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Norm,

Love your flies and posts. Could you please show a grouse feather for the Breadcrust as it's ready to tie in.

 

Thanks, Bob H

Here you go

 

http://www.charliesflyboxinc.com/flybox/details.cfm?parentID=86

 

Charlie says to soak the grouse tail for about an hour. That pith is real pith in the butt to strip out. How long did you soak your feathers?

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Geash, you guys. You make me want to just blow off the rest of the day and lock myself in the tying room. That would make my wife very angry, she's the production warden around here.

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Densons Skara Monger Crippler (variation)

 

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hook Dai Riki 075 #8

thread - Danville 6/0 wine

rib - small wire gold

abdomen - tinsel opal

rear hackle - dyed orange (1Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange, 1 cup water)

thorax - dubbing hot orange/peach

front hackle - grizzly hen dyed orange (see above)

1st shoulder hackle - hot orange

2nd shoulder hackle - red

front hackle - grizzly hen dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry, 1 cup water)

 

 

Regards,

Scott

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Almvig

 

Hook - Salmon/steelhead

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Flat embossed silver tinsel

Body - Hot orange yarn

Wing - Orange calftail over polar bear

UV Resin

 

Reference - Steelhead Fly Fishing & Flies - Trey Combs

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Murray Wet Fly

 

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Named for William Murray, who helped popularize the Adirondack Mountain region in the 1800's. Instead of matching segments for the wing, I stacked/folded; the stuff seems to have enough adhesion to maintain it's shape.

 

 

hook Dai Riki 075 #8

thread - Danville 6/0 black

tail - duck quill red

rib - small wire silver

body - floss black

body hackle - dyed orange (1Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange, 1 cup water)

shoulder hackle - hen dyed orange (see above)

wing - pheasant tail secondary

 

 

Regards,

Scott

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Densons Skara Monger Crippler (variation)

 

46209495872_eecaa6408e_c.jpg

 

46209495592_5011385feb_c.jpg

 

32388223118_734efaa120_c.jpg

 

 

hook Dai Riki 075 #8

thread - Danville 6/0 wine

rib - small wire gold

abdomen - tinsel opal

rear hackle - dyed orange (1Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange, 1 cup water)

thorax - dubbing hot orange/peach

front hackle - grizzly hen dyed orange (see above)

1st shoulder hackle - hot orange

2nd shoulder hackle - red

front hackle - grizzly hen dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry, 1 cup water)

 

 

Regards,

Scott

 

Very cool Scott, would you use Koolaid for fishing flies as well as display flies? I had bought a bunch of Koolaid for dyeing feathers but was concerned with color-fastness in water.

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I prefer to collar my wooly buggers rather than wrap hackle up the body. Maybe it's lazy, I'm not sure. But I think done right it pushes more water and using the right feathers provides enticing movement. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it. ;-)

 

Anyway, I picked up some grizzly collaring hackle from Nature's Spirit and created a Collared Seal. A simple bugger with simi seal body and a collar of grizzly hackle.

 

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Very cool Scott, would you use Koolaid for fishing flies as well as display flies? I had bought a bunch of Koolaid for dyeing feathers but was concerned with color-fastness in water.

Mark,

 

I fish all the flies I tie, these included. Haven’t had any problems with color fade in fresh water; can’t say how well it works in salt. Here’s a link to a Koolaid dyeing SBS I did a while back

 

https://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/106691/

 

Hope it helps.

 

Regards,

Scott

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Scarlet Ibis [bucktail]

 

Hook - Salmon/steelhead style

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Red floss

Hackle - Red

Wing - Red bucktail

 

Reference - Steelhead Fly Fishing & Flies - Trey Combs

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Very cool Scott, would you use Koolaid for fishing flies as well as display flies? I had bought a bunch of Koolaid for dyeing feathers but was concerned with color-fastness in water.

Mark,

 

I fish all the flies I tie, these included. Haven’t had any problems with color fade in fresh water; can’t say how well it works in salt. Here’s a link to a Koolaid dyeing SBS I did a while back

 

https://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/forum/index.php?threads/106691/

 

Hope it helps.

 

Regards,

Scott

 

 

Thanks a bunch, it does help.

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