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A Dry Pheasant Tail fly

Grizzly King - a Ray Bergman wet fly pattern Hook: Size 6 Tag: Gold Tinsel Tail: Red Hackle Body: Green Floss Rib: Gold Tinsel Throat: Silver badger Hen (Not the best color choice, but I don't many hen necks to choose from) Wing: Mallard

An "Orange Heron" Spey fly tied in university colors. So, I don't know what you'd call this pattern.

"Boxcar" size 4 Tail: Red hackle Tag: Gold tinsel Body: Peacock herl Wing: White calf tail Hackle: A barred variant that was laying on my desk, but it should be Brown hackle

"The Stevenson" - round 2 My second attempt at this pattern and style of fly. Better than the first attempt, but still has some problem areas (especially, the gap between the blue floss and the red herl, that I didn't see before taking the photo. ). However, I'm having fun learning this style of tying.

First attempt at this style wing and it has problems, but I think it's still a cool looking fly. "The Stevenson" on a size 2 hook.

Last fly of year for me is a Rusty Rat tied as a hat pin to be given away at next week's Dallas Fly Fisher's meeting. These "broach style" hooks are a pain to tie on and caused a few problems, but it should look good on a hat. Happy New Year Everyone!

​Santa is coming! ​It's time to put up the tree. Merry ​Christmas ​Everyone!

Very nice!

Carrie Stevens style Tomahawk

Dave's Flexament style adhesives work well for assembling the wings too.

A simplified wet tie.

Bulb, those are nice.

A couple of streamers.

Nice!

Here's a Rangeley style Streamer fly. I'm trying to learn a new style of fly. The first attempt was too ugly to post, but this one turned out much better.

Edie, the Black Prince looks good. What are the blue/green feathers in the body? I don't recognize them.

A Rusty Rat fly pattern tied in Casting for Recovery colors (or as close as I could get anyway.). I guess you could call this a "CFR Rat Fly"???

Simply brilliant!

Thanks Flat Rock, I'm still learning, but I'm having fun. This style of tying is addictive.

OK, this one was just too colorful not to attempt to tie. Pryce-Tannatt’s version of a “Variegated Sun Fly” Hook: size 4 Tag: Oval silver tinsel and light blue floss Tail: GP topping with a red GP feather substitute Body: Yellow, black, and orange yarn Hackle: Black Wings: Six GP toppings

I tied another "Rat" style fly today before I forget everything I learned yesterday. Here's a "Blue Rat"

With help from some friends, I learned a new pattern and some new techniques. Rusty Rat Photographing your flies can be very humbling. I still have a lot to learn... (But, I'm still having fun. )

Just feeling patriotic today...

I think about 23 years. I remember getting a kit for Christmas and my brother in law helping me to get started. I can't remember exactly which Christmas, but I do remember pretty much every thing that was in the tying kit. Funny how that works.