What's in your vise?

[jasmillo]

Ugly but willing to bet effective “flash fly” style stuff for coho. Something to throw when the herring guys are crushing it and fly guys are struggling. Eating an oozing, oily, sardine sandwich right before tying one of these on might help as well .



Also, plan on putting in 3-4 hours early tomorrow before work, so a few glow in the dark stinger clousers…

 

[Scottp]

McPhail’s Melvin Octopus

Minor change to the first shoulder; just liked the look of the pheasant rump better. Here’s his video if you’re interested.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 chartreuse
tag - medium tinsel gold
rib - small wire gold
body - Starburst Dubbing olive
body hackle - olive
1st shoulder - pheasant rump dyed olive
2nd shoulder - golden pheasant body yellow

Regards,
Scott

 

[Norm Frechette]

Malinda Rat

Atlantic Salmon

Designed by Robert Lanzara

Hook – Gamakatsu T10-6H

Thread - Fire Orange

Tip - Flat holographic gold tinsel

Tail - Peacock Sword

Rib - Oval silver tinsel, total 6 turns

Rear ½ Body - ½ Fl. Green & ½ Fl. Fire Orange floss or uni stretch

Body Veil - 1 strands each fluorescent green & fluorescent orange floss; length to middle of tail

Front ½ Body - Peacock herl

Wing - Grey fox body or gray squirrel

Collar - Grizzly hen hackle

 

[mtskibum16]

Eating an oozing, oily, sardine sandwich right before tying one of these on might help as well .

I just soak mine in a herring juice brine

 

[copperJon]

Something to throw when the herring guys are crushing it and fly guys are struggling. Eating an oozing, oily, sardine sandwich right before tying one of these on might help as well .

Wait you guys aren't using herring anus on all your flies?

 

[Scottp]

Melonistic

It’s all about the substrate; the dubbing was a piece of white rabbit and took on a nice pinkish-orange color while the hackle and partridge showed very little of the pink.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tag - medium tinsel opal
rib - small wire gold
body - dyed melon (3 Tsp Rit Neon Yellow, 1/8 Tsp Rit Coral/2 cups water)
body hackle - grizzly dyed melon
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body red
2nd shoulder - chukar dyed melon

Regards,
Scott

 

[Rye_Tyler]

The dry line guys have got me enamored with the idea of skating for steel. It’s going to take some tying to get deer hair spun just right. First three Bee’s off the vise.

Steelhead Bee size 10

 

[Norm Frechette]

Pineapple

Hook - Gamakatsu J20-B or equivalent

Bead - Copper tungsten slotted bead

Thread - Black

Tail - Coq de Leon

Body - Opal mirage tinsel

Wing - Yellow antron yarn

Thorax - Black ice dubbing

 

[Norm Frechette]

Psycho Prince

Hook – Mustad 3906B, sizes 12-18
Bead - Gold or copper brass or tungsten bead
Weight – Lead free wire
Thread - Black
Tail - Brown goose biot
Body - Ice dubbing in your favorite color
Shellback - Mottled oak turkey tail fibers
Rib - Copper wire
Wing bud - Yellow antron yarn
Wing – White goose biots
Collar - Ice dubbing on your favorite color

https://flyfishingthesierra.com/pyschoprince.htm

 

[Scottp]

Brindle Crippler

Softhackle Hecuba (western Fall Drake) based, loosely, on Chuck Stranahan’s Brindle Chute.

hook - WFC Model 6 #12
thread - Danville 6\0 orange
tag - medium tinsel gold
rib - small wire gold
body - 50% hare's ear/antron, 25% olive rabbit/antron, 25% rust orange rabbit/antron (add a little gold rabbit after the other stuff's all blended)
body hackles - ginger/furnace
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body red
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown

Regards,
Scott

 

[Jack Devlin]

Killer bugs.

 

[SilverFly]

Heading to the beach for a few days. Surf fishing will be a good warm up for tuna.

Havent tied in almost a year. Not my best work but these should fish. Mole crabs are a bitch to tie a decent imitation.

 

[SilverFly]

Would this work? From a WFF member who has great tying skills:

Squid Vicious

Each fall and winter Puget Sound hosts millions of Squid as they move into inland waters to spawn. Puget Sound local Kelvin Kleinman has created the Squid Vicious to imitate these protein rich morsels.

globalflyfisher.com

I'd fish that in a heart beat. Not sure if the squid last year worked due to being mostly white, or the size/profile. That fly will have better movement for sure. Maybe tie a few in paler colors?

 

[SilverFly]

Refining the latest squid experiment a bit more.

 

[jasmillo]

Some sandlace I hope will help heal the wounds from two straight mornings of getting my ass kicked on local coho beaches (0-3 total).





And some @Stonedfish style clousers…

 

[Bagman]

Some sandlace I hope will help heal the wounds from two straight mornings of getting my ass kicked on local coho beaches (0-3 total).

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And some @Stonedfish style clousers…

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What size hook are you using on your sandlances?

 

[clarkman]

Heading to the beach for a few days. Surf fishing will be a good warm up for tuna.

Havent tied in almost a year. Not my best work but these should fish. Mole crabs are a bitch to tie a decent imitation.

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You can knit pick all you want on those mole crabs but an all orange wooly bugger tied to ride hook up (or checkerboard as one guy from SoCal calls it) will clean house. Those look freakin' phenomenal though.

 

[jasmillo]

What size hook are you using on your sandlances?

I’ll have to look. I think size 2.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Allen's L. T.

Atlantic Salmon

Hook - Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent

Thread - Black

Tag - Oval gold tinsel & red floss

Tail - Purple hackle fibers

Ribbing - Oval gold tinsel

Body - Black floss

Throat - Black hackle fibers

Wing - Moose hair

Hairwing & Tube Flies for Salmon & Steelhead - Chris Mann

 

[Scottp]

Bad Claret

Based the color scheme on the Stone Goat lough fly.

hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/ wine
tail - yarn sunburst
rib - small wire silver
body - claret/black
body hackles - black/bad claret (1/2 Tsp Rit Fuchsia, 1/8 Tsp Rit Wine 2 cups water)
1st shoulder - hen badger dyed bad claret
2nd shoulder - chukar dyed Silver Doctor Blue (2 packs Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)

Regards,
Scott