What's in your vise?

You guessed it, another tiger musky fly...this one is a touch more than 8". My current favorite color combo. A little extra under the hood (sorry, company secret), but suffice it to say, this thing will (not probably, but WILL) dance like nobody's business!

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Moonlit’s H2O Hopper (variation)

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A few mods to the original; subbed foam for the floatation device (looks like poly tubing of some sort), used a different hook and added an underwing.

hook - WFC Model 16 #6
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body - H2O Twist tan
pfd - 2mm foam tan
underwing - Congo Hair cream
wing - deer hair
head - 2mm foam tan
legs - medium round rubber brown
indicator - 1mm foam orange

Regards,
Scott
 
Skyko’s Twitchy Skater (variation)

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Got the idea here.

hook - Maruto 206BL #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
tail - H2O Twist tan
shellback/head - 2mm foam tan
body - Starburst dubbing tan
wing - deer hair
indicator - 1mm foam orange

Regards,
Scott
 
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Scott, thanks for tying this pattern, yours is super crisp and clean in execution and a great example to follow. A couple questions if you don't mind, I haven't tried to spin deer hair much at all and find it challenging, need to practice more..

Looks like you tied yours in place after you pulled the shell back forward and before you reversed the foam to create the final lip and tied over the deer hair, is that correct?

Any tricks or tips in getting such a nice even spread and perfect backwards angle on the deer hair off the body? Or just practice and practice? I tied mine in place on the body before bringing the shell back forward, spun it and separated but couldn't get it to finish quite right so applied a bit of Solarez at the junction.

These worked well for me last fall for instream SR cutthroat and fun to fish.
 
SKYKO said:
Scott, thanks for tying this pattern, yours is super crisp and clean in execution and a great example to follow. A couple questions if you don't mind, I haven't tried to spin deer hair much at all and find it challenging, need to practice more..

Looks like you tied yours in place after you pulled the shell back forward and before you reversed the foam to create the final lip and tied over the deer hair, is that correct?

Any tricks or tips in getting such a nice even spread and perfect backwards angle on the deer hair off the body? Or just practice and practice? I tied mine in place on the body before bringing the shell back forward, spun it and separated but couldn't get it to finish quite right so applied a bit of Solarez at the junction.

These worked well for me last fall for instream SR cutthroat and fun to fish.
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Damn, you beat me to the punch; I was going to ask how you tied yours. You got my sequence correct - pulled the shell back forward, tied on the wing and then doubled back with the foam. After I tied the deer hair in, I split it with x-wraps (I like your idea of using UV resin to keep the wing in place) before I tied down the foam creating the lip.
Thank you for posting your pics; it’s a neat little fly. Looking forward to fishing these on some little blue lines for West Slopes.

Regards,
Scott
 
Light pallett Daddy
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Sz. 10 1550
Silver tag
Silver wire rib
Ice dub body
Grizzly palmer
Knotted Pheasant legs
Partridge shoulder
Bleached costal deer
 
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