>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part IV

[nfrechet]

Crystal Midge

Category - Chironomids

Hook - Curved style
Bead - Silver lined glass bead, brass or tungsten beads in your choice of colors
Thread - Your favorite color
Ribbing - Copper, gold, silver wire
Body - Tying thread
Wing - Pearl crystal flash
Thorax - Dubbing, ostrich herl, peacock herl

Tie this fly in different colors of your choice

 

[nfrechet]

Tellico Nymph

Category - Nymph/Wet Fly

Hook - Wet/nymph style
Weight - Lead/non lead wire
Thread - White under floss body, finish with black
Tail - Guinea hen fibers
Shellback - Mottled turkey wing fibers, peacock tail fibers etc
Ribbing* - Peacock herl twisted with fine copper wire
Abdomen - Yellow floss or uni stretch
Hackle - Brown hen neck

*Tying Note 

A rib of fine wire or monofilament may be wrapped over the entire fly for added durability

 

[dennisl]

Bird of Prey Caddis in sizes 12 and 14.

Getting the length of the partridge collar correct is tricky when all my feathers are too big for the hook. Some turned out better than others.

 

[nfrechet]

Tom's Comprehensive

Hook - Standard dry fly
Thread - Color to approximately match the body
Ribbing - Wire
Body - Dubbing
Legs - Partridge feather fibers
Underwing - Tan antron fibers
Overwing - Partridge feather fibers

Tying Note

This is an excellent caddis emerger and can be tied in green for early summer, tan for late summer, orange for fall and black for winter.

 

[nfrechet]

Coachman

Category - Salmon, steelhead, sea trout etc

Hook - Salmon fly style
Thread - Black
Tip - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Peacock herl reinforced around a tag end of tying thread
Wing - White calf tail
Hackle - Brown hen

 

[Dave_W]

Working up some ISOs...

 

[nfrechet]

Partridge and Yellow

Hook - Wet fly style
Thread - Yellow
Body - Yellow uni stretch (sorry i'm not a purist. no silk thread)
Thorax - Hares ear
Hackle - Partridge

 

[JerryC]

New pattern I picked up attending an IFF Zoom Fly tying class taught by Jerry Coviello called the "Foam Dragon Bluegill Slayer" Mine vaguely resemble the fly Jerry showed us. These are tied on Size 4 Partridge Sea Streamer hooks. More bass fly than bluegill.

 

[Baron]

Cool stuff.

 

[nfrechet]

Ray's Red

Hook - Up eye salmon style
Thread - Orange
Tag - Rose colored yarn
Tail - Orange floss
Ribbing - Embossed silver tinsel
Wing - Red fox squirrel

I guess it gets its name from the wing material. No other "red" in the pattern.

Reference - Fly Tyer Pattern Bible (From Volume 2 - Issue 4)

 

[nfrechet]

White Lightning

Category - Salmon

Hook - Up eye salmon style
Thread - Black
Tip - Oval gold tinsel
Tag - Yellow floss or uni stretch
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Black floss or uni stretch
Throat - Orange hackle fibers
Wing - White calf tail

 

[dennisl]

Hydropsyche Caddis Larva (Ramsay) in size 14

 

[nfrechet]

GFA (General Foam Attractor) Hopper

Hook - Curved dry fly style
Thread - Tan
Underbody - Peacock herl
Body - 2mm foam - tan - shaped with cutter or scissors
Wing - Bleached elk hair
Indicator Strip - 2mm foam - pink
Legs - Medium round rubber legs - knotted if you prefer

Tie this in different colors - Olive, brown, black, green etc

Indicator strip can be pink, orange, white, yellow chartreuse etc

 

[barrybarry]

Been fishing a local lake with a lot of Cicada sounding off around the shore. Thought I'd tie some. Tied a few several years ago in orange. All the ones I've seen around my house are green and white. Tried to keep the blunt shape of the head. If I live to be a hundred I may get better at spinning deer hair. One lesson I learned about spinning deer hair is when you can't possibly add any more, add more.

 

[drakeking412]

Lately I've been trying to build a complete streamer box and I think it's about there. Patterns are Drunk Drea, Sex Dungeons, Sculpzilla, Banda Lechuga, Jigged Micro streamers two variants, Big Junk Sculpin, and some other randoms.

Also is pictured a white death variant using diamond braid rather than mylar, a 3.8mm silver bead with lead wrap body, and a tuft of marabou tail. Fur and feathers on this fly are from the UV2 series from spirit river which claims they are treated with a uv dip or something. We'll see what the fish think. With all my extra time I'm really getting ahead on the fall and winter needs. Hell I'm even mapping out spring needs on my tying tablets.

https://imgur.com/a/tPvuDFI

 

[turkey]

That streamer box is looking good Drake.

 

[drakeking412]

turkey wrote:
That streamer box is looking good Drake.

Thank you! I'm finding it tough to pick patterns though, there's just so many!

 

[nfrechet]

Olive Balloon Caddis

Hook - Dry fly style
Thread - Olive
Tail - Amber antron yarn
Ribbing - Opal mirage tinsel
Body - Olive dubbing
Wing - Bleached elk hair or  natural deer hair
Head - Olive foam
Thorax - Olive dubbing

Black Beetle

Hook - Dry fly style
Thread - Black
Back - Black foam
Body - Ice dubbing
Sighter - White foam cylinder
Legs - Black span flex

 

[nfrechet]

Chernobyl Ant Variation

MAK Variation

Hook - 3XL style
Thread - Black
Tail/Butt - Krystal flash
Underbody - Synthetic Peacock dubbing
Body - Black foam
Legs - Rubber legs
Sighter - Red, orange, hot orange antron yarn, yarn, mcflylon etc

 

[drakeking412]

I tied about all day today and I'm calling the mouse box complete. I might stuff another couple in just because I have the time and materials though. Patterns are Mr. Hankey Mini, Master Splinter, Mousey McMouseface, Mosey McMouseface Mini, and some pattern someone gave me in Montana

https://imgur.com/a/aVVq53M