What's in your vise?
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Logie
(Hair-wing Conversion)
Atlantic Salmon
Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tag - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - Golden pheasant crest
Ribbing - Oval silver tinsel
Body - 1/3 yellow floss & 2/3 red floss
Throat - Blue hackle
Wing - Black bear over yellow polar bear or substitute*
*I used bucktail (Sourcing dyed polar bear is next to impossible)
Tying & Fishing Bucktails and Other Hair Wings - Mike Valla
singlehandjay
Life of the Party
Make sure to hold on tight. Love the variation.
singlehandjay
Life of the Party
I'm participating in a Dave McNeese swap. Here is my rendition of his Purple Spey
Couple different sizes before I went with an AJ 1.5
Killing it Jason
Can’t wait to get mine!
Scottp
Legend
Western Tanager
Notional. The real ones are a common sight on daily bird walks; hard to miss the males.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tail - yarn gold
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing gold
hackle - black
1st shoulder - Mearns quail
2nd shoulder - dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
Notional. The real ones are a common sight on daily bird walks; hard to miss the males.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tail - yarn gold
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing gold
hackle - black
1st shoulder - Mearns quail
2nd shoulder - dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
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It’s hard to do, but shorter wings will improve the silhouette. Keep at the wings, that will fish.
gotta be honest Scott, all of these variants look nothing like anything I have in my box but damn I love the blending & cool colors on not just this one, but all that you post!Western Tanager
Notional. The real ones are a common sight on daily bird walks; hard to miss the males.
hook - WFC Model 6 #10
thread - Uni 8/0 fire orange
tail - yarn gold
rib - small wire gold
body - dubbing gold
hackle - black
1st shoulder - Mearns quail
2nd shoulder - dyed orange (1 Tbs Rit Sunshine Orange/1 cup water)
Regards,
Scott
Let those fish decide if it's shit or not.
Scottp
Legend
That’s very kind of you. A lot of the ideas come from the various Irish & U.K. sites; it’s amazing what some of their more effective flies look like, and I really love the colors they use. Some of it works here, too, especially the muddlers, although I have to admit I spend my time on streams with strains of particularly dumb fish (#8 McGintys on snelled hooks you might find in a gas station would probably do just as well).
Regards,
Scott
jact55
Life of the Party
I will, hoping to be able to sneak out tomorrow and hit some warm water. Just worried the action will be funky.Let those fish decide if it's shit or not.
Think I would have liked the fly more with the single front hook.
But ya don't know if you don't try
