>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part V

[hooker-of-men]

I'm not proud... or tired...

 

[Steeltrap]

*The Blue Jay feathers in your local wooded area or backyard are illegal to use.

Two Hundred Popular Flies - Tom Stewart

How would anyone know if you got blue jay feathers from your back yard or from a supply house?

 

[salmo]

How would anyone know if you got blue jay feathers from your back yard or from a supply house?

DNA after the execution of the search warrant

 

[JimNovo]

DNA after the execution of the search warrant

And that is what I would expect from our government as a good use of my tax dollars.
DNA sequencing of PA Blue Jays to arrest a guy tying flies that value less than 1 dollar! God Bless America!!!!

(Dear IRS: Note sarcasm….)

 

[hooker-of-men]

A bit of a funky Kaufmann's. I vividly remember the first time I purchased some of these, and I thought: "Now that's a fly I will always buy."

It just seemed to have so much going on. I'm happy to even roughly get it.

 

[WWKimba]

How would anyone know if you got blue jay feathers from your back yard or from a supply house?

I hate to stand up for government red tape but the jay feathers you'd buy would be from the Eurasian Jay - not native to the US and are legally harvested and can be sold in the US. The feather is similar to, but not the same as the US's blue jay.

Kim

 

[Steeltrap]

I hate to stand up for government red tape but the jay feathers you'd buy would be from the Eurasian Jay - not native to the US and are legally harvested and can be sold in the US. The feather is similar to, but not the same as the US's blue jay.

Kim

I've never tied anything with a Blue Jay's feather. I made the post out of curiosity more than anything else. I would suppose it's not legal to pick up a dead Blue Jay's carcass from....wherever one may find such a thing....and use those feathers for tying? Protected birds are that for a reason.

 

[sgrim]

I'm not proud... or tired...


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@hooker-of-men Just want to give props for the low key Arlo Guthrie reference... Alice's Restaurant is a Thanksgiving staple.

 

[WWKimba]

I've never tied anything with a Blue Jay's feather. I made the post out of curiosity more than anything else. I would suppose it's not legal to pick up a dead Blue Jay's carcass from....wherever one may find such a thing....and use those feathers for tying? Protected birds are that for a reason.

YEP!

 

[dc410]

Size 14 Metallic caddis larva

 

[Dave_W]

Some small nymphs for the colder months. . .

 

[Tigereye]

Great fly. Love to fish, hate to tie them. My most troublesome tie. Welcome to the forum

 

[JeremyW]

Great fly. Love to fish, hate to tie them. My most troublesome tie. Welcome to the forum

I find the parachute adams a little more difficult to get right.

 

[JeremyW]

Wulff...

 

[JeremyW]

Ken's cupboard ant.

 

[hooker-of-men]

I like this Craven baetis pattern, but I don't really have any of the exact materials. Maybe this is a Juju John?

 

[hooker-of-men]

 

[acesedgley]

I never tried to post fly pics, but with my retirement pending 12/31 I may have to get with the program!
Keep em coming everyone.

 

[acesedgley]

 

[JimNovo]

Trying some Perdigons.
Gotta love UV Epoxy and Sally Hanson black nail polish!!