What's in your vise?

[Zak]

I've got that book, Zak. I think we have talked about it before. Some interesting flies there. There are a few fore-and-aft hackled patterns popular in that part of the Country. I fish the Arizona Peacok Lady and the Apache Peacock Lady in AZ.

We did talk about that book on the old site! "Willie D.," who is mentioned in that book (turkey tail caddis), gave me my first fly and opened my eyes to fly tying. I first learned to fly fish in the rios north of Santa Fe. Bought my first real fly rod at High Desert Angler.

 

[Scottp]

Craven’s Screaming Banshee

Sides and front aren’t quite the same length but I got the spread right. Here’s Charlie’s video if you’re interested.

hook - WFC Model 11 #12
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
abdomen - medium tinsel opal
shellback - yearling elk
thorax - Starburst dubbing tan
wing(s) - yearling elk

Regards,
Scott

 

[Tom Butler]

Agerhonen-ish. I'll wait for different conditions before I work up lighter weight versions. 3 hares ear and partridge hackle sections. There was no gold wire in the global fly fisher video I watched. I often leave the hackle tips on my jigged versions too, but there it's on the bottom when it turns over. Should be a good anchor fly for swinging multifly rigs with the regular single hand rod in winter water. 10 3xl.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Black Demon
(Cains River Series)

Created by C. Jim Pray
Hook - Mustad 3665A
Thread - Black
Tail - Two sections of a barred wood duck feather
Body - Medium flat gold/silver tinsel
Wing - Four jet black saddle hackles
Cheeks - Jungle cock
Collar - Several turns of an orange saddle hackle

 

[Norm Frechette]

Spruce Variant

Hook – Single Salmon
Thread – Wine/red
Tip - Copper tinsel
Body - Red tinsel
Veiling - Golden pheasant tippet
Thorax - Peacock herl
Wing - Yellow-dyed squirrel tail
Hackle – Brown hen

From internet photo

 

[SRC&Bassbum]

 

[Crawbugger]

Depleted Uranium, from Fly Patterns of Northern New Mexico. Double wrapped 0.25 nonlead covered with peacock heel, undersized brown and grizzly hackle aft and fore. Should have gone a size smaller on the aft hackle.
View attachment 49064

Rio Grande Slayer.

 

[Tom Butler]

Just messin' around. Found this page by Martin Joergensen on the march brown . I think he likes hares ear and partridge as much as I do. My wet fly wings suck, I resorted to pheasant. Not sure if the imitation wood duck is too long or full, but I'll fish it anyways. Sz. 5.

 

[SpeyrodGB]

Just messin' around. Found this page by Martin Joergensen on the march brown . I think he likes hares ear and partridge as much as I do. My wet fly wings suck, I resorted to pheasant. Not sure if the imitation wood duck is too long or full, but I'll fish it anyways. Sz. 5. View attachment 49136

That will work just fine.

 

[Scottp]

H+F Hopper

Added a body hackle and shoulder for no specific reason, since the original floated just fine. These are a good bit more involved than the Wiese Bob Hopper 2.0, but they’re also fun to tie and a Carnage body October Caddis version is probably my favorite fly for east-side westslopes.

hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
tail - yarn gold
body - Starburst dubbing tan
hackle - ginger
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing/lip - 2mm foam tan
collar - deer hair

Regards,
Scott

 

[Tom Butler]

Someday I'll have to have someone teach me to set wings. Watched several videos and tried a half dozen times on this one, but they always come apart. Frustrating.

 

[FinLuver]

Someday I'll have to have someone teach me to set wings. Watched several videos and tried a half dozen times on this one, but they always come apart. Frustrating. View attachment 49179

That’s how they look after the first couple of fish.
I wouldn’t sweat it.
Maybe try to get them to lay down along the back more.

 

[clarkman]

Someday I'll have to have someone teach me to set wings. Watched several videos and tried a half dozen times on this one, but they always come apart. Frustrating. View attachment 49179

srsly, what @FinLuver said....

that looks buggy as shit!

 

[clarkman]

another steelhead stripper. "after dark" PrimoTail for the back end, some flash in the middle, cotton candy Titan dubbed head reverse bullet tied on a size 1 Ahrex TP605.

Cheers!

 

[Zak]

Just messin' around. Found this page by Martin Joergensen on the march brown . I think he likes hares ear and partridge as much as I do. My wet fly wings suck, I resorted to pheasant. Not sure if the imitation wood duck is too long or full, but I'll fish it

Someday I'll have to have someone teach me to set wings. Watched several videos and tried a half dozen times on this one, but they always come apart. Frustrating. View attachment 49179

Dave Hughes says they just turn into a bunch of fibers anyway, so he often tries in a bunch of fibers. A well set wing is pretty, though.

 

[MillCreekMinnow]

another steelhead stripper. "after dark" PrimoTail for the back end, some flash in the middle, cotton candy Titan dubbed head reverse bullet tied on a size 1 Ahrex TP605.

Cheers!

Let me know when you finish it.....

 

[clarkman]

Let me know when you finish it.....

ain't no eyes goin' on there

Ok ok, I finished it....

Oh wait that's a new one....

 

[Norm Frechette]

Olive Gun

Hook - Single Salmon
Thread - Olive
Tail - Black yarn
Ribbing - Silver tinsel
Body - Dark olive floss & peacock herl
Hackle - Guinea

From internet website

 

[SculpinSwinger]

@clarkman what kind of action are you looking for in a steelhead stripper?
I have caught a few on the strip, most of them I felt on the swing and hang down. I stripped back at about the pace the fly was swinging when they were pulling on it. I have had them eat on strip 4 of a fairly quick, but actively fished retrieve from hang down. And I have toyed with a few with erratic short strips and pauses until they ate.

 

[Tom Butler]

That’s how they look after the first couple of fish.
I wouldn’t sweat it.
Maybe try to get them to lay down along the back more.

srsly, what @FinLuver said....

that looks buggy as shit!

Dave Hughes says they just turn into a bunch of fibers anyway, so he often tries in a bunch of fibers. A well set wing is pretty, though.

Thanks guys, I was so frustrated yesterday. I know that's Dave's feeling on wings, and I've been using fibers for about 15 years since reading that and it works, but........ As a tier I would like to be able to do it. Setting wings, and getting a proper wing case, not to short, not to long, not a few fibers pulled over on top, are still things I'd like to get good at instead of working around.