June Flies From the Vise

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Patriot

Category - Steelhead

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H

Thread - Black

Tail - Red hackle fibers

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Body - Yellow uni stretch

Hackle - Blue

Wing - White calf tail

 

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Damsel Fly-Adult, Olive/Brown

Please note the position of the wings well as the composition of the wings.

The wings are made of iridescent film. You need to tone down the material
a bit with a grey marker because they will scare off the fish. As opposed to
the Dragonfly nymph, the wings on a damsel are are folded back over the
abdomen when it is at rest. The wings of a dragonfly are splayed out.

The abdomen is made of retired fly line. I got the idea from my compadre B. Schmidt.
It has been embossed with the segmentation with a heated pair of  modified hemostats.
You can still see the dimples because it is SA’s Sharkskin.

The blue one is also floating fly line.





Kimo

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Spruce Fly 

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5 hours ago, Kimo said:

Damsel Fly-Adult, Olive/Brown

Please note the position of the wings well as the composition of the wings.

The wings are made of iridescent film. You need to tone down the material
a bit with a grey marker because they will scare off the fish. As opposed to
the Dragonfly nymph, the wings on a damsel are are folded back over the
abdomen when it is at rest. The wings of a dragonfly are splayed out.

The abdomen is made of retired fly line. I got the idea from my compadre B. Schmidt.
It has been embossed with the segmentation with a heated pair of  modified hemostats.
You can still see the dimples because it is SA’s Sharkskin.

The blue one is also floating fly line.



Kimo

Hey Now! We all know that Kimo only posts pictures of Micro Game Changers. So who are you?😄

 

Nice Damsel flies Kimo!

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Nice Landon. Is that the Spruce Fly ?

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6 hours ago, Kimo said:

Pretty awesome Kimo !

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   Rat Faced Mcdougal

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Some sunfish imitations.  Someone sent me a picture of a panfish in their area and asked if I could tie up some flies to mimic the local forage for their large bass.  They wanted a rather small fly though...  

 

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5 hours ago, TSMcDougald said:

Hey Now! We all know that Kimo only posts pictures of Micro Game Changers. So who are you?😄

 

Nice Damsel flies Kimo!

Very few of the flies that I tie are posted on the site.
What you are looking at is one of my Index boxes.
I always tie at least 3 and keep one for my records.
If they make thru the tests, either my own or my friends,
I'll then tie several of them to fish.
Some turn out to be complete dogs, others I will make refinements to
and keep tying them.
For me , fly tying is a process.



Kimo

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52 minutes ago, Kimo said:

Very few of the flies that I tie are posted on the site.
What you are looking at is one of my Index boxes.
I always tie at least 3 and keep one for my records.
If they make thru the tests, either my own or my friends,
I'll then tie several of them to fish.
Some turn out to be complete dogs, others I will make refinements to
and keep tying them.
For me , fly tying is a process.



Kimo

And it sounds like you have a fascinating process! Thanks for that look at one of your index boxes.

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[James 0]

Chugbug those are looking much better the body's are nice uniform 

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@James thanks