What Are You Tying Today?

[hooker-of-men]

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

I bought Tying Dry Flies by Randall Kaufmann -
whose stimulators and stoneflies are some of my favorite flies of all time aesthetically - this morning for a buck at a TU flea market. It has some really badass hopper patterns with this style of tied back / bullethead elk hair. I plan to play with that soon!

 

[nfrechet]

Yellowstone

Winged Wet Fly

Glen L Evans, 1920's

Tail - Black hackle
Body - Yellow chenille
Hackle - Sparse yellow hackle
Wing - Gray duck/goose quill

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

Yellowstone

Winged Wet Fly

Tip - Gold tinsel
Tail - Yellow hackle
Body - Yellow chenille
Hackle - Orange hackle
Wing - Black duck/goose quill

Perrault's Standard Dictionary of Fishing Flies - Keith Perrault

 

[KeviR]

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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It just occurred me that your ruler is wrong. It should say 5mm, not 0.5mm. Unless this is a size 68 fly.

 

[hooker-of-men]

Well, I gave it a try...

As has been said before, "It'll fish."

 

[hooker-of-men]

 

[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 then tied off ....and then wingcase is a separate tie in of tail fibers making sure that a black barring 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 win

It just occurred me that your ruler is wrong. It should say 5mm, not 0.5mm. Unless this is a size 68 fly.

It's correct....the .5mm is just showing that the smallest measure shown is .5mm
From the zero mark to the 1 is 1cm total.
Then it's broken down into mm and 1/2mm
The total fly length is about 7mm or so

 

[hooker-of-men]

 

[JMP]

First attempt at perdigon flies size 16.

 

[JMP]

Soft hackles tan, orange, and green size 16.

 

[dc410]

First attempt at perdigon flies size 16.

Nice! Fish ‘em. You’ll hook up with lots of fish on them.

 

[nfrechet]

Sid Neff Caddis

Body - Dry fly dubbing, color to match the natural

Wing - Light or dark deer or elk hair

The Caddis and The Angler - Eric Leiser and Larry Solomon

AKA Hairwing Caddis

 

[tomgamber]

Wondering if nfrechet has a running tally of how many individual patterns he's tied over the years...

 

[nfrechet]

damned if i know! 🤷‍♂️

i have never counted how many but from 1980 its probably in the thousands 😁👍

 

[nfrechet]

Pink Petuti

Damsel/Dragonfly Imitation

Pat Barnes, 1950's

Body - Green wool yarn
Hackle - Greenish ringneck pheasant feather

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Stapleton

 

[nfrechet]

Parking Lot

Damsel/Dragonfly Imitation

Randy Jones/Randy Stonebraker, 1990's

Bead - Gold brass or tungsten
Ribbing - Copper wire
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Black

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

 

[nfrechet]

Sparkle Damsel Nymph

Damsel Fly Nymph

Ross Anne, 1970's

Tail - Light olive marabou
Ribbing - Silver wire
Overbody - Pearl tinsel
Body and thorax - Light olive dubbing, picked out at thorax

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples

 

[hooker-of-men]

Hare's Ear-ish

 

[3wt7X]

Pine squirrel leeches

Zebra midges

Midge pupa

CDC and Deer hair caddis Grannom/Egg laying Grannom and tan

Baetis nymphs

Caddis larva

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

Pine squirrel leeches

Zebra midges

Midge pupa

CDC and Deer hair caddis Grannom/Egg laying Grannom and tan

Baetis nymphs

Caddis larva

My kinda tying session....all over the map! 👍😁

 

[bdhoover77]

While my wife was away on a girls trip and I was watching the kids (when they weren’t plugged in to their iPads), I spent some time tying up some olive soft hackle nymphs with a CDC collar. I tried a lighter olive and a dark olive dubbing and CDC.