Shaq

Great creative flies! Please let us know how they do! I like the ideas.

June 21, 2008

Salmon River

Altmar, NY

2-Handed Rods

Buelah, Echo, Thomas & Thomas, Scott, Orvis, Guidelines, Hardy, Diamondback, Cortland, CND, Winston, Sage, Burkheimer, Meiser

Lines

Cortland, Guidelines, Beulah, Hardy, Airflo, Snobee

FFF Certified Casting Instructors

This is a grass routes organization that is being set up to further the culture and techniques of spey fishing in the emerging market of the Great Lakes. This will be our day to celebrate and make a splash. I urge anybody that has thought about buying a first or tenth spey rod, or just thought it was cool looking to come. There will be auctions and raffles to benefit the hatchery or the Salmon River in general. We have some pretty big names that we just need confirmation on and I will be adding them to the list. There will also be oppurtunities the Sunday afterward to take a formal lesson with FFF certified Spey instuctors so stay tuned to find out more on those.

All the thorax ties have the bottom hackles clipped. I just like them riding flush

close-ups

http://www.theanglersnet.com/forum/forum_p...p;PID=1849#1849

One hatch down......several to go!

Uff,

Great lookig fly!

12/0 uni though, won't it break? Mono better?

Hook: Dry 12-16

Tail: Light Dun Hackle Fibres

Body: Light Hendrickson Goose Biot

Wing: Tan CDC

Hackle: Light Dun

Head: Light Pink Superfine

vid

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=154

Hook: Dry Fly 10-24

Thread: Cream

Tail: Cream Hackle Barbs

Body: Stripped Hackle Stem, Cream

Hackle: Cream

A Great Sulpher or Cahill Pattern in broken water and in the smaller sizes, a great midge copy.

Vid:

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=148

Or......you could suck up to David real bad

Hook: Alec Jackson #3

Tag: Cranberry Flashabou/Claret Ostrich Herl

Body: Fushia Holo FLash

Rib: Gold Tinsel

Body: Black Angora

Hackle: 1 Blue Eared Pheasant Dyed Purple, 1 BEP Dyed Black

Collar: Black Schlappen

Cheek: Jungle Cock

Wing: Bronze Mallard

Thread: Black

I sat down last night for fun and converted my most successful tube fly for steelhead to a spey format. I think it came out pretty good

Ouch, Let me get the sunglasses out! Awesome!

Necks

Hook: Dry Fly 12-10

Tail: Ginger Hackle Barbs

Body: Ginger Hackle Quill Stripped

Hackle: 1 Grizzly, 1 Ginger Barred, 1 Dark Ginger Barred

The 3 hackles should be wound over each other as bunched up as possible

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=147

Hook: Dry Fly 16-12

Tail: Ginger

Body: Light Cahill Superfine or Cream

Wing: Wood Duck Flank

Hackle: Ginger

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=145

Hook: Dry Fly 14-10

Tail: Dark Ginger

Body: Light Tan

Wing: Wood Duck Flank

Hackle: Brown and Grizzly

The traditional "Catskill" version of the March Brown.

Video

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=143

Hook: Dry Fly 12-22

Wing: White Calf Tail

Tail: Elk or Moose tail

Body: Peacock Herl, Red floss, Peacock Herl

Hackle: Brown

I'm not sure I deserve to do this one, it's one of the best classics designed by one of the best classics. Just such a sweet fly

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=141

Hook: Dry Fly size 14 - 12

Tail: Dark Dun

Body: Brown Hackle Stem, Stripped

Wing: Wood Duck Flank

Hackle: Dark Dun

Vid

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=140

Sweet!

Wing: Wood Duck Flank

Tail: Dark Blue Dun Hackle Fibres

Body: Stripped Peacock Quill Lacquered optional

Hackle: Dark Blue Dun Hackle

Video

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=139

The simplistic but all important, never be without, Griffith's Gnat

vid

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=138

Hook: Dry Fly Size 16-14

Tail: Medium Dun

Body: Light Urine Stain Fox Belly or Hendrickson Superfine

Wing: Woodduck Flank

Hackle: Medium Dun

Vid

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=137

Hook: Dry Fly

Tail: Brown Hackle Fibres

Body: Dark Brown Superfine

Rib: Yellow Floss

Wing: Barred Mallard Flank

Hackle: One Brown and One Grizzly Hackle

Thread: Brown

http://www.theanglersnet.com/Fly-Fishing-V...n=6&VID=136

Good God dude! Your flies always look like they have lights in them. Too Cool

These are the large brass loop tubes, only ones long enough to have all this going on. I leave out the rabbit for the small ones. I only have 1 size Polar chenille available and there is no size indication on it but it's about an inch long on the fibres.

Pink and black are good combos. I took a fish on this one last week...it's a bit mangled. These are great for deep short slots because they stay deep because they are so heavy

Also going to try

Gotta admit, I haven't done great with olive.. :dunno:

But I do tie them

And Before you ask....

And I have hot pink, black and orange too,