October flesh from the vise

[caloosa bug 0]

Modified copy of caloosa bugs weedless frog, on a 1/0 I need to get some smaller worm hooks.

 

Nice.. I had a bunch of #4s and #2's I scored at my local walgreens. I had never seen worm hooks so small. Just recently they got rid of the fishing isle. I have a few left, but will have to shop elsewhere now.

 

Trying to add some variety to my boxes lately. I realized I had a lot of foam, deer hair, and synthetics. So...I've been playing with feathers lately.

[Bimini15 0]

Like them all!

[bulb 0]

 

 

 

Tying some articulated streamers, fun stuff.

Great pattern!

 

Thanks Eide

 

Bulb,

What is the material for the head?

I love it.

 

Cheers mate, the head is a mix of thin flash like angelhair and gray cat fur from my old cat. The cat fur has allot of guardhairs in it and its is a bit longer than rabbit fur, i saved up a bunch and use it on all types of flies. Sorry for the late reply haven't checked in in a while, been pretty busy lately

[Bimini15 0]

No problem, Bulb. And thanks for the answer.

The material substitution is hillarious to me as there is a Spanish saying used in situations where someone has been fooled, which translates as “giving somebody cat instead of hare”.

[Rocco 0]

cats are often served as "roof rabbits" in some climes.

 

Rocco

[fshng2 0]

Bulb, when I went back thru the posts I was thinking about your grey cat you mentioned.

When I saw your fly I thought nooo.. he didn't make zonker strips out of his cat.

Then I realized it was just the hair on the head of the fly...ha.

[Bimini15 0]

Well... People do have weird ways to immortalize their cats.

There is a drone frame configuration commonly called dead cat, named after... well... see for yourselves...

 

 

In looking fot this pic I learned the guy is woking on a cow...

[fshng2 0]

Well... People do have weird ways to immortalize their cats.

There is a drone frame configuration commonly called dead cat, named after... well... see for yourselves...

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In looking fot this pic I learned the guy is woking on a cow...

That's just nuts!

With the cow thing, maybe he's just trying to get in the Moo-vie business.

[bulb 0]

Some people taxidermy their dead dogs, so i don’t see why i can’t turn my cat into a zonkered pelt when it kicks the bucket . . . ;D

[chugbug27 0]

Chugbug's Golden Pheasant October Caddis Pupa

Hook #10 streamer 1xs 3xl, bent up at thorax

Thread utc yellow hopper 70 denier

Abdomen mix of crawdad orange Antron dubbing and yellow ice dub, on dubbing loop for segmentation and roughed up for halo

Rib tying thread

Mid-shank veiling with golden ph crest, surrounded by golden ph tippets

Pupal wingcase gold tungsten bead (5/32") fronted by golden ph neck fluff (found under tippets)

Thorax dark brown SLF dubbing

[Bimini15 0]

[chugbug27 0]

Chugbug's Creamsicle October Caddis Pupa

[fshng2 0]

Haystack

Fran Betters 1930's.

Fran developed this pattern for slow-moving waters that were usually spring-fed.

He used a wing of deer hair that flared in an arc so that the lowermost hairs supported the fly in the surface waters.

The tail had bunched deer hair.

I substituted antron for the body to add sparkle.

 

Tail: Bucktail

Body: Tan antron

Wing: Deer body fur

 

[caloosa bug 0]

I'm liking how these turned out.

[Tom Cummings 0]

Messing around with different hooks and sizes. Smallest is simple hackle and dubbing on a #20 curved nymph hook