What's in your vise?
- Thread starter Billy
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My daughter is more or less done fishing for the season, but she’s requested some new purple flies to go along side her “Bert Special” (it’s just a purple chubby).
She needs big flies to see and they’re easier for her to cast, and they need to float all day while she just drags it through
the water. I’m not the most creative tyer, I get enjoyment at tying other peoples patterns as good as I can (at least for dry flies). Andrew Grillo’s patterns are perfect for her so I’m stocking up for next years adventures. First up, some Hippie Stompers.
She needs big flies to see and they’re easier for her to cast, and they need to float all day while she just drags it through
the water. I’m not the most creative tyer, I get enjoyment at tying other peoples patterns as good as I can (at least for dry flies). Andrew Grillo’s patterns are perfect for her so I’m stocking up for next years adventures. First up, some Hippie Stompers.
Another good one is the Blingnobyl Ant from Fly Fish Food (a Google search will bring the you tube video up). I replace the foam indicators with congo hair for floatability and visibility. Since you were asking about foam in the other thread, and mentioned you often get it from craft stores, I thought you might like this one. It uses 2mm glitter foam from the craft store. I glue a sheet of glitter foam together with another piece of regular foam and cut out the bodies. I use GSP 50D to tie them on a size 10 2xl nymph hook. I use all the colors too, and they have all worked really well! Your daughter will probably get a kick out of the "glitter factor" too!
Here's a crappy phone pic of one I tied up the other day:
Right up her alley! Thanks James!
Purple Passion
Salmon Fly
Buddy MacIntyre
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel, purple floss
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Butt - Black ostrich herl
Rib - Oval silver tinsel
Body - Rear - UNI Micro-Tinsel*; front - black wool
Throat - Purple hackle fibers
Wing - Black squirrel tail
Cheeks - Jungle cock
*Recipe did not provide a specific color, so I went with purple as it is the theme of this fly
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Scottp
Legend
Hairwing R/A Green Peter (variation)
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tag - Orvis Saltwater thread fluoro orange/resin
rib - small wire gold
body - Starburst dubbing olive
hackle - brown wing - deer hair dyed olive (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water, overdyed with 1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow, 1 Tsp Rit Dark Green/2 cups water)
1st shoulder - pheasant rump dyed olive
2nd shoulder - grizzly hen saddle dyed Silver Doctor blue (1 pack Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tag - Orvis Saltwater thread fluoro orange/resin
rib - small wire gold
body - Starburst dubbing olive
hackle - brown wing - deer hair dyed olive (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water, overdyed with 1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow, 1 Tsp Rit Dark Green/2 cups water)
1st shoulder - pheasant rump dyed olive
2nd shoulder - grizzly hen saddle dyed Silver Doctor blue (1 pack Koolaid Ice Blue Raspberry/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
Robidoux
Salmon Fly
Claude Bédard
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Gray
Tag - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - Yellow hen hackle fibers
Rib - Silver holographic tinsel
Body - Yellow stretch nylon
Wing - Grey squirrel tail
Collar - Grizzly hen
Fly Patterns of Canada - Paul C Marriner
Jack Devlin
Life of the Party
Tied up an old favorite Cutthroat pattern.
Scottp
Legend
Bumbled Apache Shrimp
Loved the colors on the original; a bit different look here (the orange Ice Dub is much closer to sunburst than true orange).
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant body feather red
rib - small wire gold
rear body - Ice Dub orange
rear hackle - dyed sunburst (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water)
front body - Simi Seal dubbing red
front hackle - red
shoulder - grizzly hen
Regards,
Scott
Loved the colors on the original; a bit different look here (the orange Ice Dub is much closer to sunburst than true orange).
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - golden pheasant body feather red
rib - small wire gold
rear body - Ice Dub orange
rear hackle - dyed sunburst (1 Tbs Rit Golden Yellow/1 cup water)
front body - Simi Seal dubbing red
front hackle - red
shoulder - grizzly hen
Regards,
Scott
SRC&Bassbum
Steelhead
Scottp
Legend
Bumbled Sugerman Shrimp
More fun playing with Atlantic salmon flies. Saw a version with dyed ring neck rump for the tail so I tried that here; think I like a red GP feather better.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - pheasant rump dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
rib - small wire gold
rear body - Ice Dub Caddis Green
rear hackle - fluoro green
front body - Ice Dub black
front hackle - black
shoulder - guinea
Regards,
Scott
More fun playing with Atlantic salmon flies. Saw a version with dyed ring neck rump for the tail so I tried that here; think I like a red GP feather better.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 black
tail - pheasant rump dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
rib - small wire gold
rear body - Ice Dub Caddis Green
rear hackle - fluoro green
front body - Ice Dub black
front hackle - black
shoulder - guinea
Regards,
Scott
LA COULEE DES SEAUX
Salmon Fly
Hook - Single or double salmon hook
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - Red hackle fibers
Ribbing - Fine black chenille
Body - Flat silver tinsel
Throat - Red hackle fibers
Wing - Black squirrel tail
Scottp
Legend
Buzzball (variation)
Kind of a Jingler version of Gary LaFontaine’s midge cluster fly. Unlikely that putting the softhackle up front did anything more than add another step, but in the off-chance that it works, you saw it here first. Tying this one reminded me why I hate UTC 70 so much (I can get tighter wraps with 4 strand floss); got to put in an order for some Uni 8/0 pumpkin.
hook - WFC Model 3 #1
thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
hackle - orange, dun (clipped to length - gap width top, bottom, sides); grizzly (sized properly for the hook and trimmed top/bottom)
shoulder - hen grizzly
Regards,
Scott
Kind of a Jingler version of Gary LaFontaine’s midge cluster fly. Unlikely that putting the softhackle up front did anything more than add another step, but in the off-chance that it works, you saw it here first. Tying this one reminded me why I hate UTC 70 so much (I can get tighter wraps with 4 strand floss); got to put in an order for some Uni 8/0 pumpkin.
hook - WFC Model 3 #1
thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
hackle - orange, dun (clipped to length - gap width top, bottom, sides); grizzly (sized properly for the hook and trimmed top/bottom)
shoulder - hen grizzly
Regards,
Scott
