Bruce Norikane 0 Report post Posted August 5, 2015 A little Ant I have been working on. Cinnamon-Ant-BL.JPG Dynamite fly design! I love your inventions. This one combines my two favorite dry fly styles - submerged bodies a la Klinkhamer and foam terrestrials. I've always tied terrestrials on straight hooks, and most other dries on curved hooks to get the emerger sunken body. When I saw LuciV's Ants Time pattern with a submerged abdomen, I tied some immediately. They've been great this summer with one small problem - after 3 or 4 fish, I spent a lot of time resuscitating the fly to keep it floating in the turbulent mountain streams. Although it's a good problem to have, I think your foam pattern is the solution. Inspired by the video for your Cinnamon Toast Ant, I've tied some up and am anxious to show them to the local trout. Thank you for sharing this new pattern! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cheech 0 Report post Posted August 5, 2015 A little Ant I have been working on. Cinnamon-Ant-BL.JPG Dynamite fly design! I love your inventions. This one combines my two favorite dry fly styles - submerged bodies a la Klinkhamer and foam terrestrials. I've always tied terrestrials on straight hooks, and most other dries on curved hooks to get the emerger sunken body. When I saw LuciV's Ants Time pattern with a submerged abdomen, I tied some immediately. They've been great this summer with one small problem - after 3 or 4 fish, I spent a lot of time resuscitating the fly to keep it floating in the turbulent mountain streams. Although it's a good problem to have, I think your foam pattern is the solution. Inspired by the video for your Cinnamon Toast Ant, I've tied some up and am anxious to show them to the local trout. Thank you for sharing this new pattern! Excellent. Glad to hear you like the pattern. When I fish it I try to make sure that I dry it out with Loon Easy Dry and then treat it with Lochsa. That ensures that the pattern floats all day. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnnyquahog 0 Report post Posted August 5, 2015 DeerHairDan - kudos! Very froggy! I'm thinking Chernobyl Froggy! thanks for sharing since I'm partial to the deer hair stuff. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogueFlies 0 Report post Posted August 6, 2015 Soft hackle stone with some body glove dubbing I got from my good friend/ fly tying mentor Michael Spencer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jd1983 0 Report post Posted August 6, 2015 I've been focusing in on articulated streamer patterns the past two weeks. Left side is Mike's Meal Ticket and the right side is Madden's Krakken. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deerhairdan 0 Report post Posted August 6, 2015 A nice stack from last night. Four mini deer hair divers on #2 hooks Four zonker streamers with fish mask heads Two Meatwad craws and two wobd craws Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tctrout 0 Report post Posted August 7, 2015 Looks fine to me, however I would half the amount of hackle (less is more), shorten the body to reach only back to the hook point, Make the spot half as wide and finally minimizing the head quite a lot. But a nice fly.. And when halving and minimizing amounts, please remember, that it only take one turn to hold a material and one turn to secure the holding... So each material can be tied in with two turns.... A good mind set is to think that the tying thread is the most expensive material, and that you have to give away one of your children/pets/love ones to the bait fishers for every mile of thread you use more than needed ;-) :-P /Henrik Thanks for the feedback. I've always had trouble with less is more but stripped the fly and did another try. Here is the end result. This one looks much better; great job, and it's a pattern that really has worked for me over the years (especially during the Grannom hatch). TC Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tctrout 0 Report post Posted August 7, 2015 It's been crayfish time for me... TC Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
notenuftoys 0 Report post Posted August 7, 2015 Tried my hand at the Complex Twist Bugger. Not as hard as it looks, and I can't wait to toss it to some bass. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vicrider 0 Report post Posted August 8, 2015 A nice stack from last night. Four mini deer hair divers on #2 hooks Four zonker streamers with fish mask heads Two Meatwad craws and two wobd craws IMG_20150806_163847.jpg Good grief man...last night??? That's a weeks worth of tying there. Well, maybe not a week but a couple of long days and nights. Beautiful work and can't believe that can be done in an evening on the vise. You do amazing work with the hair especially. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eide 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2015 Ready for a salmon trip up north in Norway! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
retrocarp 0 Report post Posted August 9, 2015 Charlie / bend back style fly I guess it could pass as a shrimp style pattern Tied on a Mustad 34007 size 8 Stainless o' shaughnessy hook. Brass bead chain eyes med gold, Thread white 6/0 danvilles Pearl web from FTD for wing Colours are sharpies UV resin with sally hansons diamond strength for final coat. Hook is bent to achieve shape required for pattern, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deerhairdan 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2015 Playing around with some new material this weekend.... This is 99% something "Pseudo". Its Pseudo Marabou, Pseudo Hackle, and Pseudo Hair...pretty cool looking, but I bet the profile in the water is garbage. I finally got around to tying an articulated version of my "Magic Mike" streamer. People have been requesting that for awhile, so there it is...along with some gnarly green thing. I just ordered some Senyo Fusion Dub to try out and its freakin awesome. I havent even tried regular lazer dub before, but this still rocks. I made the head out of Fusion. Of course the experimental carp fly....just for good measure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deerhairdan 0 Report post Posted August 10, 2015 A nice stack from last night. Four mini deer hair divers on #2 hooks Four zonker streamers with fish mask heads Two Meatwad craws and two wobd craws IMG_20150806_163847.jpg Good grief man...last night??? That's a weeks worth of tying there. Well, maybe not a week but a couple of long days and nights. Beautiful work and can't believe that can be done in an evening on the vise. You do amazing work with the hair especially. I tied the majority of them in one night yes. I did do some prep work the night before....such as the diver tails, and laying out all the materials I needed to beast out the next night. I spent a few hours at the vise that night for sure, the key is to take little breaks so you dont kill yourself. Id tie a few, then leave the room and watch an episode of somthing on netflix, then eat something....etc... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SBPatt 0 Report post Posted August 11, 2015 Karluk Flash Fly Change colors to suit your needs. hook - Mustad 34011 #2 thread - UTC 140 red underbody - non-tox .030 tail/wing - Flashabou silver body - silver braid underwing - bucktail red hackle - schlappen red This one lasted thru about 30 pinks (salmon) caught in the surf last week in Alaska. I broke off the red one I had been using - what was left on the hook made this look like a full-dress Green Highlander Regards, Scott Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
