November Flies from the Vise

[deerhairdan 0]

Practicing color blending.

 

[eide 0]

Hook: Hends BL454 #12 - http://flyhooks.org/hends/bl-454
Thread: Sheer 14/0 White
Tail: Whiting hackle, brown
Body: Hends Superfine #38
Hackle: Whiting Brown/Grizzly Bronze

[sandflyx 0]

" DRACO WURM" -- Dragon worm

 

 

[vb1971 0]

Hi everyone,

 

We are heading into a serious drought (Melbourne, Australia) and the small streams I visit are fishing as though it is mid summer! With water levels falling and eater temperatures increasing rapidly, the Klinkhammer under these conditions appears to be the fly of choice. It is landing me trout at first light, during a hatch (or in the absence of a hatch) and when there and aren't any rises. The key is size. If I fish a #14 may not get any interest. Change to an #18 and it's all systems go! It's amazing thing this fly fishing and love the fact that you always keep learning.

 

Three cheers to the Klinkhammer. Parachute Adams comes a second close

 

 

[RogueFlies 0]

Tied my first slumpbuster, cant wait to try it out soon, school work permitting. I also just tried some streamer idea out, got the idea from a video of tying in a cone head and some wire and securing them in the middle of the shank and then working around. Also, I need to work on uv heads.

[TheCream 0]

Practicing color blending.

 

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Very nice. Did you blend in your hand or in a stacker? I drop half of what I'm trying to blend if I mix it in my hand like Cohen does, but I can get it mixed pretty well in my stacker with a bodkin.

[mikechell 0]

I noticed, in his video, that Cohen drops a good amount, too. He just doesn't care. I am too cheap to throw away deer hair like that. I do it in the stacker too.

[RogueFlies 0]

I noticed, in his video, that Cohen drops a good amount, too. He just doesn't care. I am too cheap to throw away deer hair like that. I do it in the stacker too.

Probably a perk of having some sort of sponsorship deal is my guess

[Dave G. 0]

Hi everyone,

 

We are heading into a serious drought (Melbourne, Australia) and the small streams I visit are fishing as though it is mid summer! With water levels falling and eater temperatures increasing rapidly, the Klinkhammer under these conditions appears to be the fly of choice. It is landing me trout at first light, during a hatch (or in the absence of a hatch) and when there and aren't any rises. The key is size. If I fish a #14 may not get any interest. Change to an #18 and it's all systems go! It's amazing thing this fly fishing and love the fact that you always keep learning.

 

Three cheers to the Klinkhammer. Parachute Adams comes a second close

 

 

Nice flies ! We don't have any hatches around here that look like that particular Klinkhammer though so guess I won't be tying any.

[mikechell 0]

Which one, Dave? You don't have any Klinkhammer hatches or Parachute Adams hatches?

[deerhairdan 0]

I hold all of the colors of deer hair in one hand together, and take the other hand and take a pinch off the top and bottom simultaneously several times like you are shuffling a deck of cards (the lazy way to shuffle cards) I do that once, then stack it. Do it again after the stack, but add back all the deer hair that fell out the first time. Stack it again and you are good to go. Just be sure to clean your desk before doing other colors or you will accidentally pick up previous color haha. I dont waste hardly any doing it this way.....it really helps alot to get the longest, straightest hairs you can for blending....any pronounced curve to the deer hair will screw up the blending cause they wont stay aligned with the others. If any of that makes any sense at all.....

[Dave G. 0]

Which one, Dave? You don't have any Klinkhammer hatches or Parachute Adams hatches?

Fixed it, Mike ! Actually even the Adams I haven't tied for around home so much in a long time but is a pattern I might use in Maine on occasion at least. I used to tie small Adams for midge hatches locally but have since changed over to either a Griffiths Gnat or Chironamid emergers. Both being more effective.

[mikechell 0]

You didn't need to fix it, now my post looks weird. It's a good thing I don't mind looking weird. Wife says it's one of the many things she loves about me.

[Dave G. 0]

You didn't need to fix it, now my post looks weird. It's a good thing I don't mind looking weird. Wife says it's one of the many things she loves about me.

Yeah, try walking around like Frankenstein with one leg shaved and the other not lol ( knee surgery a week ago today) !

[mikechell 0]

Hey ... You've out weirded me. You are the champion and I ain't even trying to beat that record.

How's the knee doing? Good I hope.