>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part II

[gutcutter]

Grannoms will be here before you know it...

 

[djs12354]

Gencon and Gutcutter

Those are some great looking ties.

Certainly not ready to try 22's until I get a magnifier. I don't think the cheaters will be enough!

 

[GenCon]

I wear 3 power cheaters for tying that small. Gutcutter they are some killer grannoms.

GenCon

 

[dc410]

Real nice ties, guys.

Gutcutter, I like your creativity with the Grannom patterns. I wish I would have more of an opportunity to fish (or even witness a good grannom hatch). Good stuff!

 

[GenCon]

The bivisible. Designed bi Hewitt. A very old pattern. His theory was fish could easily see the dark of the brown hackle. The fisherman could the easily see the white collar in front. This was one of the fist dry flys I learned to tie. Some people add a tail. The original had no tail.
This was one of my Dad's favorite patterns. He would sometimes do a gold flat tinsel body then palmer over that.

GenCon

 

[tztrout]

Caught my first dry fly trout on a brown bivisible I tied myself thirty some years ago. Great pattern that still works, especially when caddis are skittering on the surface.

 

[McSneek]

#16 Sulphur Comparadun
Hook - Tiemco 100
Thread - Uni 8/0 Light Cahill
Wing - gray deer hair
Shuck - gray antron
abdomen - TCO Sulphur turkey biot
thorax - TCO East Coast Dubbing - Sulphur Yellow

 

[GenCon]

^ nice sulphur. Nicely tied.


GenCon

 

[gutcutter]

McSneek wrote:
#16 Sulphur Comparadun
Hook - Tiemco 100
Thread - Uni 8/0 Light Cahill
Wing - gray deer hair
Shuck - gray antron
abdomen - TCO Sulphur turkey biot
thorax - TCO East Coast Dubbing - Sulphur Yellow

Very nice tie.
FYI: That pattern is called a Sparkledun because of the shuck. A Comparadun has splayed tails.

 

[beadhead2]

Here are some copper colored flies that work very well on tannic colored streams like the Tobyhanna

 

[McSneek]

gutcutter wrote:

McSneek wrote:
#16 Sulphur Comparadun
Hook - Tiemco 100
Thread - Uni 8/0 Light Cahill
Wing - gray deer hair
Shuck - gray antron
abdomen - TCO Sulphur turkey biot
thorax - TCO East Coast Dubbing - Sulphur Yellow

Very nice tie.
FYI: That pattern is called a Sparkledun because of the shuck. A Comparadun has splayed tails.

I know that. Chalk it up to early onset of old age or something.

 

[Tigereye]

@ McSneek

May I ask what type of deer hair you are using on your sulfur? I have tried different types but it seems that the grey hair is always brittle and the wings come out sloppy. I think the bleaching process prior to dying makes the hair brittle. Thanks

@Beadhead2

I have found copper to be a good color for tannic streams also. Do you tie those with copper beads?

 

[beadhead2]

Yes mostly with copper beads

 

[dc410]

Tied up a few sulphur patterns this evening. A sulphur soft hackle and a sulphur emerger.

 

[GenCon]

Henry, real nice flys. John also nice tying. I do a sulphur soft hackle very similar.

GenCon

 

[NickR]

Tying up some Drakes.

 

[JackM]

How does that cast, Nick. I like the image/profile of that fly, it looks very realistic.

 

[McSneek]

Tigereye wrote:
@ McSneek

May I ask what type of deer hair you are using on your sulfur? I have tried different types but it seems that the grey hair is always brittle and the wings come out sloppy. I think the bleaching process prior to dying makes the hair brittle. Thanks

It's just a patch I bought at TCO. I wouldn't necessarily say it's brittle but it doesn't tie as well as plain old coastal deer hair. I suspect it has something to do with the dying process as well. I tie some with the regular deer hair and they work too. Also use cdc instead of deer hair. My fly tying as of late has been all over the place. See some materials in my supply and tie something.

 

[beadhead2]

Thanks Mike ,I haven't tied anything in quite awhile ,I am a little rusty

 

[laurelrun]

Here's another riff on Ken's Crazy Ant. No wing or hackle. Flashabou for legs. Plus a little weight on the hook to pull it under.