Unreal

[wsender]

Say what you will about the realm of super realistic tying, but this is truly amazing.

http://www.jsonsweden.com/academy.php

Read it all, but if it's tl;dr go about half way down and at least check out the videos and the PDF's available.

 

[sandfly]

Cool, kinda like I tie with the wing burners, though I don't get into such detail. will have to play around some more...

 

[dreamsofstreams]

On the contrary...incredibly real.

That is true artwork

 

[wsender]

They don't seem overly difficult to tie either. I just watched the Mayfly Dun video and read the PDF. Might have to give this a try when I get home tonight.

 

[wsender]

Anyone want to take a guess at what his wing material is that he's selling? It appears to be a clear non-sticky (celluloid?) sheet that you stick another sheet, which you color to you specifications, to.

Do you think it's really as easy as something like a printable overhead transparency?

 

[franklin]

They look very real to us but how do they look to the trout? Do they fish any better? Some of the materials we use in "normal" flies we tie don't look as accurate to use but might do a better job imitating moving legs, wings, and appendages.

 

[wsender]

franklin wrote:
They look very real to us but how do they look to the trout? Do they fish any better? Some of the materials we use in "normal" flies we tie don't look as accurate to use but might do a better job imitating moving legs, wings, and appendages.

No doubt what-so-ever. This just has that 'cool' factor. This is more about making an accurate representation of a fly then making a 'better', i.e. catches more fish, fly.

I might eat these word but I think people give a lot more credit to fish then they might deserve. They try eat just about anything that remotely resembles food. They'll try to rocks, vegetation, my thingamabobber, really anything.

90% of the tying that tiers do is about the tying and not about catching fish, at least that's how I feel.

 

[franklin]

If you watch Ozzie's videos (http://www.underwateroz.com/index.html) you will see trout constantly taking in pieces of algae and other non food items. Many times spitting it out and sometimes swallowing. I believe the trouts response to food is a combination of instinctive and learned. The learned portion is short lived and needs to be re-learned in a short time. I think the learning part constantly gets reinforced during a hatch and is a reason they tend to focus in on one food source. Many times they take our flies because their instinct is to try it. The hatch matching is often tougher because they have just ingrained a specific learned pattern that must be a closer match for them to take the fly.

 

[gfen]

I met one of these guys at Somerset last year. THe flies look incredible, and not that hard to tie, but my experience with burnt feather wings leads me to invision Apocalypse Now's Ride of the Valkeries with my flies helicoptering in for a landing.

 

[pcray1231]

Yeah, I picked up some "Rob's Realistics" once somewhere I don't remember, and again last year at Somerset. The stonefly patterns are awesome, and caught me some good fish. The caddis look great but I don't think they work that much better than stadard ties. Thats all I've tried so far.

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-93962238211049_2146_234942

Will take picture tonight, in person they're much more yellow/gold, i.e. not as dark. Back end appears to be painted gumbands (rubber bands for you non-yinzers)

Caddis:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-93962238211049_2146_2925299

 

[wsender]

Saw this for making wings. Seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to replicate the method j:son uses with the the two sheets.

http://www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?act=article&article_id=60#

 

[pcray1231]

Some pics from my box of the Rob's realistics I got last year. Sorry the photography is kinda washed out.