What Are You Tying Today?

[lprudente]

that looks fairly easy to do. yours looks excellent!
guess i've found a use for the pack of larvae lace i've had for all these years.

Appreciate it lars. Good luck and hope it works for you.

 

[JimNovo]

Thanks. Don't have the original packaging on the tubing, it was a larva lace assortment I bought years ago. I'd say medium size, it slips over a small sewing needle nicely. Here are a few links that helped me:

Video: How to Create an Easy Extended Body - Orvis News

You may have seen mayfly patterns with extended bodies and wondered, “How do they do that?” It looks complicated and scary, but in this video, Tim explains a simple method that uses a standard sewing needle and a piece of stretch tubing. You’ll be . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Extended-Body Isonychia Parachute - Orvis News

In this latest how-to video from Tightline Productions, Tim Flagler shows you how to make an elegant, extended-body version of the classic Iso Parachute. Extended bodies look difficult to make, but Tim shows you how–with a . . .

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I need to go find some tubing!
Beautiful flies!

 

[dc410]

Looking at the temps on the extended forecast, I’m banking on the carp bite kicking into gear! Tying up a great carpin’ pattern tonight. Russ Madin’s Carp Charlie. Tied on a size 6 Daiichi 1530 hook.

 

[lars]

Appreciate it lars. Good luck and hope it works for you.

ok, attempt at a cornuta version

 

[lprudente]

ok, attempt at a cornuta version
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Yessir, looking good lars!

 

[lars]

Yessir, looking good lars!

thanks, i don't really have the correct hooks, but i just wanted to try the extended body.

 

[tomgamber]

thanks, i don't really have the correct hooks, but i just wanted to try the extended body.

Until it works. Then thats how its tied.

 

[BruceC2C]

#22 Caddis Larva
Flagler Credit

 

[sandflyx]

what happens when water gets in the tubing.

 

[lars]

what happens when water gets in the tubing.

not sure, i was wondering the same.

 

[lprudente]

what happens when water gets in the tubing.

Good question- maybe burning the end shut before tying on the tail would work?

 

[lars]

Good question- maybe burning the end shut before tying on the tail would work?

i actually tied mine using the pointed end of the needle as the tail and as such tried to taper down the
tube and close it up a bit.

 

[albatross]

#22 Caddis Larva
Flagler Credit

@BruceC2C , are those glass beads on the caddis larvae?

 

[BruceC2C]

Yes, they r glass beads.
Purchased from Blue Quill Angler
X small, "Oil Slick"

 

[tomgamber]

i actually tied mine using the pointed end of the needle as the tail and as such tried to taper down the
tube and close it up a bit.

I remember placing the business end of a snapped off bodkin in the vice, tying the tail onto the bodkin. Putting flex-i-ment on something on the dubbing to firm it up, then slide it off the bodkin and tying the tail onto the hook. Sort of like above. I didnt tie a ton of these but I was in my younger experimental stage so it was fun. I'd tie some tails then build whole flies later.

 

[blitzinstripes]

Tying some little tan scuds. Confession.....there are a few patterns I actually prefer to tie on the cheap little eagle claw gold salmon egg hooks and this is one of them. (Mash the barbs.) I tie some egg patterns and occasionally some other stuff on these hooks as well. These are called a size 10, but they're really comparable to a common size 16 scud hook in size. I've always liked the little bit of flash with gold hooks, and I like cheap hooks for patterns that I use and abuse and tie by the dozens. Anyhow this is a very simple little scud pattern. Tiny piece of UV orange glo bug yarn tucked under the wire rib on the back for that little egg sack (or sometimes a virus) that the little scuds often get. I like a coarser natural hares ears dubbing with a lot of spikey guard hairs. This batch was not quite as buggy as I like. Time to buy more dubbing. Anyhow it's super simple, thread, dubbing, wire rib, little orange hot spot on the back, and UV resin. It'll catch fish all day. And I can crank one out in under two minutes. Forgive my photography skills, too. 😁

 

[blitzinstripes]

Now to refill my midge box. 🙂

 

[BruceC2C]

Tying some little tan scuds. Confession.....there are a few patterns I actually prefer to tie on the cheap little eagle claw gold salmon egg hooks and this is one of them. (Mash the barbs.) I tie some egg patterns and occasionally some other stuff on these hooks as well. These are called a size 10, but they're really comparable to a common size 16 scud hook in size. I've always liked the little bit of flash with gold hooks, and I like cheap hooks for patterns that I use and abuse and tie by the dozens. Anyhow this is a very simple little scud pattern. Tiny piece of UV orange glo bug yarn tucked under the wire rib on the back for that little egg sack (or sometimes a virus) that the little scuds often get. I like a coarser natural hares ears dubbing with a lot of spikey guard hairs. This batch was not quite as buggy as I like. Time to buy more dubbing. Anyhow it's super simple, thread, dubbing, wire rib, little orange hot spot on the back, and UV resin. It'll catch fish all day. And I can crank one out in under two minutes. Forgive my photography skills, too. 😁

Very scudly looking.
Nice work!

 

[phiendWMD]

Think I'm gonna work on Catskill style for the next couple days.

 

[JimNovo]

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Think I'm gonna work on Catskill style for the next couple days.

Keep at it. Hackling isn’t easy especially when you need to use 2 feathers.