What's in your vise?
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singlehandjay
Life of the Party
Hang on man!!!
If I decide to brave the heat and the crowds to do battle with the pinks I’ll be throwing one of these.
The venerable pink over white craft fur clouser that I used to use when I chased the pinks regularly. Hook is a #4 TMC 811S with 5/32 Real Eyes.
I still suck at photographing flies in the vise.
The venerable pink over white craft fur clouser that I used to use when I chased the pinks regularly. Hook is a #4 TMC 811S with 5/32 Real Eyes.
I still suck at photographing flies in the vise.
CanoeGuy
Steelhead
Thanks. Funny you should mention tuna - it is based on one of Nick's tuna patterns. I have been tying it in different colors on a size 1 gama bait hook for tuna. This one is on a size 4 Loop tube fly hook. I bought a couple packs to hit a free shipping limit and am very pleased with them. One tuna version is white/chartruese/blue and othe other:
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Fabulous work. I also dig the different backgrounds.
Nice....I can confirm, those work very very well.
I've been wanting to tie some of these up for a while. Really like the look of em.
Jack Devlin
Life of the Party
Knouff Lake Special. 
Tiny winter nymphs. And yea, I’ll pinch the barb…soon as I find my reading glasses.
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My buddy @Engee went up to a well known BC lake this spring, after a slow start he had some superb chironomid fishing. Long leaded, no bobber and what the DA (at first) called a cucumber midge. That same fly, more well known as a zucchini midge, produced fish for me on Leighton Lake. Bobber down.
TicTokCroc
Sunkist and Sudafed
That dime is the size of a coffee plate
Jokes on us. It truely is a dinner plate that looks like a dime. That's a size 10 fly.
Just a suggestion if I may. Consider using a loop rather than snelling the stinger hook. That way if the hook gets dinged you can change it and don’t have to toss an otherwise perfectly good fly with lots of fishing life left in it.
SF
Thanks, I welcome the suggestions! The first iterations I tied up and fished I looped using a coated wire, can't remember which brand and I had some skinning or delaminating of coating, probably hitting beach on backcast when tired, as well as what seemed to me some bending/memory on underlying wire. Issues to be concerned about or not so much? Since I'm still in the learning exploration phase of these patterns I thought I'd goof around with some scrap Lazar line (40lb running line) I had laying around and liked the color.
What material do you like (and the group) for looping stingers, in saltwater?
What material do you like (and the group) for looping stingers, in saltwater?
Scottp
Legend
Muddled Shades of Green
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 chartreuse
tail - pheasant neck feather dyed olive
rib - small wire olive
body - H2O Twist tan (doubled)
hackle - dark ginger/olive
shoulder - sharptail grouse dyed chartreuse (1 Tbs Rit Neon Yellow/1 cup water)
collar/head - caribou hair dyed chartreuse
Regards,
Scott
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 chartreuse
tail - pheasant neck feather dyed olive
rib - small wire olive
body - H2O Twist tan (doubled)
hackle - dark ginger/olive
shoulder - sharptail grouse dyed chartreuse (1 Tbs Rit Neon Yellow/1 cup water)
collar/head - caribou hair dyed chartreuse
Regards,
Scott
