October Flies From The Vise

[niveker 0]

@Mogup

Great looking fly, love that shaggy body.

[Moshup 0]

2 minutes ago, niveker said:

@Mogup

Great looking fly, love that shaggy body.

Thanks niveker !  The shaggy body is because I didn’t have any orange/yellow yarn which the pattern calls for and I took all my dubbing boxes and pinch a little of this and a little of that and threw it in the blender. It’s like when you’re in New York and you’re making sauce ! Very handy those little coffee grinders and they’re pretty cheap on the net these days.

[TSMcDougald 0]

1 hour ago, Mogup said:

Nice TS 

Thanks! That March Brown is great. 

[Moshup 0]

Thank you.

[Mark Knapp 0]

Done playing with Mayflies for a while. Here's the hatch.

 

[Mark Knapp 0]

Here's something fun, Blacknose Dace with just one animal.

Here's a wolverine head and neck skin with a nice throat patch on it.

I clipped three colors of hair from it,

tied a fairly sparse one from it,

and a couple of shaggier ones.

One thing I noticed about wolverine hair is it doesn't taper as much as other hairs and furs. When you stack it, the ends look chopped.

Then just for fun I tied one with all feathers, my first attempt at marrying wings.

 

[cphubert 0]

7 hours ago, Mark Knapp said:

Blacknose Dace with just one animal.

Mark never tied with wolverine is it slippery like bear & squirrel? does not look like it flares under tension. And I like the feather wing, may have to tie a few of those.  

[Rocco 0]

Mark Knapp,

Great flies!   Take the color away and leave just a black and white picture and you could have a plate from Bill Blades' neat book "Fishing Flies and Fly Tying" from 1951!

Congrats

[niveker 0]

8 hours ago, Mark Knapp said:

first attempt at marrying 

Looks nice & crisp, Mark. 

[chugbug27 0]

👍👍👍

[troutmaster08 0]

Here's my first attempt at a damselfly

 

Edited October 18, 2020 by troutmaster08
Submitted blurry picture

[niveker 0]

@TSMcDougald, 

nice Butchers.  Your comment started me on a search and then attempt at Bergman's Butcher: 

Hook: #8, 2XL
Thread: White for body
Body: Red Floss
Rib: Yellow floss
Tail: Red duck quill
Thread: Black for head
Hackle: Badger saddle hackle, dyed yellow (I think the original calls for a stiff silver badger, of which I have none.  

Lesson learned: embroidery floss is a poor substitute when needing a smooth body.  

[RickZieger 0]

Ants from shelf liner material

DSCN3712 (2) by Richard Zieger, on Flickr

[jamieofthenorth 0]

@Mark KnappSolid work! 

[Bimini15 0]

Cray cray. There  is a rattle and bead chain eyes in there so that it rides point up.