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