>>>What Are You Tying Today? Part VI

[dc410]

Restocking the carp box with this carp version of Clouser’s Foxee Redd Minnow. I left a couple of these stuck in big old Mr. Rubberlips this weekend. I need to beef up on my tippet a bit. This pattern is a really good carp fly for me.

 

[hooker-of-men]

Will see if I can get one more day out of Hendricksons tomorrow.

This is how you get fishing famous, right? Drink all the bourbon and then stick some flies in it?

 

[nfrechet]

Brown Sprite

Hook - Mustad 3906B or equivalent, size 12-16
Thread - Black
Tail - Dark ginger hackle fibers
Body - Light cream poly yarn coated with head lacquer
Hackle - Dark ginger as a wet fly collar

The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser

Yellow Sprite

Hook - Mustad 3906B or equivalent, size 12-16
Thread - Black
Tail - Dark ginger hackle fibers
Body - Yellow poly yarn coated with head lacquer
Hackle - Dark ginger as a wet fly collar

 

[dc410]

Time to spin up a few extra mulberry flies for the carp box because the “mulberry hatch” is just around the corner. This is my deer hair mulberry fly tied on a size 10 hook.

 

[nfrechet]

Marston's Fancy

Tail - Dark gray
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Dark gray

Trout - Ray Bergman

 

[Dave_W]

Crabs!
Getting ready for a trip to the Keys. . .

 

[JimNovo]

Some Pheasant Tails to donate to Casting for Recovery.

 

[McSneek]

Some Pheasant Tails to donate to Casting for Recovery.

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Very nice Jim. I’m impressed with the uniformity of your flies.

 

[nfrechet]

Hawthorne

Body - Black floss
Hackle - Black mixed with light claret
Wing - Black
Trout - Ray Bergman

The "Just Fishing" (Ray Bergman) version of the Hawthorne has a gold tinsel tip and a body of black floss with the front 1/3 of black dubbing

 

[Schaefer406]

Some caddis green PT from today.

Fulling mill Sz 16 jig force
Firehole caddis green 3.0mm beads

 

[Jay_H]

RS2
Size 20
Microfibbet tail
Superfine dubbing
CDC Puff

 

[Tigereye]

Time to spin up a few extra mulberry flies for the carp box because the “mulberry hatch” is just around the corner. This is my deer hair mulberry fly tied on a size 10 hook.

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The mulberry tree in my yard took a big hit from a heavy frost a couple weeks ago. All the leaves turned brown and fell off. Just now starting to bud out again. Dont have much hope for berries this year. Alittle rain would help it along.

Hope the hatch is better in ypur neck of woods

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

Some caddis green PT from today.

Fulling mill Sz 16 jig force
Firehole caddis green 3.0mm beads

Can't... Look... Away... Hypnotic...

 

[Schaefer406]

Can't... Look... Away... Hypnotic...

I call these trout crack (or candy - but I think crack is a bit more fitting). Give them a try!

 

[nfrechet]

Stickleback

Roderick Haig-Brown

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Claret hackle fibers
Rib - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Pale green or blue silk or wool
Throat - Claret hackle

Wing - Polar bear* (or substitute), sparse, blended orange, blue, green, yellow, olive
*Polar bear in white is hard to find these days let alone dyed colors. I substituted with bucktail

Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner

 

[Roofin' Trouter]

Some caddis green PT from today.

Fulling mill Sz 16 jig force
Firehole caddis green 3.0mm beads

How do you like Firehole beads? How much abuse wear and tear can they take before the paint starts chipping?

 

[Schaefer406]

How do you like Firehole beads? How much abuse wear and tear can they take before the paint starts chipping?

I have never had a problem with them. The only firehole bead I really buy is just these caddis green ones! I think the PT would break or get chewed up before the bead goes bad.

 

[nfrechet]

Besure

This fly was invented by Robert Chaisson, a guide living in Cheticamp, NS.

It is a simple pattern that works well on most of the rivers of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Red
Tip - Oval silver tinsel
Tag - Pink floss
Body - Bright green wool
Rib - Oval silver tinsel
Wing - Gray Squirrel
Hackle - Bright green hackle wound as a collar

 

[nfrechet]

Flying Ant

Hook - Mustad 94840

Thread - Black

Body - Tying thread (coat with head cement or uv resin)

Wings - White hackle tips

Legs - Brown or black hackle

 

[hooker-of-men]

Well, it'll certainly float. I just have to cast it with an 8 wt...