October Flies From The Vise

[JDM1 0]

Grizzly Baitfish Jig

Hook: Size 10 Jig Hook

Tail: 2 Medium sized Grizzly hackle feathers 

Body: Pheasant Marabou (mix of light and dark)

Collar: Large grizzly soft hackle 

Bead & Hotspot: 4mm copper tungsten bead and red floss for hotspot

Super simple fly that I'll probably tie with eyes and a resin head at some point. This version fished really well last weekend and I had a blast tossing it toward structure/undercut banks with my 3 weight and nailing aggressive trout. Criticism/suggestions for improvement are welcomed.

- Jason

[Moshup 0]

@JDM1 nice ! 👍 In Montauk they would call that a fancy “Bucktail.”

[jamieofthenorth 0]

Hook: Size 24 Firehole 317

Body: 8/0 black thread

Ribbing: Silver wire

Head: Glass bead

Criticism/tips welcome! 

[jamieofthenorth 0]

5 hours ago, Sandan said:

The streamers got me going

TMC 5212 size 6

Dark brown Uni 6/0

Eyes: Medium painted lead dumbell 

Tail and back:Olive/black micro pulsar strip

Body: fiery brown STS trilobal dubbing

Legs: black and gold rubber something or other, Wapsi Sili legs maybe

Gills: red ice dub

Head: olive laser dub and barf brown bruiser blend Jr. 

Picture order: wet, damp, dry

I bet the movement on that in water is awesome. Nice fly!

[Sandan 0]

33 minutes ago, jamieofthenorth said:

I bet the movement on that in water is awesome. Nice fly!

Thanks, I'll be  giving it some water time this weekend. I like yours too, the tiny stuff works so well.

[niveker 0]

Tellico Nymph.

Hook: 14, 3xl

Weight: lead wire

Thread: UTC 70, brown

Tail: hen pheasant

Rib: peacock herl re-inforced with tag end of thread

Shellback: pheasant tail fibers coated with SHHAN

Body: yellow floss

Beard: hen pheasant .  

 

 

[Moshup 0]

Dolly Varden.  Rube Cross originator

Hook....  Mustad 94840.       Sz 12

Thread...Pearsall’s gossamer silk.  White

Tail.    ... Ginger CDL.  Substituted for brown 

Body.  ... White silk

Ribbing .. Fine gold wire

Wings. .. English woodcock primary

Hackle ...Collins Brown

*** I made a mistake of putting head cement on the Pearsall white silk Head and as you can see kind of ruined the nice head.

[McFlyLures 0]

Some flies 

[TSMcDougald 0]

54 minutes ago, McFlyLures said:

Some flies 

 

Great flies!

@Mogup excellent tie!

@niveker nice!

[Mark Knapp 0]

A few people asked me to make an SBS on how I make segmented Mayfly bodies. You can see it if you like in SBS sub-forum.

The first one is for the easiest method, the floss method. Others will follow using hackle and other things to make the bars.

 

[niveker 0]

10 hours ago, McFlyLures said:

Some flies 

Very nice, McFly.  Does the first one have a name?

[McFlyLures 0]

2 hours ago, niveker said:

Very nice, McFly.  Does the first one have a name?

It is a snowshoe rabbit with cdc caddis.  So I do custom ties for people.  Many times they send me pictures and ask me to copy.  That one took me like 9 tries to figure out how to do it correctly.  Haha!   But they didn’t give me a name for the fly.  I know I’ve seen it, or at least similar places so I’m sure it has a name.
 

 As for the last one (extended body mayfly), I left the abdomen long like that because that’s what the picture he had showed.  So I just copied.  It is way too long in my opinion but, it’s what he wanted.  I really like marks way here, I’m gonna be going and checking out his how to on that!  Very cool!  

[Lug Nuts 0]

Just a crackleback.  Might have mentioned, but I prefer bushy hackle.

edit to add: all comments and criticism welcomed!

[cphubert 0]

Hellgrammite 

Mustad 9572 with black dumbbell eyes. underbody- olive chenille & synthetic hackle legs.  body- Chuck Kraft tail with black sued collar.

 

[niveker 0]

5 hours ago, McFlyLures said:

I know I’ve seen it, or at least similar

Same here, looks similar to something I know I've seen before, but I can't place it. 

Did a quick search and only Egan's Corn Fed Caddis or an egg laying Caddis by Matt Grobert look close.  I think its Egan's fly that I remembered, but yours looks better.