Nice to see you posting flies again after a break. Your ties and pictures are always top notch.
Thanks a bunch SHDNice to see you posting flies again after a break. Your ties and pictures are always top notch.
Cool looking material! And I like the color gradient. Looks tough to tie in without getting too bushy though.A couple small clousers with Icelandic sheep to test out. Admittedly this successful pattern doesn’t appeal to me for whatever reason, which will motivate some variations to come.
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The winter SRC box is almost full. Maybe some chartreuse wetflys and a few more baitfish.
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I'm liking those black and blue ones in the SRC box!A couple small clousers with Icelandic sheep to test out. Admittedly this successful pattern doesn’t appeal to me for whatever reason, which will motivate some variations to come.
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The winter SRC box is almost full. Maybe some chartreuse wetflys and a few more baitfish.
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, indeed on the bushy aspect, especially since it seems to work as the opposite of “a little goes a long ways.” Saw the material in a swim tank and I was hooked. Was told to tie in a little more than a bucktail variant to create the effect.Cool looking material! And I like the color gradient. Looks tough to tie in without getting too bushy though.
Just a fyi, the folks at Blue Ribbon use orange ice dub.For the BRF swap - Shakey Bealy. The burnt orange dubbing i used for thorax came out a bit muted, I think I'll brighten it up a bit to reflect original intent.
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The way I have always done those seems to make it quite easy and perhaps you have already figured it out but allow me to mention. After the tails and body materials are tied in bring the thread to the front and tie off. Rotate the vice until the hook eye is pointing directly at you. Grasp one strand of body material in each hand and weave the body without letting go of either or switching hands. One over, cross materials, one under, cross materials and so on until the desired body length is achieved. Reattach thread and tie them both off. Also I have always found the results most pleasant when using materials that have a little fuzz to them like yarns or chenille rather than floss or such.Somewhere in my mind I can see a skwala, but not quite there yet. One bad weave really shows. Sz. 8.
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