>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part IV

[LongLineRelease]

Great hair work

 

[LongLineRelease]

Perla Stone. Usually I tie these inverted.

 

[Dave_W]

I'm working up some classic streamer flies for mounting shadow box style for an upcoming art show.

Since I mount my flies on mat board, I'll start by tying a heavy wire post against the shank of the hook, which protrudes out perpendicular to the shank. I'll then build up a base of thread and seal it with a varnish (as can be seen in the upper pic).

The fly is then tied in traditional manner, in this case a Grey Ghost, working carefully around the wire.

When the fly is ready to mount, I'll put a clear bead on the wire and secure it with some Superglue to serve as a spacer. The wire is then pushed into the mat board and secured with epoxy.

 

[dc410]

Very nice, Dave

 

[Steeltrap]

Hot bead head and Tungsten bead head soft hackle nymphs.

Tail--Hen hackle fibres
Body--Dyed pheasant tail. Olive, Rust
Thorax--Grey squirrel tail dubbing
Hackle--Partridge
Thread--Olive

 

[JerryC]

I learned this pattern last spring in a tying class sponsored by my salt water fly fishing club. I've tweaked it a little bit, enlarging the open gill
slits. I'm headed up to Northern Ontario in late June. Hope that the smallies and pike take a liking to it.

 

[nfrechet]

Black Pheasant Tail


Tail - Dyed black pheasant tail fibers
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Dyed black pheasant tail fibers
Wing case - Dyed black pheasant tail fibers
Thorax - Bleached and dyed peacock herl

Bleached and dyed peacock herl colors top to bottom

Blue Wing Olive
Muskrat Gray
Caddis Green
Purple
Dark Tan
Ginger

 

[Fly-Swatter]

JerryC: Cool flies! Could you please share your gluing technique.

 

[JerryC]

by Fly-Swatter on 2020/2/19 20:10:35

JerryC: Cool flies! Could you please share your gluing technique.

I'm using super glue to hold the edges together.
On these two I have a rattle wrapped on the bottom of the hook. I coat the bottom and sides of the rattle with a light coat of super glue and the head portion is slid on and held in place till the glue sets. I also coated the top and sides of the hook and rattle with UV resin. Tie on the tail material, coat one side(inside) with light coat of super glue, fold the body over the tail material and hook shank. I trim it to shape, color the body with permanent markers, add eyes and coat with UV resin. It's a variation a Yasaku style Crease Fly. I just made the gill openings larger

Here's the template and the head portion glued.

 

[nfrechet]

Tan Pheasant Tail

Tail - Dyed tan pheasant tail fibers
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Dyed tan pheasant tail fibers
Wing case - Dyed tan pheasant tail fibers
Thorax - Uni stretch

Uni stretch colors top to bottom

Chinese Red
Yellow
Orange

There are many more colors of uni stretch and even more colors of single strand floss that can be used for the thorax area

Be creative. Experiment

 

[Steeltrap]

Nfrechet,

Interesting tie of a nymph you have there. Wing case looks great. I "need" to tie up a few of these and see how effective they could be.

Thanks for your post!!

Dave

 

[Fly-Swatter]

JerryC: Thanks!

 

[nfrechet]

Pheasant Tail Style Nymphs

Red

Tail - Dyed red pheasant tail fibers
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Dyed red pheasant tail fibers
Wing case - Dyed red pheasant tail fibers
Thorax - Peacock herl

Turkey

Tail - Turkey tail fibers
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Turkey tail fibers
Wing case - Turkey tail fibers
Thorax - Peacock herl

Condor

Tail - Gray condor feather fibers
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Gray condor feather fibers
Wing case - Gray condor feather fibers
Thorax - Peacock herl

Mallard (shown) Teal, Woodduck, Widgeon, Gadwall etc

Tail - Mallard flank feather fibers (natural or dyed)
Ribbing - Copper wire
Abdomen - Mallard flank feather fibers (natural or dyed)
Wing case - Mallard flank feather fibers (natural or dyed)
Thorax - Peacock herl

 

[nfrechet]

Caddis Larva

Body - Dyed green 12 pound fly line backing
Legs - Hackle fibers
Head – Dubbing

Caddis Emerger

Body - Dyed green 12 pound fly line backing
Legs - Hackle fibers
Wing - CDC Feathers
Head - Dubbing

 

[nfrechet]

J's Kicker Frog

Hook - Mustad CK52S
Popper - Blockhead foam popper
Thread - Yellow
Kicker Legs - Hollow foam lure making floats and yellow rubber legs
Miscellaneous acrylic paint, adhesive and uv resin

From a photo on the internet

I used a different popper head than the original so i guess that makes it a variant

 

[LongLineRelease]

Woven minnows......juvenile trout series.

Sorry folks im having posting problems.

 

[LongLineRelease]

Woven minnows …….Juvenile Trout

 

[LongLineRelease]

Juvenile panfish series.....Crappie, perch, bass, shad

 

[Steeltrap]

LongLine.....I like those! Nice!

 

[afishinado]

JerryC wrote:
by Fly-Swatter on 2020/2/19 20:10:35

JerryC: Cool flies! Could you please share your gluing technique.

I'm using super glue to hold the edges together.
On these two I have a rattle wrapped on the bottom of the hook. I coat the bottom and sides of the rattle with a light coat of super glue and the head portion is slid on and held in place till the glue sets. I also coated the top and sides of the hook and rattle with UV resin. Tie on the tail material, coat one side(inside) with light coat of super glue, fold the body over the tail material and hook shank. I trim it to shape, color the body with permanent markers, add eyes and coat with UV resin. It's a variation a Yasaku style Crease Fly. I just made the gill openings larger

Here's the template and the head portion glued.

I've been seeing these hollow flies tied up a bit. I found this pic (below) just today. Interesting design. Let us know how the hollow flies fish.