mikechell

I figured I give this a try. Since starting back up on the tying bench, I've been spinning hair. I gave up on it when I tried before, because I didn't have all the information. The last time I tried this was before the internet was big. Anyway, I've played around and done up a couple of small hair-bugs that are based on bass but small enough for large bream. There are a couple of bugs for big bass too, but I haven't fished them yet. The corks are the same size, so you can tell which two are the bream bugs and bass bugs.

Born and raised in Indiana ... left there when I was old enough and headed south to get out of the cold. Lived in South Carolina, then joined the Marine Corps ... got "laid off" after Desert Storm and moved to Florida to go to Motorcycle school. After working in the field for a while, I went back to that school in 1997 and started teaching what I'd learned in all my years. Been fishing most of my life, fly fishing about a year less time. (I started like most kids, with live bait and bluegill jigs.) Started tying about a decade ago, then fell out of it. Now I am back into it and with more enthusiasm than I've had for anything in a long time.

Cute little turtle. Poor little bass. But pretty neat that you got it all on film and didn't hurt the turtle.

Utyer's probably hit it on the head. I am fairly new to tying too. My first mistake was to wrap things in the opposite direction to the thread. I thought this would make the finishing better, but wrapping over the end of the hackle pulls it in the looser direction and ... that dog don't hunt!

Pretty lures. You're being modest ... I especially like the green one. That would work well in the large-mouth waters I fish.