March Flies from the Vice

[Stmflies 0]

Thanks bruce!! I had thought about getting the junior. Might have to get one of those too.

[sculpinmaster 0]

Winter Brown - I'm really please with the herl head on this one.

 

Winter Brown spider by sculpin_crusader, on Flickr

[add147 0]

sculpinmaster,

What type of feather is that for the hackle? The long gray in color one. Your fly looks great indeed!!!!

[vjc 0]

First fly this month. Going to try these on spring run steelhead.

[sculpinmaster 0]

Thanks add, it is from the underside of a starlings wing. The feathers are dun with a cream trim.

[portlyjoe 0]

Pheasent soft hackle, uv eggyarn, bucktail, size 18

[DavidHE 0]

sculpinmaster- I do like those herl heads. Beautiful spiders, the entire lot.

[vjc 0]

010.JPGPheasent soft hackle, uv eggyarn, bucktail, size 18

Very nice. Thinking it would be good for steelhead in 10s and 12s.

[BattenkillBum 0]

Voodoo Squatch

[add147 0]

Hey portlyjoe...What size pom pom did you use on your fly? I ran across some red ones (7mm) 100 pack for 25 cents each. I snatched them up at that price at Hobby Lobby.

[mikechell 0]

I went to a D.R.I.F.T. meeting tonight ... and got to watch and tie with a nice young lady names Meg Gallagher.

She had us do two patterns ... the first was an easy little 16 blood midge. Again, getting used to my camera, I couldn't get a better image than this.

 

 

She explained that she did that one, because the second fly (the one she was there to demo) was a more complicated fly.

She provided the materials, and walked us through the tying of a size 14 stimulator.

 

 

I liked her instruction, and was able to tie my first stimulator. I think I've discovered a fly I just might buy some hackle to tie.

 

[portlyjoe 0]

Hey portlyjoe...What size pom pom did you use on your fly? I ran across some red ones (7mm) 100 pack for 25 cents each. I snatched them up at that price at Hobby Lobby.

VJC,

Its not a store bought pom pom, I tied uv globug yarn ( like i was making an egg). and cut it really tight to the hook. It measures 3 mm ( just checked). the hackle is from a pheasent I shot last year, and the tail is an electric blue bucktail.

[portlyjoe 0]

I went to a D.R.I.F.T. meeting tonight ... and got to watch and tie with a nice young lady names Meg Gallagher.

She had us do two patterns ... the first was an easy little 16 blood midge. Again, getting used to my camera, I couldn't get a better image than this.

Meg Gallagher - blood midge.JPG

 

She explained that she did that one, because the second fly (the one she was there to demo) was a more complicated fly.

She provided the materials, and walked us through the tying of a size 14 stimulator.

Meg Gallagher - stimulator.JPG

 

I liked her instruction, and was able to tie my first stimulator. I think I've discovered a fly I just might buy some hackle to tie.

 

Very Cool Mike, I wish we had a fly club local that did those kind of meetings.

[mikechell 0]

I do too, Joe. I am lucky that I got invited to these while I am on the road for business. Nothing like this close to me in Florida.

[add147 0]

portlyjoe,

I see...Guess I should have read more closely on the post. Thanks for the clarification! Oh well now I got 4 packages of small red pom poms to add to my largely growing stash of tying material. There's a Hobby Lobby right down the street from my work so I stop in there some to check out the clearance rack.