What's in your vise?

[Norm Frechette]

Steelhead Cameron

Hook – Single Salmon
Thread – Fluorescent orange
Tag – Flat copper tinsel
Tail – Golden pheasant tippets
Ribbing – Copper wire
Body – Chartreuse floss and orange dubbing
Hackle #1 – Any barred flank feather
Under wing – Green krystal flash
Hackle #2 – Chartreuse hen
Over wing – Orange marabou

From a YouTube video

 

[Scottp]

Generic Caddis

Nothing in particular. Could be an emerger, egg-layer or cripple, I guess; you’d need a bead, non-tox underbody or split shot to get it down. Change color/size to suit your needs.

hook - WFC Model 11 #12
thread - Uni 8/0 camel
tag - Krystal Flash root beer/resin
rib - Krystal Flash root beer (doubled/twisted)
body - Ice Dub hare’s ear
wing - Congo Hair shiner tan
shoulder - sharptail grouse
head - grey squirrel (loop dubbed)

Regards,
Scott

 

[clarkman]

Steelhead stripper....no swingers allowed.

 

[Dave Boyle]

Tried my hand at a Mikulak Sedge, need to lengthen the deer hair parts at the front and use less, I tied in 6 hanks incl. the tail… well at least it’ll float…

Dave

 

[Dave Boyle]

Still on a caddis theme, October caddis as sort of tied by Barry Ord. Body needs to be a bit shorter and more hair so a slightly larger head but should fish just fine. Wondering too re a little black/brown as a top on the hair.

Dave

 

[FinLuver]

Steelhead stripper....no swingers allowed.

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Not sure that's how the Comet fly looks...
Maybe a meteor in the sky. ;-)

 

[Tom Butler]

Still on a caddis theme, October caddis as sort of tied by Barry Ord. Body needs to be a bit shorter and more hair so a slightly larger head but should fish just fine. Wondering too re a little black/brown as a top on the hair.

Dave

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That looks like a real fish catcher for sure.

 

[Bob N]

Tried my hand at a Mikulak Sedge, need to lengthen the deer hair parts at the front and use less, I tied in 6 hanks incl. the tail… well at least it’ll float…

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I would make the rear wing sections longer and shorten the front a bit.

 

[Scottp]

Muddled Flatwing Silver Hilton

Notional.

hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 black
tail - yarn chartreuse
rib - small wire silver
body - Ice Dub black
hackle - black
wing - hen saddle grizzly
shoulder - Mearns quail
collar/head - deer hair

Regards,
Scott

 

[RichS]

Less than four months until topwater season



Hook: B10S
Tail: Chartreuse marabou and grizly rooster neck hackles
Collar: Black deer
Body: Black and Green Chartreuse deer over Yellow Charteuse deer
Head: Pink deer
Eyes: 7 MM
Legs: Black and bright yellow silicone

 

[clarkman]

Here's a little 7.5" pikeminnow-ish pattern for Spring tigers on a 4/0 Ahrex TP605.

 

[rattlesnake]

More prespawn patterns

 

[Dr. Magill]

More prespawn patterns

Awesome ties
Just beautiful

 

[clarkman]

More prespawn patterns

How many segments are you tying into those? Do they kick pretty well on the pause or better suited to a straight retrieve? Ala the original game changer. Regardless, I love the look of that pattern!

 

[rattlesnake]

How many segments are you tying into those? Do they kick pretty well on the pause or better suited to a straight retrieve? Ala the original game changer. Regardless, I love the look of that pattern!

Thanks! These tend to kick a little but not a ton (intentionally). I keel weight the back hook on the bend so that helps push the head around some. And the front hook either has a 4.5mm tungsten bead or med or small
Lead eyes. The number of wraps with the crustaceous brush or homemade Congo hair brush dictate how much they kick too

I tend to vary my hooks a bunch so as to build confidence in other hooks but generally these are just hook, either a 15mm or 20mm shank and then another hook. Sometimes for a slightly larger fly I’ll do the marabou on a tail or 10mm shank off the back but for these size flies don’t feel it’s necessary.

Pretty simple fly. Marabou with some rubber legs tail, polar chenille body (trimmed as desired) then schlappen and more legs. Sometimes do 2 colors of schlappen (or 3), Repeat on the shank with shorter marabout just to cover gap then front hook with the bead about 60% of the way up or lead eyes slightly further, same polar chenille body, schlappen and legs then brush head.

 

[clarkman]

Thanks! These tend to kick a little but not a ton (intentionally). I keel weight the back hook on the bend so that helps push the head around some. And the front hook either has a 4.5mm tungsten bead or med or small
Lead eyes. The number of wraps with the crustaceous brush or homemade Congo hair brush dictate how much they kick too

I tend to vary my hooks a bunch so as to build confidence in other hooks but generally these are just hook, either a 15mm or 20mm shank and then another hook. Sometimes for a slightly larger fly I’ll do the marabou on a tail or 10mm shank off the back but for these size flies don’t feel it’s necessary.

Pretty simple fly. Marabou with some rubber legs tail, polar chenille body (trimmed as desired) then schlappen and more legs. Sometimes do 2 colors of schlappen (or 3), Repeat on the shank with shorter marabout just to cover gap then front hook with the bead about 60% of the way up or lead eyes slightly further, same polar chenille body, schlappen and legs then brush head.

It's funny, I've gotten my "game changer" style musky flies down to 3 segments as well. I can still get that nice serpentine movement on a straight strip but still easily incorporate other things into the fly (like you have) to make it do other things I want it to.

 

[clarkman]

A little 5" smallie baitfish pattern....playing around more with Copic markers. This is basically a hollow tie with a touch of synthetic (chartreuse bucktail under the tail and grey bucktail just behind the bloody white Titan dubbed head.

 

[Pink Nighty]

More marabou for bulls and steelhead, the latter more theoretically.

 

[Jack Devlin]

Agerhonen (Partridge) - a Danish Sea Trout pattern that has worked very well for me on Sea Runs.

 

[SKYKO]

Agerhonen (Partridge) - a Danish Sea Trout pattern that has worked very well for me on Sea Runs.


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Thanks for posting this pattern @Jack Devlin and your perspective on fishing it. I took a stab at a knock off and look forward to trying it out.