March tying contest thread and February's winner is:

[Buzzy]

Is it rigged if the judge picks himself?

My tying skills can't and don't come close to what James is showing so there's certainly NO point in me posting a Buzz's man-cave tied skwala pattern,. ;-) Amazing creativity and skills, truly great! And I love how he's able to capture them in photographs. A bit of thread drift - when I was going to college I fished the Klamath River quite often. Randall Kaufmann's "stonefly" nymphs were really effective but they took me a good hour to tie just one. I fished them with a spinning rod and split shot and of course it only took a few minutes to foul hook bottom and break off..... I wish I'd known about Pat's Rubber Legs back then.

 

[James St. Clair]

My tying skills can't and don't come close to what James is showing so there's certainly NO point in me posting a Buzz's man-cave tied skwala pattern,. ;-) Amazing creativity and skills, truly great! And I love how he's able to capture them in photographs. A bit of thread drift - when I was going to college I fished the Klamath River quite often. Randall Kaufmann's "stonefly" nymphs were really effective but they took me a good hour to tie just one. I fished them with a spinning rod and split shot and of course it only took a few minutes to foul hook bottom and break off..... I wish I'd known about Pat's Rubber Legs back then.

Let me be the "judge" of that

I only posted mine to give others ideas. I want to see cave man Skwala real bad!!!

 

[mcswny]

Let me be the "judge" of that

I only posted mine to give others ideas. I want to see cave man Skwala real bad!!!

anything with the name "cave man Skwala" is A-OK by me.

 

[Irafly]

@Kfish Excellent choice for the winner! @James St. Clair are you ready to choose a new category every other month?

 

[clarkman]

Oddly enough, I tied these up probably 7-8 years ago for green drakes. They worked better for skwalas...like really good. I'll see if I can pry myself away from streamers long enough to submit a proper entry.

 

[Divad]

Swung Skwalabala

For the tight line affectionate folk, size 12 AquaTalon hook. I haven’t fished this much on the wet side but in MT this worked wonders. Used to cut the top half of the hackle for looks but after they’re eaten a couple times half is gone anyways.

Edit: second photo added

 

[Mike Cline]

Variations on a Skwala adult

 

[Billy]

Let's get this contest really popping:

@Irafly Matt B says any Skwala you tie sucks

 

[Matt B]

Billy this morning, before his Wheaties even:

 

[Brute]

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Material purchased... I'll be christening my new bench with the Mopwala later tonight...

Are you going to listen to Dishwala when you tie that up?

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Howsabout a chubwalla aka skwanobyl

Are you in Walla Walla?...

 

[Kfish]

I'm going to start some shit by posting skwala shuck patterns

 

[TicTokCroc]

Are you in Walla Walla?...

A friend when I was 10-12 years old had access to the lower private portions of the Walla Walla River in Oregon. One summer we all went yard camping and fishing there for a week. I tied up a bunch of hoppers, wild Redbands, will probably never get access to that stuff again.

 

[Irafly]

Here are some fun ones to get the creative juices flowing!
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I was just noticing how poorly tied these nymphs are. Your abdomen sections are limited. Skwalas have 10 clear segmentations on their abdomens and you have not matched that. Do better!

Something like that @Billy ?

 

[Brute]

I was just noticing how poorly tied these nymphs are. Your abdomen sections are limited. Skwalas have 10 clear segmentations on their abdomens and you have not matched that. Do better!

Something like that @Billy ?

Are these emerging Skwalas?...asking for a friend

 

[Billy]

I was just noticing how poorly tied these nymphs are. Your abdomen sections are limited. Skwalas have 10 clear segmentations on their abdomens and you have not matched that. Do better!

Something like that @Billy ?

Going after the two time champ?

 

[TicTokCroc]

Speaking of competition, is there any way the winners can get badges in the signature line like some other sites do?
Something like this...

 

[Irafly]

Are these emerging Skwalas?...asking for a friend

Absolutely not, clearly everyone knows that Skwalas emerge on land, duh!

 

[Brute]

Absolutely not, clearly everyone knows that Skwalas emerge on land, duh!

Don’t they have to emerge from the water to emerge on land?

 

[James St. Clair]

Mop Pat's Skwala



Apologies for the crappy pics, and the fact that I combined my least favorite fly with a lot of other people's least favorite fly.

 

[TicTokCroc]

Mop Pat's Skwala
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Apologies for the crappy pics, and the fact that I combined my least favorite fly with a lot of other people's least favorite fly.

I was trying to think of a way to get the biot tails on the end of the mop and keep the movement