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It looks a lot like the trico that we get here in Minipi. Thankfully I have never chased the fish on these in the lake. That would be a nightmare to try to get a big brook trout on such a small fly!
I know some people that fish the spinner falls in other places and use a spinner pattern similar to the one listed. Although instead of one clump tied in for the wing it's 3 small clumps tied in along the shank. Gives the wings a slightly more realistic profile.
Tight lines!
Seumas
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Littering!!!!!
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I have a renzetti traveler, but if I would get a norvice if I had the dough!
I have also been using these garbage knock off regals and I have been thinking of getting a real one for dry flies and other stuff I want to do fast. I find the knock offs are a lot of frustration because they will go loose and pivot around when you want it to the least. (messes with your tension etc.)
Cool thread!
SheZ
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There have been some beautiful flies coming from the vices and I must say that I am impressed.
SheZ
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Those should catch some nice fish... in style!!!
Lovely dressings Rocky.
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I am with John and think that it would be great for you to post your flies on the classic forum. I know that there are lots of us there that hunger to see the kind of creativity and skill that you have.
P.S. that last fly is another stunner!
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Claudia you did a fantastic job on those flies! Enough to take my breath away.
You are amazing.
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Judging by the overwhelming reaction I may have a lot of work before the fly pattern is finalized.
I guess there's no real need to post the updates.
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Those look like killer flies! I love the combo of the orange hackle and the green deer hair.
You'll surely catch some nice fish on those flies.
SheZ
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Here's a dry fly that I use primarily as a caddis fly that live in the stringy grass and have green blobs of eggs on their buts. I use the same pattern for a hair winged mayfly as well.
It's basically an elk hair caddis with a bit of calf tail as the tail, the hackle is on the forward body and a bit of hearl on the butt (for the egg cluster).
Tail: Brown Calf tail
Butt: Hearl
Body: Tan dubbing
Hackle: Brown
Wing: Elk Hair
Thread: Black
One of my favorites for rising trout.
I hope you enjoy.
Thanks
Seumas (aka SheZ)
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Cool thanks for the advice guys. The forst here is full of them, being in Labrador, but I'll have to look into the legality of using the .22 on them. I got a nice rouger 10/22 and the snow is melting so they should be out.
Thanks again
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I'm not sure if that is the tail that I'm looking for.. the red pine squirrels around here have a flat tail, not unlike the fox squirrel only smaller.
Thanks for your input Jeff.
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Hey guys,
I am wondering if anyone knows a good source for red pine squirrel tail. I have been looking around and can only find the red fox squirrel tails. I need these for a hair winged salmon fly project that I'm working on.
Anyhow any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
SheZ
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Not a fly, but from the vice.
A friend told me that she had a pair of feather earings and they got messed up so I decided to make her something with some of my fly tying supplies.
I had a pair of peacock pheasant that wasn't suitable for a fly, cut some shanks short and bingo!
I found it hard because I had to tie the goose shoulder in left handed (hard enough to do regularly) but it only took about an hour and a half all together.
I hope this isn't so far off topic.
S
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I voted for how longs as it takes, because I have put some serious time into single flies. These flies are not usually to be fished (not that they wouldn't catch fish), but I may sit down for an hour or two at a time. Most of my dries I usually do in 5 minutes or less. But I could put up to an hour into a streamer.
Anyhow, this was an interesting thread.
S
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I'm in around 25-100 at the moment. When I'm doing a complicated pattern it's closer to 25 and when it's dry flies it's closer to 100.
Way less in the summer, to busy on the water!
SheZ
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Hey I picked a wooly bugger but I think that a muddler is a great pattern too. I'd pick a wooly bugger to drag around while waiting for a hatch for sure.
My favorite pattern would have to be a grey wolf size 8-10.
Cool thread
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I tie for a local shop here, but I can't say that they are in my collection because they will be sold.
I don't keep a lot of my flies and so I must say that I have under 250 flies. I think I will start to concentrate on tying fishing flies for myself because I guide in the summer and it's always good to have an inventory of flies.
Anyhow, I enjoyed this thread.
SheZ
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Flatwaxed I'm glad you like the flies, but It was not my intention to make you feel inadequate.
I hope nobody finds this discouraging.
Hans I love your soft hackle variations and hope to some day put some together myself.
SheZ
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tying rediculous amounts of #8 dries for sale in the summer. usually its franken flies!
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I give away mos of the flies i tie. if i need something to fish it just takes a bit to get set up again.
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BrookieFest
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Beautiful shots and some nice fish.