What's in your vise?

[Norm Frechette]

Bondal Black (Dutchman's Balls)

Atlantic Salmon

Originated by Hans Van Klinken

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent (or Partridge CS42)
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - A few fibers of mallard or teal
Butt - Blue fluorescent wool yarn
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Peacock herl
Beard - A nice bunch of rabbit fur, dyed blue
Wing - Dyed blue squirrel tail (bottom), Fitch tail (middle), Mallard or teal fibers (top)

*I used teal for the tail and top wing, marabou for the rabbit fur and black squirrel tail for the fitch tail middle wing

The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies - Chris Mann

 

[SculpinSwinger]

Free style

Buck tail
Finn coon
Silver fox
Predator wrap
Lateral scale
Hackle wing
2 stations reverse tied buck tail
Crowded the eye…

 

[Norm Frechette]

Royal Charm

Peter Farago (1979)

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval gold tinsel & fluorescent green floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel
Body - Royal blue floss
Wing - Gray squirrel tail over golden pheasant tippets
Collar - Kingfisher blue hen hackle
UV resin head

The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies - Chris Mann

 

[Norm Frechette]

Kenyaman

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent
Thread - Black
Tag - Silver tinsel
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Body - Onal silver tinsel
Wing - Yellow goat or squirrel hair
Hackle - Black hen, full and long

The Complete Illustrated Directory of Salmon Flies - Chris Mann

 

[EmergingFisher]

 

[Pez Vela]

Floozy Fly… tied by the great Ed Sale! With an 8” wingspan, I’m thinking saltwater for surface feeding marlin.

 

[Jack Devlin]

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That's gotta be deadly!

 

[GOTY]

Green butt skunk dee for a swap. Starting to get the hang of the horizontal wing set.

 

[Wayne Kohan]

Took a square foam block from Hobby Lobby and put in home made lathe with sandpaper to shape it. Going bass hunting with the results.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Chief Needahbeh

Originator - Chief Needahbeh

Hook – Mustad 3665A or equivalent
Thread – Red und body; black head
Tag - Flat silver tinsel
Tail - A section of red duck or goose quill
Body -Red floss. The original version has a red hackle "throat" one third of the way forward on the body.
Rib - Flat silver tinsel
Wing - A red saddle hackle on each side of two yellow saddle hackles
Cheeks - Jungle cock
Throat - A red saddle hackle tied on as a collar after the wing has been applied
Collar - Red saddle hackle
UV resin head

Chief Needahbeh

 

[clarkman]

Took a square foam block from Hobby Lobby and put in home made lathe with sandpaper to shape it. Going bass hunting with the results. View attachment 23356View attachment 23357

I love those foam blocks. You're far more talented (and less lazy) than me. Shoot, I just slide it over my bite leader for tigers.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Pink Pookie

Hook – Mustad 9671 or equivalent, size 8

Thread - Red

Foam - 2mm craft foam. Tan foam for the wing, pink for the belly

Under-Wing - Natural deer hair

Post - 2mm craft foam – Orange, yellow, pink, white etc.

Legs - Medium yellow/black barred rubber legs

 

[Norm Frechette]

Yellow Sally

Hook - Mustad 94840 or equivalent

Thread Yellow

Tag - Red thread or floss

Body - Yellow dubbing or biot

Wing - Pale yellow antron

Hackle - Grizzly

 

[Gary Knowels]

I've been helping my mom move from WA to AZ after her retirement for the last 3 days. That meant a lot of time in the car. Whenever I wasn't driving, I was working my way through all 104 pages of awesome here!

I took screenshots of a number of flies I want to tie for my next trip. Thank you all for the inspiration, I'll try to post some pics of what I do.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Klod Hopper

Hook - Mustad 9671 or equivalent, size 6-8-10
Thread - Dark brown
Body -Tan craft foam
Hackle - Brown
Over Body - Tan dubbing
Wing - Elk or deer hair
Legs - Orange/black, yellow/black rubber legs

Klod Hopper (flyanglersonline.com)

 

[Matt B]

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First thing outta the vise after another long break. I need to crank out about a dozen of these. They aren’t anything special but catch fish.

I only was able to stock about 4 of these flies in my box before this last trip. I probably gave two away and needed more so I got to do one of my favorite things—tie flies in camp and fish them immediately. I ended up needing small ones and I just stopped using any pheasant tail, so no tail on the fly, omitting the body wrap and just using a slim, tapered black thread body rib-wrapped with one strand each purple and pearl krystal flash. Then loop the flash as wings, tie in and loop CDC, finish with peacock. Make a nice black thread head under the peacock. The peacock is usually the first to go but the fly still works with a black thread head.

 

[Travis Bille]

 

[Norm Frechette]

Mini Chernobyl Ant

Hook - Mustad 3399, 3906 or equivalent, size 14

Thread - Brown

Dubbing - Golden stone dubbing

Body - 2mm tan foam

Wing - Poly yarn

Legs - Superflex Spandex Leg Material – Brown

Mini Chubby Fly Tying Tutorial | Hopper Fishing Blog (wordpress.com)

 

[Norm Frechette]

Chubby Chernobyl

Hook - Mustad 9671 or equivalent, size 8-12

Thread - Tan

Tail - Pearl krystal flash

Dubbing - SLF Kaufmann Golden Stone or Dave Whitlock Golden Brown

Foam - 2mm tan foam

Wings - White poly yarn

Legs - Brown rubber legs

How to tie the Chubby Chernobyl | Hopper Fishing Blog (wordpress.com)

 

[Norm Frechette]

Chernobyl Ant

Hook - Mustad 9671 or equivalent, sizes 6 - 10

Thread - Orange

Underbody/Belly - 2mm orange foam

Upperbody/Back - 2mm black foam

Legs - Brown rubber legs

Indicator - 2mm yellow foam

Tying the Chernobyl Ant (stoneriveroutfitters.com)