Zak
Legend
Nice job on the wings!
What's in your vise?
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Copper and ASB
Anti-Static Bag
Hook - Curved
Bead - Copper brass or tungsten
Thread - White
Breathers - White uni stretch
Ribbing - Copper wire
Body - Tying thread and a strip of anti-static bag
Hot spots - Red or orange marker
GMC
Gun Metal Chironomid
Hook - Curved
Bead - Black nickel brass or tungsten
Thread - Black
Breathers - White uni stretch
Ribbing - Red wire
Body - Gun metal flashabou #6916
When you can make chironomids look that sexy, it means you're good.
Copper and ASB
Anti-Static Bag
Hook - Curved
Bead - Copper brass or tungsten
Thread - White
Breathers - White uni stretch
Ribbing - Copper wire
Body - Tying thread and a strip of anti-static bag
Hot spots - Red or orange marker
Your precision is truly impressive, on all your patterns. Simplicity turned art!
Rusty Nail
John Kent
Hook - Curved
Bead - Copper colored brass or tung
Thread - Wine/red
Breathers - Midge Gill yarn
Rib - Wine/red wire
Body - Mirage tinsel
Variation
Hook - Curved
Bead - White brass or tungsten
Thread - Wine/red
Rib - Wine/red wire
Body - Mirage tinsel
Up in Smoke
Hook - Curved
Bead - White brass or tungsten
Thread - White
Ribbing - Red wire
Body - Anti static bag strip
Hot spot - Orange/rust color marker
Blows me away that you're tying these one handed, that ice dub color within the hackle is really a nice bit of pop.Grey Drake Crippler
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 rusty dun
tag - medium tinsel opal
rib - brassie wire brown
body - Ice Dub hare’s ear
hackle - dun
1st shoulder - chukar partridge dun body
2nd shoulder - partridge
Regards,
Scott
Question for you Scottp if you don't mind. Your hackle work, both palmered and collared etc., always maintains a nice convex shape from front to back, is there a trick or method to that which is easily explained? I sometimes achieve that and more often don't and am really not sure why I get one result or the other.Grey Drake Crippler
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 rusty dun
tag - medium tinsel opal
rib - brassie wire brown
body - Ice Dub hare’s ear
hackle - dun
1st shoulder - chukar partridge dun body
2nd shoulder - partridge
Regards,
Scott
Scottp
Legend
Thanks. Body hackle on the muddlers, Cripplers, Octopuses, Stimulators and other flies are palmered shiny side out, front to back. I try to wiggle the rib through, moving forward and trying to trap as few fibers as possible then give everything a good scrubbing with a Velcro brush, stroking the hackle to the rear of the fly. For shoulders and collars, I grasp the feather by the tip, stroke the fibers back, then run my scissors blade along the stem, tie it in by the tip and wrap with moistened fingers to get the feather to lay properly; it doesn’t always work (some stuff like golden pheasant red and gold body feathers, chukar and especially waterfowl can be a pain to keep in line) but usually it comes out okay. Like everything else, a little practice helps.
I can use both hands tying, just limited in what the right can do; had to adjust height/orientation of tying station to accommodate decreased range of motion I currently have
Regards,
Scott
Scottp
Legend
You bet. Best advice I can give is watch videos by guys like Davie McPhail, Scott Jackson, Ryan Houston; I picked up a lot of useful information from watching them tie.
Regards,
Scott
EmergingFisher
Life of the Party
Producer
Hook - Curved
Bead - Copper brass or tungsten
Breather - White uni stretch
Thread - Red and black
Ribbing - Silver wire
Body - Red thread transitioning to black thread
Two Toner BC Chironomid
Hook - Curved
Bead - Nickel/silver
Breathers - White uni stretch
Thread - Red
Under-Body - Red tying thread and Mirage tinsel
Over-Body - Synthetic Tapered Peacock Quill - Transparent Gray
Thorax - Orange ice dubbing
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