August flies from the bench

[eide 0]

Some more of this pattern on a Daiichi 2546 #8, this time with bead-chain eyes.

[mikechell 0]

Kimo ... where in Hawaii are you? I stopped by the "Nervous Fly Tiers" shop today. Nice little place.

[Kimo 0]

Kimo ... where in Hawaii are you? I stopped by the "Nervous Fly Tiers" shop today. Nice little place.

Sorry Mike,

I'm one of the "lost" Hawaiians living in Colorado, though my family and I still consider Hawaii home.

I am from the center of Honolulu in a neighborhood called Palama Settlement.

 

Kimo

[Chase Creek 0]

Wooly-Something, size 12

Red thread head means it's weighted.

[flyDology 0]

A guide fly is one of those patterns that can imitate a whole lot of anything, is easy to tie and inexpensive. When thinking about flies that I want in my fly box, I want a fly that will simply catch fish wherever I cast it and not drive mebonkers at the vice. If you think about it, Randall Kauffman's Simulator is just one of those golden patterns. It can imitate a Golden Stone…Check! Cased Caddis…check! Hellgrammite…check! you name it, it looks like something that trout and steelhead would eat. I use it all year long in waters that harbor salmon flies and stoneflies. be sure to tie them in a range of sizes, even small version are highly effective.

 

More info here....http://www.facebook.com/JPNewburyAnglingArts

[planettrout 0]

 

DIPHETOR hageni – family Baetidae – TMC 100SP BL, #18 -#20

 

 

PT/TB

[tctrout 0]

Appropriate for this time of year, I am tying a CDC Flying Ant in my newest YouTube fly tying tutorial. This pattern, featured in Henry Ramsay's "Matching Major Eastern Hatches," has some great materials, including a cdc wing and Krystal Flash legs.

 

TC

 

[Piker20 0]

Small tube fly. 3mm Copper front/plastic rear on a 1.8mm liner.

[flytire 0]

 

 

 

 

[ScottK 0]

Do tell... How'd you attach the bead like that?

 

Edit: just so I don't look like a complete moron, I asked this question before those last 2 pics were added...

[flytire 0]

fringe bead. the hole is offset

 

[ScottK 0]

Nice. Thanks!

[Piker20 0]

Not come across those before Norman, love the nest egg ones.

[mikechell 0]

Those are pretty cool, flytire. I'll have to look for some fringe beads next time I am at Jo-Ann's.

[vicrider 0]

Chase creek, where do find hackle tapered like that? I that on untrimmed hackle or some different sized ones. Don't know how important it would be to the fish but sure makes a pretty tie with the tapering hackle.