDIATLY!!!!! Love the gap in the rib for the hackle@!!! Gonna put that one to good use. Although I see in the pic I missed one or two gaps, DOH!! where are those darn glasses...... The other two just an akroyd and another with some different colors thrown in. Well thanks for the inspiration everyone and hope you enjoy and as always hope youve been getting out on the water@! Kevin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pallagust 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 really great looking flies... All these spey flies are starting to inspire me to start tying some for salmon. We dont have steelhead here in Iceland, only char, seatrout and salmon but I think spey flies would be interesting at the end of the season. Great work Kevin... Love the akroyd and the variation... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
E. Oregon Midge 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 :bugeyes: that trio is sick :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: sick as in awesome if you have time and don't mind could you post the patterns to them :cheers: Rocky Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
willowhead 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Hey Kevin, so you noticed that too, in Davies video. The little itsy bitsy gap between the ribbing for the hackle...........i thought that was so cool as well. VERY hip little trick. Good eye Bro. Your flies are always beautiful, LOVE 'em like always. And added respect for the fact that you de-barb your hooks. Btw, is that silk chennille for the body of that first fly? mark..... :smoke: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nrthcsteel 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Thanks Guys. Hey Rocky the akroyd is a pretty popular pattern. These two pretty much follow the same recipe,with a couple little tweaks. I used yellow schlappen stripped on one side for the one and if I remember correctly I used black schlappen on the front half of the other Been in kind of a schlappen mood lately... Oh yeah and I was dying to use a pair of florican feathers I scored so thats the wing, GREAT stuff!! Ties in like a dream...and really digging the looks for sure. You should be able to find the original pattern somewhere using a search, maybe even in the fly archives, if you cant let me know and Ill get it to you. Whats up Mark? See your hitting the shows hard as usual. Good for you. One of these days I will make some time to get to more of those. I guess the Oregon one is coming up soon eh? Youll have to give me a full report on what I missed out on, yeah feel free to rub it in. You know on that chenille I have NO idea what it is. It was in a mixed box of stuff/CR_P that I bought for one specific thing but the rest of the stuff was garbage. Im not a big chenille fan but this stuff is really small diameter and a great shade of purple and when I saw it I was like HMMM> I kinda like that. Its on a card that isnt labeled so I really cant say what it is??? Its kinda twisted up so I think I might hang it in the bathroom see if it steams itself straight after a couple of hot showers. Take care Mark and you and your wife travel safely. Have fun at the shows. Kevin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bobfly 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Great Trio!! :headbang: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frank G. Swarner III 0 Report post Posted February 6, 2008 Good to see some more flies from you Kevin.....looking good man!! Get any steel on top? Frank Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Micke 0 Report post Posted February 10, 2008 I like them all Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
