What's in your vise?
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Zak
Legend
It's not like chenille and super floss are natural materials...
Skip Nymph Regular
Skip Morris
Hook -Any regular-shank, 1X or 2X long, heavy wire nymph hook sizes 8 - 20
Weight - Copper or lead wire
Thread - Black or brown
Ribbing - Small copper wire
Abdomen And Thorax - Fur from a natural hare’s mask
Tails And Wing Case - Pheasant-tail fibers
Skip Nymph Dark
Hook - Any regular-shank, 1X or 2X long, heavy wire nymph hook sizes 8 - 20
Weight - Copper or lead wire
Thread - Black or brown
Ribbing - Small copper wire
Abdomen And Thorax - Fur from a dyed brown hare’s mask
Tails And Wing Case - Pheasant-tail fibers
Fly Tying Made Clear and Simple: An Easy-to-Follow All-Color Guide - Skip Morris
Kemp Bug
Hook - Mustad 3906B, size 6-12
Thread - Black
Tail - Three or four strands of peacock herl (cut short and stubby, barely past bend)
Body - Peacock herl
Hackle - Furnace as a wet fly collar
Wing - Grizzly hackle tips tied flat and slightly splayed (delta style), angling backward for half shank length
Originated by Roy Donnelly
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
Every year I contribute flies for the Deschutes River Alliance Auction. Did it one year and now I’m on their call list. This year, I decided to tie the Clark’s Stone in different variations. I have fished the orange salmon fly and yellow stone fly variations for years. This summer during one of my fishing trips, I stopped in to the Deschutes Angler Fly Shop and asked Amy Hazel if she had any of the yarn. She winked and took me to the wall where she had orange, yellow, purple, pink, green, and tan. So I ended up tying variations of the Clark’s Stone. This will be mailed out today when it stops snowing here (Tri Cities). The auction will be February 24 in Portland, Oregon. I’ll be there. 
Divad
Whitefish
Wow that looks like a real bug! Now I hope you catch a bunch, just not enough to force the trout to eating those over the patsPat's stones work amazingly well. I just don't get it, nor do I like it, haha!. Yeah, the silhouette is there, but so boring and fugly! They just don't get me excited to fish stonefly nymphs. Again, I understand they work better than pretty much any other stonefly nymph ever invented, but I have been trying to create flies that work at least as well. I have created a few that seem to work close to as well, but they take a long time to tie, and when you are fishing stonefly nymphs on a double rig, you tend to lose a few. Maybe that's why Pat's "work" so well, cause everyone knows if you lose a Pat's, no big deal, I'll tie a dozen more in half an hour. When you lose that one that took you 20 minutes to tie, it's like "f&@k!!!". So people just fish Pat's more often so more fish are caught on them, hahahaha!
Anyways, back to trying to create a fly that doesn't take too long to tie and works at least close to as good as a Pat's. Unfortunately, chenille and super floss are super cheap, so that's another point for the Pat's. This one though, while the materials are a bit more expensive, seems to work pretty decent. It's pretty quick to tie (maybe a minute or two longer than a Pat's, and less frustrating if your super floss is wavy), looks slick, and works really well. In fact, this last winter I was fishing a Pat's all day with no luck, and I thought why the heck not, and switched to this one. Within the first five casts, fish on!
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Bodies: $0.49 each
Legs: $0.46 each
So basically add $1.00/fly...kind of a fail, but at least I tie it on the end of my line without disgust. And maybe if I fish them more they will "work better" than a Pat's...I'll keep y'all posted.
. I do find the pats pattern rather boring as well.
Divad
Whitefish
Neat pattern. What hook is that?
A couple of hare and grouse flymphs in sz. 10, with a turn of my new hen saddle up front. Not quite as sparse as normal, will try stripping one side. Still getting used to picking the shoulder feathers for size.
Bongoman
Life of the Party
It's a Partridge CS14/2 size 5
Tom, you get one of those grouse skins from our old home?
That one came from my visit to Worley Bugger over thanksgiving. Nice skin and good darker palate to compliment the partridge I like.
CanoeGuy
Steelhead
The camera is picking up more yellow in the body and less red in the head than what i see. The only yellow material i had was marabou. I palmered a few turns in front of the tail and added some extra in the belly. Certainly different from anything I would have tied. Thanks again for the tip!
