December Flies From The Vise

[Vandelay Industries 0]

On 12/15/2021 at 5:47 AM, niveker said:

Welcome to the site.  

Nice tie - great screen name -LOL. 

Thank you! 

I'm glad you like the screen name.

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Family Secret

Hook – Mustad 3665A or equivalent 

Thread – White under the body, Black head

Tail - Between ten and twenty peacock sword fibers, depending on size of hook

Body - Fllat silver tinsel

Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel

Throat - A bunch of guinea hen hackle fibers

Wing - White hackles

Cheeks - Jungle cock

Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing - Joseph D Bates Jr

[SBPatt 0]

Neon Olive Muddled Mayfly 

Playing around with different materials.  Neither of the shoulders provide much contrast/ definition; blue-dyed chukar and unbleached pheasant rump dyed darker olive on the next one although that’s more for my benefit than the fish’s.

hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - Danville 6/0 chartreuse 
tag/rib - Glo Brite #11/resin 
tail - bleached pheasant tail dyed neon olive (2 Tsp Rit Lemon Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Neon Green/2 cups water)
body - angora rabbit dyed neon olive
body hackle - grizzly dyed neon olive
1st shoulder - hen grizzly dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)
2nd shoulder - bleached pheasant rum dyed neon olive
collar/head - deer hair dyed neon olive

Regards,
Scott

[flytire 0]

Black Angel

Hook - Mustad 3399

Thread - Black

Tail - Black hackle fibers

Body - Black uni stretch

Throat - Black hackle fibers

Wing - Black hen hackle tips

Wet Flies - Ken Sawada

[danthebugman 0]

Lunch Money tied on a #6 B10s. Got a little heavy with the laser dub, but otherwise turned out pretty well and a quick, pretty easy streamer to tie.

[Philly 0]

Still tying Clousers for my SW club's table at the January Fly Fishing show in.  These are heavy duty ones tied to imitate larger sand eels.  The hook is a discontinued TMC saltwater streamer hook.  The closest contemporary hook I could find to it was the TMC 9395.  I made up the dumbbell eyes myself.  Ingredients, heavy wire used to make spinner baits, large tungsten cones, thread, super glue and UV resin.  The flies weigh 4 grams each. Not sure I'd want to fish them with my 8 wgt.

Hook - TMC Saltwater streamer hook(9395?) Size 1/0 or 2/0

Thread - Clear polyester

Top wing- Olive Buck Tail

Bottom Wing - White Buck Tail

Flash - Pearl or Chartreuse Crystal Flash 

Weight - Homemade dumbbell eyes using tungsten cones

 

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Neon Olive Muddled Crippler (variation)

hook - Maruto 206BL #8
thread - Danville 6/0 chartreuse 
tag/rib - Glo Brite #11/resin 
tail - bleached pheasant tail dyed neon olive
body - angora rabbit dyed neon olive  (2 Tsp Rit Lemon Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Neon Green/2 cups water)
body hackle - grizzly dyed neon olive
shoulder - chukar dyed neon olive
collar/head - caribou hair dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)

Regards,
Scott

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Molechunkemunk

Hook – Mustad 3399

Thread - Black

Ribbing - Flat silver tinsel

Body - Orange floss

Hackle - Furnace/brown hen hackle fibers

Wings - Brown mallard

 

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Green Wisp

Hook - Mustad 3399

Thread - Olive

Tail - Dyed green hackle fibers

Body - Pale green floss

Wing - Wood duck or mallard flank

Beard - Dyed green hackle fibers

Originator - Ralph Hoffman, New York

[flytire 0]

 

Claret & Partridge

Hook - Mustad 3399

Thread - Orange

Body - Claret wool yarn

Hackle - Hungarian Partridge

[Chris_in_Louisiana 0]

On 12/16/2021 at 8:20 AM, terp said:

Chris, these seem very clever.  How do you fish them?  Like a nymph or a streamer or both?  And I assume you use them for trout.  Thanks.

They can be fished as either a streamer or nymph   And, yes, I tied them as part of a trout box re-stock.  I did, however, give them a test run with the local panfish on Tuesday afternoon.  Happy to say the local Crappie approved of the olive version.  Just need to go back and make some tweaks on the next few.  Primarily a few wraps of flash around the shank to the rear of the Ostrich Herl.

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Claret Mayfly (variation)

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange 
tag- Orvis saltwater thread neon orange 
tail - pheasant tail
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing claret 
body hackle - red/claret (1Tbs Rit Wine/1 cup water)
shoulder - chukar

Regards,
Scott

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WF53

A real catchy name; found this among the Happy Flyfischer’s offerings. Sometimes chukar lays down so nicely it makes me want to cry; this one fought me on every wrap.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange 
tail - bleached pheasant tail dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
rib - small tinsel gold
body - dubbing burnt orange 
1st shoulder - hen hot orange
2nd shoulder - hen light orange
3rd shoulder - chukar dyed yellow (1 cup Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water)

Regards,
Scott
 

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Black Drake Soft Hackle

A Dick Winter Fly Pattern

Hook - Mustad 94840, size 10-12

Thread - Brown

Tail - White neck hackle fibers

Body - Brown or maroon wool

Rib - Gray mono-cord or silver oval tinsel

Thorax - Peacock herl

Collar - White or cream hen hackle

Dick Winter's Black Drake Soft Hackle is tied using a maroon or brown body ribbed with contrasting gray mono-cord ribbing. The fly is part of a life-cycle series and based on Polly Rosborough patterns. Dick and Polly were partners in a fly-tying business in the 1970's working together closely. Dick's patterns balance simplicity and realism. Being a commercial fly tyer, simple patterns were preferred especially when several dozen are required to be tied in an afternoon.

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On 12/16/2021 at 7:20 PM, danthebugman said:

Lunch Money tied on a #6 B10s. Got a little heavy with the laser dub, but otherwise turned out pretty well and a quick, pretty easy streamer to tie.

That is real nice.

Regards,
Scott