What Are You Tying Today?

[nfrechet]

Coachman

Hook - Wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Brown
Wing - White duck or goose quill segments

Author's Note
Also made black tip, also scarlet tail. Also, mallard tail.

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Trout - Ray Bergman

 

[poopdeck]

Hatchmatcher

Hook - Size 12 nymph hook
Thread - White UTC 70
Tail - Mallard flank
Wing - Mallard flank
Body - Mallard flank fibers
Legs - White CDC

Needs work but it’s what I tied today

 

[hooker-of-men]

In the style of the Gonga

 

[nfrechet]

Stovepipe Nymph

Hook - 2xl streamer
Thread - Orange
Weight - .015 lead free wire
Tail - Golden pheasant tippets
Body - Peacock herl or dark olive chenille
Throat - Brown hackle fibers
Wing - Teal flank feather

 

[afishinado]

Hatchmatcher

Hook - Size 12 nymph hook
Thread - White UTC 70
Tail - Mallard flank
Wing - Mallard flank
Body - Mallard flank fibers
Legs - White CDC

Needs work but it’s what I tied today
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Very cool fly Poop. Thanks for posting.

 

[poopdeck]

Very cool fly Poop. Thanks for posting.

Thank you and you’re welcome.

 

[nfrechet]

Dark Olive Spinner

Hook - Dry fly
Thread - Black
Tails - Dark moose mane or body hairs (divided if desired)
Body - Dark olive dubbing
Wing - White poly yarn
Pennsylvania Angler & Boater Magazine
May/June 2010

Note - Article recipe is wrong for tying a spinner as it includes a bead and hackle in the recipe

 

[hooker-of-men]

Dark Olive Spinner

Hook - Dry fly
Thread - Black
Tails - Dark moose mane or body hairs (divided if desired)
Body - Dark olive dubbing
Wing - White poly yarn
Pennsylvania Angler & Boater Magazine
May/June 2010

Note - Article recipe is wrong for tying a spinner as it includes a bead and hackle in the recipe

Ha! Interesting. You should tie one with the incorrect recipe just to be comprehensive

 

[dudemanspecial]

Note - Article recipe is wrong for tying a spinner as it includes a bead and hackle in the recipe

Why would someone even consider a bead and hackle on that pattern? Like seriously?

Kudos for doing it right.

 

[sandflyx]

Some cuda flies today

 

[nfrechet]

Why would someone even consider a bead and hackle on that pattern? Like seriously?

Kudos for doing it right.

it could be a simple typo that the editor didnt catch

 

[nfrechet]

Lake Special

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tail - Fluff from a red hackle
Under body - White uni stretch, tapered
Over body - Holographic tinsel
Throat - Fluff from a red hackle
Wing - Polar bear or substitute

"Lake Special"

 

[bdhoover77]

When tying nymphs, how important do you think it is to tie in legs? I have really trouble getting the hackle fibers to sit well on small nymphs. I usually get frustrated and leave out legs when tying in the thorax on these small nymphs.

 

[dc410]

When tying nymphs, how important do you think it is to tie in legs? I have really trouble getting the hackle fibers to sit well on small nymphs. I usually get frustrated and leave out legs when tying in the thorax on these small nymphs.

Just pick out the bottom of your thorax a little bit with a dubbing needle or brush … legs!!

 

[dudemanspecial]

When tying nymphs, how important do you think it is to tie in legs? I have really trouble getting the hackle fibers to sit well on small nymphs. I usually get frustrated and leave out legs when tying in the thorax on these small nymphs.

For the fish I don't think its important at all. Look at how many patterns don't have legs. Look at these perdigon flys that are all the rage that are basically a bead and a tail. Frank Sawyers original Pheasant Tail nymph didn't have legs, only the American version does.

 

[dudemanspecial]

For the fish I don't think its important at all. Look at how many patterns don't have legs. Look at these perdigon flys that are all the rage that are basically a bead and a tail. Frank Sawyers original Pheasant Tail nymph didn't have legs, only the American version does.

Just to be clear, even though I don't think they matter to the fish........I am a leg man.

 

[mt_flyfisher]

Just pick out the bottom of your thorax a little bit with a dubbing needle or brush … legs!!

I think that’s one good suggestion. Another easy one, but costs more, is that you might consider using a couple turns or Seperfli Straggle Legs, in the appropriate color.

It’s a bit more time consuming, but I’m a fan of using dubbing loops. If you’re tying the abdomen of your nymph using natural fur, like hairs ear fur, for example, just leave lots of guard hairs in the fur, twist it tightly in a dubbing loop, wrap it around the hook, and you will end up with as many or as few “legs” as you want.

You can also use many other kinds of material in dubbing loops to simulate legs, including but by no means limited to CDC, partridge or other hackle barbules, guard hairs from a variety of furs, fine deer or other animal hair, etc.