July Flies from the vise

[eide 0]

Finished June with a catskill and starting July with another one.

[vicrider 0]

Eide, I love and follow your work but just having been in some pattern style specific swaps on the board I will make one comment. Your fly is as any modern tier would tie and beautiful work as always but if you were to talk classic you'd take the width of your front tie, move the whole fly back that much on the hook and leave that same amount of hook bare in front of your head to tie a turle knot. You have enough flat of hook to move the fly back that far and not change other proportions at all.

 

I really stick my neck commenting on your flies as I only wish I could tie like you do but this is something to think of when we talk classic flies.

 

Nick

[eide 0]

Eide, I love and follow your work but just having been in some pattern style specific swaps on the board I will make one comment. Your fly is as any modern tier would tie and beautiful work as always but if you were to talk classic you'd take the width of your front tie, move the whole fly back that much on the hook and leave that same amount of hook bare in front of your head to tie a turle knot. You have enough flat of hook to move the fly back that far and not change other proportions at all.

 

I really stick my neck commenting on your flies as I only wish I could tie like you do but this is something to think of when we talk classic flies.

 

Nick

Yes, you are correct: in the proper way of tying catskill, there should be that space behind the eye to get the turtle knot in place. This is for my fishing box, and I don't tie turtle knot I'm working on some more correct classic patterns that I'll come back to later on.

 

Btw: there is a catskill weekend in Sweden later this year with a great line up if you get the chance to be there: http://www.markushoffman.com/?page=wt5

[cj_dubya 0]

Gunnar Brammer's Martian

 

[mikechell 0]

Regardless of what Vic says, that's a perfect first fly of July, Eide.

 

Hurrumph !!! Who ties turle knot any more ???

 

 

Joking, of course. With you, Vic ... not about your fly, Eide.

 

About the turle knot, not about YOU Vic ...

 

Never mind ...

[TheCream 0]

Complex Twist Bow River Superbugger

 

[flytire 0]

sand eel

 

[Kudu 0]

Cream

How do those buggers and the bow River buggers swim? Does the deer hair impart buoyancy that makes the fly swim rather than jig?

Thanks

[TheCream 0]

Cream

How do those buggers and the bow River buggers swim? Does the deer hair impart buoyancy that makes the fly swim rather than jig?

Thanks

 

They all jig more or less, but how much depends on how heavily you weight them. These larger ones I weight a little heavier, the smaller size 6's I use for small stream fishing I weight lighter for a slow fall.

[Dave G. 0]

sand eel

 

flytire, that's a sand eel I have never seen tied around these parts. Different, interesting.

[planettrout 0]

 

FOLDED FOAM PMD C/E - Matthews/Variant - Daiichi 1110, #16 - #18...

 

 

DOWNEY'S WONDER NYMPHs - PMD - #16's...

 

 

 

PT/TB

[caloosa bug 0]

Here's my version of a wiggle bug with gills.

[Saltybum 0]

I'm diggin' that fly cj_dubya. Looks like a killer for saltwater flats.

[Steeldrifter 0]

 

Tying up some pike flies this evening for the upcoming trip.

[eide 0]

Time to fill up with Bombers for me and some friends