November Flies From the Vise

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GD’s Pink Panther

Tail: Coq de Leon; Body: Black mini sparkle braid (substituted for black dubbing, though the book omits the type); Rib: Copper wire; Hot spot: Hot Pink Ice Dub; Bead: Firehole

This particular example is weighted with lead wire.  I’ve had the most success with it down deep.

[SBPatt 0]

Irish Lough Stimulator (variation)

Dumbed-down version of Davie McPhail’s; skipped the legs becasue I didn’t feel like sitting around knotting pheasant tail and passed on the bronze mallard overwing because I used up my stash.

hook - BVFT Dry #10
thread - Veevus 8/0 black 
tag - Depth Ray fire orange
tail - pheasant tail
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing claret
body hackle - claret (1 Tbs Rit Wine/1 cup water) 
wing - deer hair dyed claret 
thorax - dubbing hot orange 
front hackle - grizzly dyed hot orange (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Scarlet/2 cups water)

Regards,
Scott
 

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Egg Sucking Leech... (do leeches really attack eggs regularly and do trout really think that's what they're looking at?)

Hook: TMC 300, size 6, 6XL.

Tail: Black marabou

Body: Black chenille

Underbody: .20 pseudo-lead

Hackle: Black hen

Head: Orange chenille

[SBPatt 0]

Muddled Mak’s Cormorant

Added a little buoyancy to his neat, little fly

hook - BVFT Dry #10
thread - Veevus 8/0 black 
rib - medium tinsel Holo Red
body - peacock herl
wing - marabou black 
head/collar - deer hair dyed black (1 Tbs Rit Dark Brown/1 cup water, overdyed with 1 Tbs Rit Black/1 cup water)

Regards,
Scott

[Pbass 0]

11 hours ago, jamieofthenorth said:

@Pbass You nailed it with that stimulator. Nice one!

@jamieofthenorth Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement. I have so much to learn.

[chugbug27 0]

@SBPatt the black looks great. 

[SBPatt 0]

26 minutes ago, chugbug27 said:

the black looks great. 

Thx; the deer hair took the dye well.  Now I can pitch all the crappy black deer hair I’ve bought over the years.

Regards,
Scott

 

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Living Waters Fly shop recently posted a nameless bass fly that was tied with the goal of putting as much motion as possible in the pattern. Other than the hackles, I have no idea how they tied their fly, but here's my (rather poor in comparison) attempt to copy the pattern. It looks kind of ugly, but I think this will be a very effective bass fly.

  

Not much to the recipe. The tail and the collar are both tied with Medium Pardo Coq de Leon hackles and Grey Heron Whiting Spey hackles. Fly Tier Dungeon's Kraken Dubbing in Silver Minnow was used for the body with some lead on the shank for weight.

 

[Pbass 0]

4 hours ago, jamieofthenorth said:

 

Egg Sucking Leech... (do leeches really attack eggs regularly and do trout really think that's what they're looking at?)

 

Not sure if they really suck eggs or not but I think I might have to tie some of those up!  looks good ! 

I have a friend that use a normal rod and reel. He puts a fly on with a bobber and then puts a maggot on the hook of the fly... Not sure what that imitates but he catches a lot of trout.  Is that a Maggot sucking fly? LOL. 

[Moshup 0]

“Cripple Cree”

Hook.       ........  Varivas 2000S.         Sz 14

Thread.    ........   Sheer 14/0.    Dark green

Tail.          .......    Mixed Grizzly & Brown

Body.        .......    Peacock quill stripped dyed olive

Wings.      .......    Wood duck flank

Hackle.    .......     Whiting Herbert Miner Silver saddle. One side stripped

 

[TSMcDougald 0]

29 minutes ago, Moshup said:

“Cripple Cree”

Hook.       ........  Varivas 2000S.         Sz 14

Thread.    ........   Sheer 14/0.    Dark green

Tail.          .......    Mixed Grizzly & Brown

Body.        .......    Peacock quill stripped dyed olive

Wings.      .......    Wood duck flank

Hackle.    .......     Whiting Herbert Miner Silver saddle. One side stripped

 

 

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[jamieofthenorth 0]

11 hours ago, Pbass said:

Not sure if they really suck eggs or not but I think I might have to tie some of those up!  looks good ! 

I have a friend that use a normal rod and reel. He puts a fly on with a bobber and then puts a maggot on the hook of the fly... Not sure what that imitates but he catches a lot of trout.  Is that a Maggot sucking fly? LOL. 

Found this article by April Vokey after my post. Summary: Highly questionable. 

https://www.themeateater.com/fish/fly/egg-sucking-leech

[DOUG STOUT 0]

On 11/21/2020 at 8:31 AM, mikemac1 said:

Pretty much a Sept, Oct, November Flies from the vise post.

Finally filled out the two boat boxes I take to the Florida Gulf Coast every Thanksgiving.  Will spend two weeks down in the Tampa/Sarasota area with the kayak chasing specs, red and snook.  This assortment usually does the trick.

Sounds like fun!  I'm in Kansas dodging covid like bullets.  Keep those expensive boxes of jems close and safe.  I've lost entire boxes of flies before, worth hundreds of dollars.  I would cry if I lost one of those boxes of beauties.  BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!    BE SAFE!!   

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Tied Down Minnow

Hook – Mustad R73-9671 or R74-9672

Thread - Olive

Tail - Dyed gray mallard flank

Body - Silver Bill’s body braid

Back - Dyed gray mallard flank

Throat - Red hackle fibers

Eyes – Painted black over yellow

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I thought this BWO would kill it yesterday but, alas, I didn't see a single riser all day. 

Hook: TMC100 size 24

Thread : Veevus 16/0 olive

Post: med dun Z-lon

Tail: med Pardo CDL

Abdomen/thorax: Nature's Spirit fine natural dubbing, baetis

Hackle: unique variant dyed olive

[edit] Excellent work everyone![/edit]