>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part IV

[nfrechet]

Herb Johnson Special

Hook: Mustad 9575, #2
Thread: Grey
Tag: Silver Embossed Tinsel
Rib: Silver Embossed Tinsel
Body: Black yarn
Belly: White bucktail
Wing: Yellow bucktail topped with sparse purple bucktail
Sides: Magenta and light blue floss, as long as wing, with one strand of peacock herl
Head: Painted silver with yellow eye and black pupil

 

[nfrechet]

Cinnamon and Gold

Hook - Wet/nymph style
Thread - Tan
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Body – Gold embossed tinsel
Throat – Ginger hen hackle fibers
Wing - Cinnamon goose/duck wing feather

 

[Dave_W]

Sruflytyer wrote:
Those Crays are pretty sweet Dave!!!! What's the body material? Foam?

Thanks. The crays, and the hellgrammite, are tied with a custom material that I make myself using paint and craft cloth. The beetles below are also partly made with this material. The crayfish claws are connected to the body with rubber band, which allows for the claws to wiggle. The claws also have a small piece of foam glued underneath which provides shape as well as movement.

I like realistic flies, but these are designed to be durable and fish well, with natural movement in the water.

 

[Dave_W]

Some beetles for the summer trout season.

As mentioned in a different thread, I'm seeing a lot of Japanese Beetles this year. However, basic beetle flies are always a good choice and are my primary go-to pattern for summer trout fishing.

 

[Fredrick]

Bought a morrish mouse cutter that doubles as a gurgler cutter double score . Tied my first morrish mouse got it wet the next day and caught my personal best Bowfin 6lbs :-D

 

[nfrechet]

Fosnot

hook - wet fly style
body - yellow chenille
throat - blue hackle fibers
wing - slate goose/duck quill

 

[nfrechet]

jay blue

hook - wet fly style
thread - white under floss; black head
tail - blue hackle fibers
ribbing - flat silver tinsel
body - blue floss or uni-stretch
throat - blue hackle fibers
wing - eurasian jay

 

[nfrechet]

Brown Buck

hook - wet/nymph style
thread - black
tag - embossed silver tinsel
ribbing - peacock herl and counter-ribbed with fine oval gold tinsel
body - brown floss or uni-stretch
wing - black squirrel tail

Charles DeFeo

 

[nfrechet]

Red Bodied Sleeker

hook - wet/nymph style
thread - black
tail - 4-5 golden pheasant tippets
ribbing - white thread
body - red wool, floss or uni-stretch
throat - ginger hackle fibers
wing - mallard flank or woodduck

Charles DeFeo

 

[NewSal]

[/url]
buy ammonium sulfate
[/img]

 

[nfrechet]

stick caddis (cased caddis)

trueblood's caddis (variation)

 

[STONEMAN]

Love that stick caddis. Recipe?

 

[HopBack]

Foam beatle size 12

 

[HopBack]

#12 foam Humphy

 

[HopBack]

#12 un-sinkable caddis

 

[nfrechet]

floating nymph

hook - dry fly
thread - your choice
tail - hackle fibers
ribbing - fine copper wire
body - superfine dubbing
wingcase - foam
thorax - spikey dubbing

tie these in your favorite colors, favorite dubbing etc

 

[tomgamber]

Like this..

 

[Dave_W]

More muskie flies. They kinda look like snakeheads, don'tcha think?

Now if only the rivers would come down so we can target toothies this fall....

 

[GenCon]

Nice flys guys. I have been so busy with work. I have hardly tied a fly since I mid June. This will slow down soon and I will get some vice time.

GenCon

 

[Dave_W]

More big meat streamers for the fall season....