October Flies From The Vise

[Silver Doctor 0]

[chugbug27 0]

Beautiful work there @SilverDoctor, picture perfect hackle, fan tail, body. 

Hey, if you don't mind my asking, do you leave a little bare thread at the body / tail junction? If not, any tips for getting the peacock herl wrapped so no thread shows at that junction, without messing up your fan tail?

[SBPatt 0]

Bird’s Copper Sedge

Steven Bird’s site is a great source for some cool patterns; this one’s pretty basic, but pretty nonetheless.

hook - BVFT Dry #10
thread - Danville 6/0 brown 
rib - small wire silver
body - tinsel copper 
thorax - dubbing hare’s ear/pink
hackle - partridge

Regards,
Scott

[Mark Knapp 0]

21 hours ago, fshng2 said:

Nice ones Bimini,Mark & Scott. Scott I like the use of a single feather for the wing.

Mark are you using a wing burner for the wings?

 

No, I've been cutting them out by hand with scissors. The idea of a cutter or burner is intriguing though.

[cphubert 0]

4 hours ago, SBPatt said:

Steven Bird’s site is a great source

Scott thanks for the link to Steven's site.

Chris

 

[TSMcDougald 0]

There are about 25 wet flies in Bergman's "Trout" that do not have wings. This is one of them.

Butcher

Hook: Size 12

Tail: Red Goose

Body: Red Floss

Rib: Yellow Danville Flat Waxed Nylon 210 Denier (the original calls for yellow silk)

Hackle: Cream Badger

After tying this, I thought that it would look good with a red wing and possibly better with yellow hackle rather than cream badger.

Butcher Variant

 

There is also an English fly called the Butcher that looks completely different. I will be tying a few of those as well.

[Moshup 0]

Very nice TSMcDougald.

[Moshup 0]

@Silver Doctor.  Really nice.

[TSMcDougald 0]

@Mogup Thanks!

[fshng2 0]

5 hours ago, Mark Knapp said:

No, I've been cutting them out by hand with scissors. The idea of a cutter or burner is intriguing though.

As handy as your are Mark you could probably make your own wing burner from scrap metal you have lying around.

[jamieofthenorth 0]

2 hours ago, TSMcDougald said:

There are about 25 wet flies in Bergman's "Trout" that do not have wings. This is one of them.

Butcher

 

Hook: Size 12

Tail: Red Goose

Body: Red Floss

Rib: Yellow Danville Flat Waxed Nylon 210 Denier (the original calls for yellow silk)

Hackle: Cream Badger

After tying this, I thought that it would look good with a red wing and possibly better with yellow hackle rather than cream badger.

Butcher Variant

 

 

There is also an English fly called the Butcher that looks completely different. I will be tying a few of those as well.

Look great! Really nice work. 

[Moshup 0]

@jaimeofthenorth.  The Rain Fly with jc eyes.  I don’t have alot of experience with freshwater streamers and I can see my saltwater influence on this fly. May not be a good thing. 

[TSMcDougald 0]

@jamieofthenorth Thanks!

[flytire 0]

Gray Macintosh

 

 

[McFlyLures 0]

Some flies I tied for a customer