What's in your vise?

[longputt]

Anyone ever fished anything like this before? Supposed to be like a dun crawling out of its nymphal shuck. Hoping the butt end hangs low in the water and the parachute part sits flush.

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Hook: Firehole 317 sz. 18
Thread: Veevus 14/0 Dun
Rear Body: Polish Quill Natural
Soft Hackle: Whiting Brahma Hen Dyed Medium Dun
Thorax: Spirit River UV2 Superfine Dubbing Adam's Gray
Post: Senyos Lazer Dubbing Silver Minnow Belly
Hackle: Whiting Farms Pro Grade Midge Saddle Brassie

That is a beautiful fly...I cannot believe how perfect the hackle is wound!

I frequently fish flies like this and over the years I've realized that the tail fibers need to get through the surface tension naturally. I use marabou fibers for the tail, it seems like once marabou is wet it goes right through the surface film and allows the fly to hang. There may be other alternatives but marabou fibers have such nice action I've never tried anything else.

 

[Norm Frechette]

Emerson Hough Bucktail

Bass Fly

Hook - Mustad 9671, size 10
Thread - Black
Tail - Brown bucktail hair
Body - Deer hair spun and clipped to shape
Wing: Dark brown bucktail tied in at a 40-degree angle

Fly Anglers Online

 

[RichS]

A variation of Saunders Femme Fatal. These wobble like crazy and draw some wild strikes from bass. 5 inches long
Hook: TMC 8089 #2
Tail: Chamois or Cohens artificial Chamois.
First collar- large rooster neck hackle
Second collar- deer hair, butts trimmed even with the head height
Head: 1/2 foam cylinder. Cut an ~45-degree angle on the front. On this one I colored the head with a marker and coated the head with hard as nails to lock i the color and protect the eyes
Eyes: fingernail polish
Diving lip: flylip

 

[Kfish]

Couple of Murdich Minnows for bass. One is mixed with the longer uv chenille in the head, and one without. Tied on my last two SC15 1/0 hooks laying around.

 

[Billy]

 

[Scottp]

MFC Flash Cripple

A Quigley variant. Tied here as a notional March Brown (western); tail’s probably a bit long.

hook - WFC Model 3 #12
thread - Uni 8/0 camel
tail- pheasant tail
rib - small wire copper
shuck/shellback - Congo Hair brown
abdomen - Krystal Flash root beer
thorax - Ice Dub golden brown
wing - deer hair
hackle - grizzly dyed tan

Regards,
Scott

 

[Norm Frechette]

Cramer

Hook - Daiichi 1190 or equivalent, size 10-12

Thread - Black

Tail - Deer hair

Wings - Deer hair, upright and divided

Body - Yellow wool or dubbing

Fly Patterns (michigandryflies.net)

 

[rattlesnake]

Couple of Murdich Minnows for bass. One is mixed with the longer uv chenille in the head, and one without. Tied on my last two SC15 1/0 hooks laying around.

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Does the one with polar chenille fish the same as the og?

 

[Scottp]

Hacklestacker Flash Cripple

Another variation of a Quigley pattern; used part of the back end of the MFC Cripple. Again, tied as a notional March Brown.

hook - WFC Model 3 #12
thread - Uni 8/0 camel
shuck/shellback - Congo Hair brown
rib - small wire copper
abdomen - Krystal Flash root beer
thorax - Ice Dub golden brown
post/wing - Congo Hair baitfish grey
hackle - grizzly dyed tan

Regards,
Scott

 

[EmergingFisher]

Hot spot soft hackle nymph

 

[_WW_]

I do not like those squirmy wormies. They squirm too much when I try to lash them to the hook and if I crank down on the thread tension to get them to stay put, I cut through them. If there is good trick to getting them tied on, I'd love to hear it.

Super glue!

 

[Norm Frechette]

King Rat

(Variation)

Atlantic Salmon

Hook – Gamakatsu T10-6H or equivalent
Thread - Red
Tip - Oval silver tinsel
Tail - Peacock sword over yellow floss
Body - Flat Silver Tinsel and peacock herl
Rib - Oval gold tinsel
Wings mid body - Yellow floss
Wing - Gray squirrel tail (original tied with grey fox)
Hackle - Grizzly

 

[Norm Frechette]

I do not like those squirmy wormies. They squirm too much when I try to lash them to the hook and if I crank down on the thread tension to get them to stay put, I cut through them. If there is good trick to getting them tied on, I'd love to hear it.

dubbing

 

[Zak]

dubbing

That looks like the winning technique to me (the wire method also looks good). Thanks, @Norm Frechette and @SpeyrodGB !

 

[mcswny]

That looks like the winning technique to me (the wire method also looks good). Thanks, @Norm Frechette and @SpeyrodGB !

This is exactly how I tie mine

 

[Zak]

Something for the largemouth bass that followed my small trout fly in yesterday.


It's a rough approximation of Steve Culton's Countermeasure SMB fly:

 

[clarkman]

this is kinda cheating (ok, full on cheating), but I felt I had to do a trim job on my XL sucker. Still big, I just trimmed it to scale a little bit, only took off a couple of inches...

 

[Oliver1329]

Something for the largemouth bass that followed my small trout fly in yesterday.
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It's a rough approximation of Steve Culton's Countermeasure SMB fly:

Two pine squirrel zonkers for tail?

 

[Zak]

Two pine squirrel zonkers for tail?

I put three pine squirrel zonkers, because they were small and thin and the original has one fat rabbit strip. Hopefully, several small ones are as good as one big one.

 

[Kfish]

Something for the largemouth bass that followed my small trout fly in yesterday.
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It's a rough approximation of Steve Culton's Countermeasure SMB fly:

Nice! Going to try that for bass too.