What Are You Tying Today?

[6xAdams(Jones)]

Been spending a few minutes at the vise the past couple days tying a variety of flies. Here’s several. Nothing in particular.

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These are great! Glad a 3-segmented ant body is included for fish that can count 🙂. All of my flytiers only tie 2-segment ants. I'll need to gently correct them.

 

[mt_flyfisher]

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These are great! Glad a 3-segmented ant body is included for fish that can count 🙂. All of my flytiers only tie 2-segment ants. I'll need to gently correct them.

Apparently, not all ants can count either. 😃

 

[salmo]

Could be yours if you participate in the Parachute fly swap!!

#14 Biot Body Light Cahill

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I like this one a lot. When is the best time to fish it?

 

[JimNovo]

I like this one a lot. When is the best time to fish it?

I’d use it now on the Delaware system as Cahills are present. I’d also use it at the beginning of Sulphur season before those tiny Dorothea’s become the fly of choice.

 

[JMP]

My top producers this summer have been a wet ant swung along sunken structure and a tungsten bead head ant in the riffles. I tie these in three sizes with an appropriate size bead.

 

[globug15]

Butt Monkey - I just like the name

 

[Tiogadog]

Yellow Wullfs

 

[JMP]

I enjoy tying all types of flies. Attached is my attempt at the traditional Silver Invicta.

 

[nfrechet]

Deer Fly

Pop’s Recipe

Hook - Wet/dry fly
Thread - Red
Tail - Black⁠
Body - Gold Tip, Green Floss
Wings - White⁠
Hackle - White⁠

Optional⁠
Wings - Grizzly hackle tips⁠
Hackle - Grizzly or Brown⁠

Another offering for popsflies - The Deer Fly but tied with the optional grizzly hackle wing tips and grizzly hackle.

Pop, aka Harry K. Cameron (1894-1973), kept a little black notebook and a stack of index cards with 99 different hand-drawn fly patterns and their recipes. He tied these flies and fished them on the Arkansas and South Platte Rivers west of Colorado Springs, CO.⁠

Reference - Instagram

 

[JLB]

Hendrickson emerger and cdc sparkle duns

 

[nfrechet]

Foam October Caddis

Hook - Curved
Bead - Gold
Thread - Orange
Rib - Black wire
Body - Orange razor foam
Thorax - Orange straggle string
Legs - Black hen hackle or CDC
Collar - Orange ice dub

 

[nfrechet]

October Caddis Pupa

Tim Flagler

Hook - Curved
Thread - Brown
Ribbing - Copper wire
Back - Brown antron yarn
Abdomen - Amber dubbing
Wing case - Brown antron yarn
Thorax: Pheasant tail ice dub
Beard - Burnt-orange brahma hen chickabou feather or substitute

 

[nfrechet]

October Elk Hair Caddis

Hook - Dry fly
Thread - Brown
Ribbing - Gold wire
Hackle - Brown, palmered
Body - Orange dubbing
Wing - Elk Hair

 

[tomgamber]

Loving the OC versions. The dry I used to tie had multiple wing segments tied from head to tail into the body. I think I ended up using it as a salmonfly pattern.

 

[nfrechet]

Morrish Deep October Caddis Variant

Hook - Curved
Bead - Black nickel or black
Weight - .035″ lead-free wire
Thread - Black
Ribbing - Amber vinyl rib, medium
Body - Orange dubbing
Wing case - Pearl Flashabou, 8 strands
Wing - Brown hackle tips
Legs -Brown hen
Antennae - Natural pheasant tail fibers
Head - Rusty orange dubbing and black dubbing

Morrish Deep October Caddis Variant - RiverKeeper Flies (johnkreft.com)

 

[nfrechet]

October Caddis - Fox Poopah

Tim Fox

Hook - Wet fly
Bead (optional) - Copper tungsten or brass
Thread - Brown
Rib - Gold wire
Underbody - Pearl tinsel
Abdomen - Orange vernille
Legs - Brown hen
Antennae - Natural wood duck fibers
Thorax - Brown ostrich herl

 

[Kms]

Size 18 “mole fly” with four color poly yarn in place of cdc, because I don’t have any cdc

 

[nfrechet]

Matt's October Caddis

Matt Grobert

Hook - Dry fly
Thread - Orange
Body - Amber dubbing
Under wing - Amber antron yarn
Over wing - Orange elk or deer hair
Thorax - Amber dubbing

Matt's October Caddis (youtube.com)

Iris Caddis - October Caddis

Hook - Dry fly style
Thread - Orange
Shuck - Amber z-lon or antron
Abdomen - Amber dubbing
Wing - Amber, white or dun Zelon
Thorax - Brown dubbing

Shakey Bealy - October Caddis

Hook - Hopper hook
Thread - Brown
Tail - Krystal flash, amber or orange
Trailing shuck - Mallard flank feather, dyed wood duck
Ribbing - Brown uni stretch
Abdomen - Amber dubbing
Thorax - Brown dubbing
Hackle - Hungarian partridge

 

[nfrechet]

Puterbaugh Caddis Variation - October Caddis

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent
Thread - Tan
Body - 2mm orange foam strip
Wing - Elk hair
Hackle - Brown

Woodchuck Caddis - October Caddis

Hook - Dry fly
Thread - Black
Body - Orange dubbing or your choice of color to match the caddis in your area
Wing - Woodchuck hairs
Hackle - Brown & grizzly mixed

 

[Fredrick]

I'm just getting started with my tying for this year, working on some small frog patterns about 2 inches long. I haven't tied a complete fly yet. Just working on the bodies
Hook: Ahrex Predator Swim Bait hook, size 4. I also tie them on size 2 and 2/0
Body: strip of 6 mm craft foam
Legs: Silicone Spinner Bait Skirts(Sili Legs)
Eyes: Fish Skull Living Eyes, 6 or 7 mm
Belly Flash: Micro UV Polar Chenille, color to match body.
Thread: 3/0 or heavier, color to match foam
I'll also give them a coat of thin UV resin to help with floatation.
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I'll post the completed pattern when I get them tied.

How did you make out with these? Got any pics of the catches?