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March 2012: Flies from the Vise

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'nother WFTC Fly

Tag: Gold Flash as tinsel

Body: Pink Acrylic Yarn (with a red flash woven in)

Rib: Gold Flash as tinsel

Throat: Red Flash (FTD)

Underwing: Pink Congo Hair (FTD) with strands of red flash mixed in

Overwing: Duck Breast Feather(?)

Hook: #6 Salmon Steel (SDNS)

Head: 6/0 Wine Flymaster

Head Collar: Gold Flash as tinsel

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Enjoying tying Walk For The Cure flies for wife's auction , but I guess I better get busy on some fishin' flies... :lol:

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Two Midge of Life variants...

 

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MOL (Brown/Pink), Bloch/Variant...#18-#20

 

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MOL (Cream), Bloch/Variant...#18-#20...

 

 

 

PT/TB ;)

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A variant of a Blue Charm Hair wing

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Not a perfect rendition...an educational one.... :lol:

Murray

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White Winged Dove Turkey Muddler

 

Tip o' the hat to "Joe Hard" for the idea of a copper body, in this case wire....with musical accompaniment by Stevie Nicks..."ooh, ooh, ooooooh"

Murray

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Hook: Streamer hook #4 2x

Tail: Orange Turkey Fibers

Body: Copper Wire wound to 2/3 point

Wing: Orange Buck tail

Collar: Orange Deer Hair

Head: Bead w/deer hair trimmed to size

Thread: Black 6/0 Flymaster

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the Bead Head Deer Hair Muddler

Will it catch fish? Time will tell....

Murray

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I have recently built a dubbing brush twister thingy and am busy trying to learn how to use it.

The tail of this fly is a magnum white rabbit strip and the brush is made of arctic fox tail because I didn't have any rabbit fur long enough. The ability to embed flash into the brush and thus into the body is very cool. I'm still trying to make a good brush out of synthetic materials. I have some congo hair on order to try out.

 

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Hello Eaglerapids, really nice tie, and if you are getting stuck into dubbing brushes you will be hooked soon enough, can really put anything in them, i tend to enjoy split thread types or jigged up wire brushes best :)

 

Anyway it inspired me to do up some brushy flies and more...

 

Got some whitebaits on a size #8 bonefish hook and 0.020 leadfree wire...

 

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Pink baits.

 

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Mirror Minnows.

 

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CCG Mylar Minnows.

 

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Mini EP ties 1-1.5 inch.

 

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Just getting into some little articulated patterns

 

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Sorry another Nail fly, smaller tho :P

 

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Gorgeous flys FF'J! I have a couple small minnow type flies I've tied up out of some poly yarn I'm taking down to a pond after posting this but the quality isn't that great, I took some pictures but I don't want to post them till I get a better understanding of how to work this material and I'm still waiting for the congo hair. These brushes are addicting, I really need to be tying nymphs but I'm hung up on this stuff:-). But, as I've read, sparse seems to be the key, I tend to go a bit overboard and get the materials to dense in the brush but I'm learning.

Thanks again for posting your flies.

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Gorgeous flys FF'J! I have a couple small minnow type flies I've tied up out of some poly yarn I'm taking down to a pond after posting this but the quality isn't that great, I took some pictures but I don't want to post them till I get a better understanding of how to work this material and I'm still waiting for the congo hair. These brushes are addicting, I really need to be tying nymphs but I'm hung up on this stuff:-). But, as I've read, sparse seems to be the key, I tend to go a bit overboard and get the materials to dense in the brush but I'm learning.

Thanks again for posting your flies.

 

 

Cheers! You are going to have fun with the congo hair, a load of methods you can use, even stacking it like deer hair to create nice bodies. You are right, i think use half of what you actually think you should use and it works well. You will have to post more flies when it arrives.

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