What Are You Tying Today?

[bigjohn358]

A whole hodgepodge of nuts and bolts stuff this evening.... Some #16 & 18 PMD / sulphur split case nymphs and PMD CDC sparkle duns thinking about my august trip to the Bighorn River.....and then back to PA for a few #18 Blue Quills CDC sparkle duns and some smaller 13-14mm Isonychia nymphs on a swimming nymph hook.View attachment 1641229197

What material are you using for the white stripe?

 

[nfrechet]

Gold Digger

Streamer Fly

Tail – Red and yellow hackle feather, opposed
Ribbing – Red floss
Body – White chenille
Wing – White bucktail
Cheek – Jungle ****
Collar – red and yellow hackle

This streamer. fly was originally tied for rainbow trout but in a larger size took a great many bass last season, so it was dubbed the Gold Digger. Daintily dressed, it is not reminiscent of feminine pulchritude, but a deceptive siren always.

1930s (fishandboat.com) Aug 1939

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

What material are you using for the white stripe?

The naturals have a tapered "racing stripe" so I've always used stripped feather quills to get that tapered look that fades out as you go down the abdomen.
I save all my spent wood duck flank feathers that I use for nymph tails and legs on my smaller nymphs and they get repurposed as ISO stripes. 😁
Of course mallard flank or any other number of flank feathers would work.
They're just pliable enough to make them easy to work with.
Sewing thread or other uniform diameter stuff would probably work fine but I've always liked the look of the stripped quills.

 

[Jay_H]

Hi everyone,
New to the forums and relatively new to fly tying/fishing. Lots of awesome tiers here and so thankful to be able to look and learn from everyone's photos! Here are a few size 10 olive buggers I did last night. Tried to keep my tails shorter than I usually do. They might be too short, but I have missed more than a few in the past from tails that are too long.

Great looking flies!

 

[sandflyx]

lots of clousers for stock

 

[nfrechet]

Castle Rock

Atlantic Salmon

Daniel Dufour

Tag - Oval silver tinsel and pale blue floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - White ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Violet floss
Wing - White bucktail
Hackle - Black, long

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

 

[tboyer44]

Great looking flies!

Thank you!

 

[nfrechet]

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Montana Jock Scott

Originator - Unknown, 1930s

Tail - Scarlet hackle fibers
Rib - Flat gold tinsel
Body - Rear half; yellow floss, front half; black floss
Hackle - Guinea
Wing - Brown turkey over married red over yellow goose quill segments

Reference

Trout Country Flies - Bruce Staples
"Montana Jock Scott- Fly Angler's OnLine Volume 6 week 40 (flyanglersonline.com)

 

[bdhoover77]

I tried my hand at tying some wood duck heron flies, albeit with mallard flank feathers because I didn’t want to waste my actual wood duck feathers until I first tied up a few.

 

[tboyer44]

I had a little time last night. Did some size 14 Walt's Worms, green, black, and brown collars. Mixed together a little opossum with some Dark Scud and some dyed black squirrel tail for appendages. They looked buggy.

 

[nfrechet]

Kemp Bug

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Peacock herl

Ribbing - Copper wire

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown hen

Wing - Grizzly hackle tips

 

[wildtrout2]

Kemp Bug

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Peacock herl

Ribbing - Copper wire

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown hen

Wing - Grizzly hackle tips

Your flies are gorgeous!

 

[nfrechet]

thank you

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

Knocking out a couple midges this afternoon. 😂

 

[JimNovo]

Knocking out a couple midges this afternoon. 😂View attachment 1641229266View attachment 1641229264View attachment 1641229265

Size 26 I see….

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

Size 26 I see….

Ya made me do it! 😂

 

[JimNovo]

Ya made me do it! 😂View attachment 1641229269

Love it!!!! Thanks.

 

[flyguyfishing]

Kemp Bug

Winged Wet Fly

Tail - Peacock herl

Ribbing - Copper wire

Body - Peacock herl

Hackle - Brown hen

Wing - Grizzly

Castle Rock

Atlantic Salmon

Daniel Dufour

Tag - Oval silver tinsel and pale blue floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - White ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Violet floss
Wing - White bucktail
Hackle - Black, long

Modern Atlantic Salmon Flies - Paul C Marriner

You have mastered your craft. Congrats! I hope one day ya find a way to display all these…

 

[PUA]

I'll try and make this more of an annual thread. So this will be our 2023 thread.

 

[nfrechet]

You have mastered your craft. Congrats! I hope one day ya find a way to display all these…

i'm still learning even after 40+ years of tying flies