June Flies from the vise

[retrocarp 0]

 

[retrocarp 0]

Just a few bugger variants tied on a size #8 hook

[retrocarp 0]

Beadchain clousers and Retros Black and purple harlot

[TheCream 0]

I discovered some balsa in a massive cleanup of my tying room over the weekend. I hadn't done a wooden popper in a long, long time, so I decided to give it a go.

 

 

 

 

[Jokey 0]

Nice Cream.....no rust there.

 

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[retrocarp 0]

Nice work

[TheCream 0]

New bluegill bug to test. I didn't get a couple of the legs furled quite as tight as I'd like but I doubt the fish will care. It's lightly weighted with .015 non-lead wire and small bead chain (powder painted hot orange) to keel it point up.

 

 

I won't bog down a fly tying thread with fish photos, but I finally got to test this pattern yesterday. It flat out killed them. The pattern did what I hoped: good sink rate, fish hammered it, it somewhat "weeded out" some of the really small fish (caught mostly thick fish on it), and was extremely durable. I fished the same fly for 90 minutes before breaking it off as I was about to leave.

 

[mikechell 0]

Those balsa poppers are cute, Cream.

I must have missed the bluegill bug post ... seeing it now, I like those bugs. That is a pretty fish pictured, too.

[flytire 0]

back to the basics

 

thread midges

 

[Dave G. 0]

This is my humble entry.

 

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What was your source of foam for this ? I saw those pool noodles at Walmart yesterday for $2 and some change and thought wow a lifetime supply of chartreuse foam for poppers/hoppers etc. But didn't know if it was too open celled.

[deerhairdan 0]

all day breakfast

 

[TheCream 0]

Might be something that will work, might just be another case of a significant Dumb*** Attack.

 

 

[Adam Saarinen 0]

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[mikechell 0]

Grass skirt popper, Cream?

I like it, but I'd never use it. Paint job is too pretty.