December Flies From The Vise

[niveker 0]

8 hours ago, DFoster said:

MARCH BROWN

Very nice.  

[bdngrd 0]

BWO variant, size 20

Tail, microfibbets

Body, olive thread

Thorax, light olive dubbing

Grizzly hackle

[flytire 0]

CDC GOLDEN STONE

Hook – Mustad 9671 or equivalent, #8-16

Bead - Gold brass or tungsten

Weight – Lead/lead free wire

Thread – Yellow or tan

Tail - Dyed yellow or tan pheasant tail fibers

Rib - Monofilament

Flashback - Mirage tinsel

Abdomen: Golden stonefly color dubbing. I used Mercer’s Signature Series Buggy Nymph dubbing

Thorax: Same dubbing as the abdomen

Legs: Natural CDC, wrapped as a collar

Collar – ginger hen hackle

Head - Same dubbing as abdomen and thorax

From - Tying Nymphs - Charlie Craven

[flytire 0]

Adder

Hook - Mustad 3399 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tip - Orange floss

Ribbing - Orange floss

Body - Brown floss

Hackle: Brown

Wing - Brown mottled turkey *

 From Don Bastian Notes

* Many wet flies in Bergman’s books call for a wing of brown turkey. Some recipes merely list ‘brown,’ while others call for ‘light brown’ or ‘dark brown’ turkey. All these shades are usually mottled. The original listing above and on subsequent patterns has been clarified with the addition of the word ‘mottled.’ Examination of the shade of wing in the original paintings or these photographs will aid fly tiers in selecting proper color for tying turkey-winged patterns.

[DFoster 0]

EMERALD COACHMAN

HOOK: FIREHOLE 633 #12

THREAD: BLACK #70

TAIL: PARTRIDGE WING COVERT FIBERS

ABDOMEN/BODY: PEACOCK HERL WITH GREEN FLOSS SEGMENT

THORAX: PEACOCK HERL

BEARD: GUINEA HEN – DYED YELLOW

WING: PARTRIDGE PRIMARY -DYED GREEN

HEAD: S.H. HARD AS NAILS

 

[SBPatt 0]

Fiery Cephalopod

Started out as a fly I saw on Peter Driver’s site but I was curious to see how a new dye lot turned out so I modified the front end a bit.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
tail - yarn sunburst
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing fiery brown
body hackles - brown/orange 
cheeks - biots dyed sunburst (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water)
1st shoulder - bleached pheasant rump dyed burnt orange (3 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/8 Tsp Rit Cocoa Brown/1 cup water)
2nd shoulder - pheasant body feather dyed burnt orange

Regards,
Scott

[Partridge 0]

Verdant Marvel 

Hook: Gamakatsu B10S size 8; Tag: Body Quill 20; Thread: Black Uni 8/0; Body: Uni-Yarn Ins. Green; Rib: Uni Ultra Wire Golden Olive small; Wing 1: SF Shrimp; Wing 2 Light Green Marabou; Throat: Electric Wool Faerie's Breath; Hackle: Green dyed feather and Head: Purple Shapie under Solarez.  

[Chasing_Tails 0]

Popcorn Shrimp

Hook: Gamakatsu Live Bait Heavy, #4

Thread: Uni-Thread 6/0, Fire orange

Tail: Select craft fur, tan

Flash: Flashabou Holo, gold

Legs: Sili-legs, brown/orange

Body: Estaz, standard, peach

Eyes: Bead chain, medium, black

Weedguard: mono, 25lb

[upstatetrout 0]

The Wallkill from plate #3 of Just Fishing by Ray Bergman. The wing on this fly is Mandarin Duck.

 

 

[chugbug27 0]

Now that is just stunning. Thanks for posting, @upstatetrout

[WWKimba 0]

Classic Catskill!

[MuskyFlyGuy 0]

Upstate,

Beautiful work on that dry fly!

[upstatetrout 0]

Thank you guys it is part of a little project I am doing the "kill" (river) series of flies that Bergman presented in his book Just Fishing. The pictures are in the book but no recipes so there is some interpretation going on here.

[flytire 0]

Magalloway

Hook - Mustad 3399 or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tag - Flat gold tinsel

Tail -  Yellow hackle fibers

Butt - Back chenille 

 Body - Light brown wool

Throat - Brown hackle fibers

Wing - Peacock sword fibers

 

Trout - Ray Bergman

[Chris_in_Louisiana 0]

Sat down at the vise last weekend for the first time in quite a while.

Mayer's Mini Leech (jig-style)

Hook: Firehole 516 (size 16)

Bead: 2.5mm slotted tungsten (Nickel Black)

Thread: 70 Denier

Tail: Pine Squirrel Zonker

Body: Ostrich Herl