Tied these up last night.
This one was from a few months ago. I forgot to add it here.
This one was from a few months ago. I forgot to add it here.
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Fly Tying
- Thread starter SoDakDom
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Thanks
. I've used a little of both. No difference in tying and fishing for me really. I crimp the barbs on on all my hooks anyway 
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Nice flies, Mark. Does the minnow have a skull or is it all UV resin? The giant eye is cool.
Uv resin for the head. Its a baby fat minnow with some substitutions. The tail is marabou, the red gill is sparkle scrubby yarn from a hobby shop, the green back and white belly are brushed out acrylic yarn. Turned out pretty neat. Hoping to tie alot more streamers this coming year
Same pattern as before. This time size 14.
Made up a dubbing brush maker recently and have been tinkering with it and experimenting with a couple flies.
Tie that in a hot Coral with a few strips of red Crystal Flash on the sides and the Steelhead would be fighting over it in a river I fish. I use to tie a red Crystal Flash streamer, without eyes, on a #8 Tiemco. A trout magnet in big fast water.
Neat! No stealhead in my area sadly. Wish I had some other colors in this haha. It is some leftover fake hair from when my wife was in cosmetology school years ago
. I have some other stuff that may work ok but it is a bit more relaxed and less wirey.
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
I have been working on extended body mayflies. Here is a big Hex pattern to be used in the dark of night next June.
Some from last night. Guess I eas in a tying mood haha.
Two from last night. Having fun figuring out these dubbing brushes.
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Looking good!
Thanks! I really like how the second one turned out. Still figuring out about them. Experimenting with proportions, materials, arrangement, and density of the material. Fun stuff!
Flies from today.
A couple more from tonight.
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Nice work, Mark. I always have to mess around a lot with the biots on a prince to get them to look right. Can't argue with how well they work though, so it is worth it. Your box is filling up! I've been doing midges today. Size 22-26.
The prince has been the most effective nymph I've used since starting to fly fish. It still makes up a large portion of the nymphs in my box
. I have had issues with the biots before in the past as well but this lot went pretty smoothly. Surprisingly so haha. I even got to tying the biots on in pairs which sped things up alot. I am currently tying to fill a small fly box for a previous customer of my father and I. A while back we wired up his garage and talked fly fishing quite a bit. He gave us all the materials and literature he had for tying. He wasn't able physically to tie anymore. He asked for a few gold ribbed hares ear nymphs in return. I admittedly had forgotten about it for a little while after getting busy (a 2 yr old will do that
). I figured I could do better than just a couple nymphs so I'm filling him a small fly box as a gift . I have 16 more to finish one side. Then on to the other side. The other will go by a little faster. I'm going to put some small streamers and topwater flies.
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Very nice! Been meaning to try that. How did you strip the herl?
I finished up another row of my box. Only a few left on this side.
