What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
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Nice cat
One dry
and wet
and wet
More Rusty Brown Stimulators in sz. 8
Whitetail, med coastal, and "deer hair" w/ furnace hackle up front.
Whitetail, med coastal, and "deer hair" w/ furnace hackle up front.
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A couple more birds of prey. Same tie except added 6x mono counter wrap over pearl flash rib. Maybe next time I'll figure out how I'm breaking the bead, or not.
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Black Hole Caddis Emerger
Hook - Mustad C49S or equivalent, size 10-18
Weight - Lead free wire
Thread - Black
Rib - Copper wire
Abdomen - *Mylar tinsel
Thorax - Peacock herl
Hackle - Black hen or choice
Head - Black rabbit dubbing
*I used the orange side of peacock/orange tinsel
SOFT~HACKLE JOURNAL: Black Hole Caddis Emerger (soft-hacklejournal.blogspot.com)
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I fish these a lot…
Scottp
Legend
McPhillips’ Muddled Golden Octopus
The Ice Dub is much closer to golden olive than true orange (wish I had bought 2 more bags of it); not sure the 2nd shoulder was necessary but it gave me a chance to see how much I could stuff on a hook.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tail - yarn flame
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub orange
body hackle - golden olive (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yllow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel/2 cups water)
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body feather red
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown
collar/head - deer hair dyed brown (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Dark Brown/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
The Ice Dub is much closer to golden olive than true orange (wish I had bought 2 more bags of it); not sure the 2nd shoulder was necessary but it gave me a chance to see how much I could stuff on a hook.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tail - yarn flame
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub orange
body hackle - golden olive (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yllow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel/2 cups water)
1st shoulder - golden pheasant body feather red
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown
collar/head - deer hair dyed brown (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Dark Brown/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
EmergingFisher
Life of the Party
Davie McPhail’s smoke fly variant
I forgot I had these flies in my box - in early June of this year three of us were anchored up on the edge of a shoal fishing the drop with assorted flies - it was really slow. I looked through my boxes (too many boxes, really) and saw this Canadian brown simiseal leech with a red bead in the middle. I picked it out, knotted it onto my I-line and made a cast opposite the dropoff and hooked a big trout in skinny shoal water. It wasn't a fluke as I hooked several more big trout with the fly. My buddy, Herb, hadn't been catching many fish so I clipped the fly off and had him tie it onto his I-line rigged rod. Fish on! Two great fish almost back to back. Maybe I should call this fly The Forgotten?
I like tying a 16 soft hackle to the bend…it is my go to rig lately…
Jack Devlin
Life of the Party
Trying out some Moonlit ML062 hooks for first time. Nice hook, sharp as heck.
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Scottp
Legend
Brown Barn Owl Muddler
Got away from this head shape for a while. If I get the chance in April, may give this a go as a Skwala; colors are close enough and I’ve had good luck with bright olive flies that don’t look anything like the naturals.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - SemperFli 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant crest
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub gold
body hackle - brown
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown
collar/head - deer hair dyed brown (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Dark Brown/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
Got away from this head shape for a while. If I get the chance in April, may give this a go as a Skwala; colors are close enough and I’ve had good luck with bright olive flies that don’t look anything like the naturals.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - SemperFli 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant crest
rib - small wire gold
body - Ice Dub gold
body hackle - brown
2nd shoulder - pheasant rump dyed brown
collar/head - deer hair dyed brown (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Dark Brown/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
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Just finished up my 2nd boat patch donation for the February 2023 Madison-Gallatin TU Banquet. Took about 4 weeks to get this one done. These flies will show up in the online and silent auction at the banquet next February. Here's the description:
Twenty-Four Dozen Montana Trout Flies tied on Firehole Outdoors barbless hooks on 11”x17” slotted boat patch. Hand tied in Bozeman, Montana. Dries, streamers, nymphs, terrestrials, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, midges. Weighted flies use tungsten Firehole Stones or Lead-Free wire (Yellowstone Park safe.) An all-around selection for SW Montana rivers year-round.
Twenty-Four Dozen Montana Trout Flies tied on Firehole Outdoors barbless hooks on 11”x17” slotted boat patch. Hand tied in Bozeman, Montana. Dries, streamers, nymphs, terrestrials, mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, midges. Weighted flies use tungsten Firehole Stones or Lead-Free wire (Yellowstone Park safe.) An all-around selection for SW Montana rivers year-round.
Spitfire
Hook - Mustad 9672, size 4-10
Thread - Black
Tail - A section of dyed red goose quill fibers
Palmer ribbing - Brown hackle palmered through body
Body - Black chenille
Hackle - Guinea hen body feather wound as a wet fly collar
REMARKS: This Don Gapen pattern is now almost fifty years old. It is listed as a trout streamer pattern but would also easily pass as a wet fly.
Wooly Worm Variant
The Book of Fly Patterns: Over 1,000 Patterns for the Construction of Artificial Flies - Eric Leiser
