December Flies from the vice

[Alpine4x4 0]

Tried my hand at my first true dry fly last night. I tied up 8, 2 each size 12, 14 in brown and 2 each size 12, 14 in olive. This is my first one, the elk hair is a little long, sparse, and too close to the eye. I've since corrected that in my next few flies.

[Flat Rock native 0]

That will catch you plenty of fish, next try a little CDC, and you will have one of the most effective trout flies ever, when they are looking up.

[ColindaFlyguy 0]

i have seen thous 2 boys before somewhere hmmmmmmmmmm.... you guys ever been to the fly expo in Indiana

[FlyFishin'Jam 0]

Charmed, whoops wing a bit long heh. These things work wonderfully tied even more low water and smaller.

 

[Istripbuggers 0]

A few buggers on umpqua jig hooks

 

 

[cheech 0]

Tried my hand at my first true dry fly last night. I tied up 8, 2 each size 12, 14 in brown and 2 each size 12, 14 in olive. This is my first one, the elk hair is a little long, sparse, and too close to the eye. I've since corrected that in my next few flies.

Looks good. Practice makes perfect with hair.

 

It looks like your vise is upside down too. The spring that is on the bottom in that picture is used as a material clip to hold longer materials out of the way when you are wrapping other stuff.

 

Cheech

[Alpine4x4 0]

Tried my hand at my first true dry fly last night. I tied up 8, 2 each size 12, 14 in brown and 2 each size 12, 14 in olive. This is my first one, the elk hair is a little long, sparse, and too close to the eye. I've since corrected that in my next few flies.

Looks good. Practice makes perfect with hair.

 

It looks like your vise is upside down too. The spring that is on the bottom in that picture is used as a material clip to hold longer materials out of the way when you are wrapping other stuff.

 

Cheech

 

Thank you! I think I'll start using my hair stacker now to get a fuller wing. Still need some dubbing practice as well, too much material on some of them. The hackle is from a big lot of cheap small patches I bought off ebay, it's actually some really good stuff for size 10-16 flies.

 

Well I'll be damned. I was wondering why that was there, it seemed to stick out more than it should. Appreciate the insight, that will make life much easier! That is a Regal Medallion vise.

[sandflyx 0]

Grubs for steel head in Ny.

 

 

 

 

[Christopher K 0]

Grubs for steel head in Ny.

Very interesting flies, last one reminds me of an ackroyd

[AK Assassin 0]

With my tying desk in the garage, and a cold spell that rolled in this past week, it was hard to sit and tie. Here is a few I did manage.

[mikechell 0]

Pretty flies, AK. I like that first picture with the feather tail.

[utyer 0]

Here are a couple of spider patterns I tied up this week. The first one uses a reverse bullet head deer hair body, and the second has a chenille body. Both patterns have flared deer hair hackle.

 

I used 3 XL hooks to make the fly float with the hackle spread fully on the water.

[mikechell 0]

Looks like you'll be catching some Florida Sunfish soon, Utyer.

[Piker20 0]

Inspired by the purple and gold fly Old Hat posted

[eide 0]

Inspired by the purple and gold fly Old Hat posted

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that first purple looks good!