Streamer Fly Swap

i'll be doing the ragworm streamers which will look something like this.

i saw this fly on Barry Ord Clarke's table at the last Tyers Symposium. It had a lot of motion and with the tungsten bead it would jig and look amazing in the water. I stuck around to watch him tie one at his
talk in the afternoon and thought it was a cool pattern with interesting tying techniques that looked like fun to try. You guys get to tell me how they fish! Looking forward to some pics of fish with this fly in their mouths.


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lars said:
i'll be doing the ragworm streamers which will look something like this.

i saw this fly on Barry Ord Clarke's table at the last Tyers Symposium. It had a lot of motion and with the tungsten bead it would jig and look amazing in the water. I stuck around to watch him tie one at his
talk in the afternoon and thought it was a cool pattern with interesting tying techniques that looked like fun to try. You guys get to tell me how they fish! Looking forward to some pics of fish with this fly in their mouths.


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Nice! Is that all rabbit fur made into a brush with dubbing loops?
 
I'll tie some form of mohair leech. Haven't tied any of them in a while and they were very effective so it's probably time
 
dc410 said:
Nice! Is that all rabbit fur made into a brush with dubbing loops?
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yes it's rabbit. he used possum but i didn't have any on a hide. kinda hard to describe, but the body is two dubbing loops with a dressed hook in the middle of the two loops which after being spun are folded over one another and they twist into one. so it winds up with the hook at the rear connected to the eye with four strands of the 200 denier gelspun.
 
lars said:
yes it's rabbit. he used possum but i didn't have any on a hide. kinda hard to describe, but the body is two dubbing loops with a dressed hook in the middle of the two loops which after being spun are folded over one another and they twist into one. so it winds up with the hook at the rear connected to the eye with four strands of the 200 denier gelspun.
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And this is why I tie dry flies….
 
I was spinning up some Shenk’s White Minnows last evening for the streamer swap. Here is some arctic fox fur spun up in a dubbing loop. Arctic fox fur is pretty nice material to work with in a loop.

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dc410 said:
I was spinning up some Shenk’s White Minnows last evening for the streamer swap. Here is some arctic fox fur spun up in a dubbing loop. Arctic fox fur is pretty nice material to work with in a loop.
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looks like an excellent material for trimming to the proper shape for a Shenk's minnow. do you use a dubbing loop material clip?
 
lars said:
looks like an excellent material for trimming to the proper shape for a Shenk's minnow. do you use a dubbing loop material clip?
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I have a material clip that I do use occasionally to load a dubbing loop but in this case with the arctic fox fur I’m just waxing up the loop and loading the fox fur into the loop by hand being careful not to load it too heavy. Then I clip the long tips or butts off of both sides of the brush to keep it more manageable before I spin it up.
 
I’ll be tying a micro Martins Minnow variant.

Ideas from here:
Tying the Martins minnow (MScustomflies) (hair tying)
Tying Deep Minnow Clones (hook, and eye placement)

I’m not settled on the final makeup, but here’s my first attempt. It’s approximately 2.5” long, tied on a size #16 Mustad 33937 popper hook, using bead chain eyes and black/white/tan poly rug yarn. I’ll probably use weighted eyes on the final version. My thoughts: I think the black section should be half as wide, the tan should be darker, and if I had used weighted eyes the colors would be upside down, but I think the profile looks pretty good.

Comments/criticism welcome.

Thanks!

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