What Are You Tying Today?

[nfrechet]

Baler Hopper

Hopper Pattern

John Foust, 1980's

Tail - Red hackle fibers
Ribbing - Brown hackle, trimmed
Body - Yellow foam
Wing - Mottled fly sheet
Legs - Orange baler cord, knotted*
Head and over wing - Elk hair

*I do not have baler cord and will not buy a 20,000-foot roll for just a few flies.

I substituted orange antron yarn.

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

 

[nfrechet]

Stone

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Blue-gray
Ribbing - Yellow silk
Body - Blue-gray fur
Hackle - Blue-gray
Wing - Light gray turkey

Reference

Trout - Ray Bergman
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

 

[hooker-of-men]

Chernobyls, chub Chernobyls, and a quick zonker at a fly tying social tonight.

 

[nfrechet]

Undertaker

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Black and white
Body - White wool
Hackle - Black
Wing - White and black

Reference

Trout - Ray Bergman
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

 

[nfrechet]

Bright Fox

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Brown hackle
Body - Yellow floss
Hackle - Brown
Wing - White

Reference

Trout - Ray Bergman
Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

 

[barrybarry]

WMD Ant-Sz-16. Rainbow Warrior- Sz-18. Never fished either of these patterns before. Looking forward to trying them out. Putting a silver chrome bead on a size 18 hook is why I drink more than I should.

 

[JimNovo]

Putting a silver chrome bead on a size 18 hook is why I drink more than I should.

It sure helps you focus…for awhile.
Remember..it’s the center bead yay are targeting!😵‍💫

 

[Flylife]

Early season smallies .

Nice Terry,
Where did you get the barred rubber legs.
I just received an order with rubber legs which all have a colored fleck in them.
Thank You !

 

[salmo]

scuds
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I really like that one. What size is it?

 

[salmo]

WMD Ant-Sz-16. Rainbow Warrior- Sz-18. Never fished either of these patterns before. Looking forward to trying them out. Putting a silver chrome bead on a size 18 hook is why I drink more than I should.
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Ha ha.

 

[Terry Murphy]

Nice Terry,
Where did you get the barred rubber legs.
I just received an order with rubber legs which all have a colored fleck in them.
Thank You !

Dakota Angler stocks them .
Thanks

 

[silverfox]

I really like that one. What size is it?

That's a size 20 from Firehole, so it's more like an 18.

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

Garden variety olive pheasant tail Baetis nymphs.
It's time. 😁

Tiemco 3761 #18
Olive dyed pheasant tail
UTC small olive wire
Semperfli 18/0 nano (olive)
Hareline micro fine BWO gray/olive dub thorax.

 

[nfrechet]

Condor

Soft hackle

Dwight Thornton, 1980's

Body - Condor quill barb*
Hackle - Starling

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

*I used actual condor quill barb but gray goose or swan are acceptable substitutes. Back in the 1980's it was readily available.

 

[nfrechet]

Cutthroat

Winged Wet Fly

Glen L Evans, 1930's

Tail - Black hackle fibers
Body - Red chenille
Hackle - Black
Wing - White duck/goose quill

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples
The Fisherman's Handbook of Trout Flies - Donald Du Bois

 

[nfrechet]

Big Trout

Winged Wet Fly

Jack Boehme, 1930's

Tail - Brown mallard
Body - 1 each stripped yellow and brown hackle stem
Hackle - Grizzly
Wing - Gray duck quill

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

 

[salmo]

Garden variety olive pheasant tail Baetis nymphs.
It's time. 😁

Tiemco 3761 #18
Olive dyed pheasant tail
UTC small olive wire
Semperfli 18/0 nano (olive)
Hareline micro fine BWO gray/olive dub thorax.

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Unweighted?

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

Unweighted?

Correct.... unweighted.

 

[salmo]

Garden variety olive pheasant tail Baetis nymphs.
It's time. 😁

Tiemco 3761 #18
Olive dyed pheasant tail
UTC small olive wire
Semperfli 18/0 nano (olive)
Hareline micro fine BWO gray/olive dub thorax.

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So, do you ever epoxy the wing case?

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

So, do you ever epoxy the wing case?

Nope..... never. Just a little head cement on the thread and if it gets a bit into the wingcase fibers at the tie in point that's fine.
They're durable little guys with the counter wrapped abdomen and then opposite wrapped wire, and quick to tie so if one dies an honorable death you don't mourn very long LOL.
Unless you get heavy handed with the hemostats they stay together pretty nicely.

The little detail trick in tying the wingcase is that the abdomen is one small 3 strand twisted bundle of tail fibers wrapped and tied off ....and then wingcase is a separate tie in of 5-6 tail fibers making sure that a solid black barred section is going to be the wingcase. The dark wingcase is important so I don't just randomly tie in tail fibers at any point...always so when you flip that wingcase over flat and anchor it ,it's a solid patch of dark fibers.
You could even use goose quill at this point but I like keeping it basically all pheasant tail and that black barring makes for a darker more pronounced wingcase.