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Fly Tying
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EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Cool- those are some wild lizard eyes.
They do look pretty neat and set a fly off. Gotta order some. These came with the preformed masks. Seen them listed as dragon eyes in a few places.
Tied a few more deer hair poppers the other day.
Beautiful!
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Nice work Mark! The season is coming to a close, so I will have to inventory the boxes and spend some time at the vise soon.
Thanks a bunch! Enjoy the tying!
Ours is getting closer to starting up. It is usually far too hot in the summer. Been focusing on warm water species. But the temps and water temps are starting the lower a little bit so I'll be tying and fishing for trout again shortly. I've gone a little overboard collecting different hackles for dries and soft hackle flies haha. I still haven't tied a traditional dry doh! Hoping to change that very soon.
Also going to take a stab at building a few rods in the near future. Dropped off one to a local builder just today and he was kind enough to give me some instruction and sold me a wrapping stand/thread carriage. Very excited to try my hand at tying dries as well as the rod building!
You gents are making me want to learn to fly fish! I live in quite possibly the best part of the world for it: Michigan!
First dry flies I have ever tied! Excited to try some more patterns out!
Dude, I ain't trying to be nice when I say you could sell those. VERY well done!
Haha thanks! Pictures can hide a multitude of mistakes haha.
Tied some other elk hair caddis this afternoon and one other dry. Going to take some practice getting the proportions right but it is a start.
I can tell you that one on the bottom would fool me!
Thanks! I'm sure I'm being much more picky than the fish will
.Tied some more when the kiddo was napping. Getting the hang of the elk hair caddis I think. Also tied my first two adams dries.
Tied some more elk hair caddis flies this afternoon. This time in some different color variations.
EB Newfarm
Cane? I'm Able!
Great work, love to see dry flies! I think an adams and an EHC would see me through 90% of my dry fly fishing. I tried smaller (16 and 18) sized caddis this year and had great results. I have not been on the vise much lately, but during winter I will have to fill all the spaces in my boxes after the ones I sent into the trees this year.
Thanks a bunch! The elk hair caddis is by far my favorite dry. I like the adams and blue wing olive as well. Kinda scared to tie them down to 18 haha. Locally I tend to stick to 12-18. Probably 14 the most.
Some recent ties. Slowly getting there lol.
Some more simple yarn body flies for my tenkara stuff.
