>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part III

[GenCon]

Great looking ties everyone. Dave that looks interesting. Adding ribbing would not hurt. But I don't think it would matter to the fish. On that color body I would add gold. Hope you have good luck with them.

GenCon

 

[sandfly]

Bluegill and rock bass for the big guys

 

[Anthony]

Nice work.

 

[nfrechet]

playing with twisted wires

variation of a stonefly in the round ala charles brooks

 

[elonDO]

Been tying up some stuff for Stripers getting ready for the spring run now that I'm living in NYC. Hoping to get into some action.

Also been tying up some sulphur patterns for a May trip to South Holston River in TN.

Enjoy!

Attempt at a squid pattern I made.

Another squid pattern.

Bucktail deceiver

Lefty's deceiver with Fish-mask

The Burner

Surf Candy

Popovics Grass Shrimp

Box of Sulphur Usuals, CDC sulphurs, and Loren Williams F-plus sulphur -sizes 12, 14, 16, 18

 

[sandfly]

Box of bottom dwellers

 

[sandfly]

2/0 shrimp, cream cycle rapela 4/0, umbrella bass fly, big eye musky. 6/0 cobia shrimp, 4/0 bull red shrimp

 

[GenCon]

Wow a lot of great looking flies you guys have been tying. Here is one I tied over the weekend. A good ole Adams. I used barred wood duck for the wings. I have done other patterns using these feathers.
They show up good on the stream.

GenCon

 

[sandfly]

stripers and wipers watch out ! I am ready this year.

 

[RCFetter]

Tying hare's ear in sizes 10 to 16 on Orvis heavy curved nymph hook #8A03

 

[dc410]

Good buggy looking Hare's Ear, RC.

I tied up a couple of caddis pupa type patterns this evening. These are two of my favorite caddis colors: "Hare's Ear" tan and "Tully" green.

 

[dc410]

Also have been working on the Striper box.

 

[sarce]

Love coming to this thread every so often and seeing some crazy good patterns! Awesome stuff guys.

Nfrechet, that stonefly looks like a fish slayer to me...

 

[nfrechet]

 

[RCFetter]

CB Stocker Dai Riki #700 Sz 10 4x long

 

[dc410]

Size 4 Woolhead Sculpin

 

[McSneek]

dc410 wrote:
Size 4 Woolhead Sculpin

Nice - I've tied up some similar ones but haven't fished them much. Even with a bunch of weight wrapped on the hook they didn't sink as well as I'd hoped. I thought the wool would be much more absorbent than it is. How have you done with these and how have you been weighting them to get them down?

 

[dc410]

McSneek wrote:

dc410 wrote:
Size 4 Woolhead Sculpin

Nice - I've tied up some similar ones but haven't fished them much. Even with a bunch of weight wrapped on the hook they didn't sink as well as I'd hoped. I thought the wool would be much more absorbent than it is. How have you done with these and how have you been weighting them to get them down?

It's kind of an experiment for me. I have 20+ wraps of lead wire on that pattern. I'm thinking of threading on a couple of black 3/16" tungsten beads along the belly on some heavy mono if these don't get down and from what you're saying, they probably won't get down the way I want them to. Ya live and learn!

If these aren't getting down I'll probably stick a big old chunk of split shot right in front of the fly to get it on the bottom.

 

[franklin]

Dick Taulleur's Savage Seducer. Easy tie, cheap materials. Works well on central PA streams.

 

[Dave_W]

More big stonefly nymphs. . .