flytire 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 man i thought i was a material hoarder Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjm 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 My last two or three sessions have been mostly sorting and arranging materials, but man I don't got much compared to Sandflyx. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Philly 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 Sandflyx, just curious, do you blend flash into the congo hair? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tidewaterfly 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 Most of what I've been tying lately has been hair jigs. Primarily combinations of rabbit strips & fox. A few tied with bucktail. Also have been tying simple bucktail teaser flies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Knapp 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 blending and working with congo hair Man, that's a lot of stuff. That aught to keep you busy most of the winter. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mark Knapp 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 man i thought i was a material hoarder This brings me to the question, has anyone tried Sasquatch hair. Seems like it would be easier to get during molting season. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
utyer 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 Down here in Florida, all the Sasquatches are hairless. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted December 5, 2018 Down here in Florida, all the Sasquatches are hairless. Makes sense. Warmer climate. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 Down here in Florida, all the Sasquatches are hairless. AND they wear bathing suits and hang around the beaches. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flytire 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 summer squatch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sandflyx 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 philly yes I do blend in flash. Norm my whole house is like this lots of tying stuff. lol. I have wooly mammoth hair in dubbing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sandan 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 summer squatch Thanks, I just went blind Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Poopdeck 0 Report post Posted December 5, 2018 I'm working on my third million dollars because the first two didn't work out so well. Not much going on at the bench since I also only assemble flies on an as needed basis and I hardley lost a thing last year due to all the freaking rain, I.e. Flooding, and canceled trips. I have ordered a bunch of tied belly hair so I can try packing deer hair with my new poopdeck packer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mikechell 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2018 philly yes I do blend in flash. Norm my whole house is like this lots of tying stuff. lol. I have wooly mammoth hair in dubbing I do believe some of the members, here, have Archaeopteryx feathers in their collections ... that they collected themselves. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Philly 0 Report post Posted December 6, 2018 Mark you asked some pictures of the nymphs I've been tying. Nothing fancy. All are tied on an Orvis Big Eye Dry Fly hook, size 12. Thorax is peacock herl wrapped around the ribbing wire, soft hackle is starling. This one has a parrot feather body. Tail is pheasant This one is tied from a white tip turkey tail feather dyed fluorescent green. Tail is pheasant These two I named the Austin Chicken Nymph since I tied them from the wing feathers of a couple of chickens my niece and her husband raised for eggs and eventually dinner. Body and tail are chicken. I tried to find the breed and discovered they're called Easter Eggers because they lay various shades of green, blue, pink eggs The next four are PT nymphs in no particular order, Natural, dyed brown, olive and black. The last two are sort of stone fly nymphs to imitate the yellow and lime sallies that are in the streams around where they'll be living in Vermont. Yellow is goose biots, the green is turkey dyed fluorescent green. I know the Austin Chicken nymphs work. Greg's(my niece's husband) father caught a couple of nice New Zealand brown trout. I tied 3 of each in size 12, and plan to do the same in size 14. Then I'll start on the mini-mop flies. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites