What's in your vise?
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Scudley Do Right
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Scottp
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Muddled Skwalactopus
Bugs tend to be a darker dirty motor oil color but this is closer than all of the olive flies I’ve seen (and tied); at this time of year, they haven’t seemed that picky to me but I don’t fish rivers like the Bitterroot where they see a lot of pressure. Tips of the caribou took the dye well enough (although it needed to stay in th bath longer), but the butts…
hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 black
egg sac - UniStretch black
rib - small wire hot yellow
body - Hare’s Ear Plus chocolate brown
hackle - grizzly dyed brown
shoulder - golden pheasant body feather yellow
collar/head - caribou dyed brown (3/4 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel, 1/ Tsp Rit Sunshine Orange/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
Bugs tend to be a darker dirty motor oil color but this is closer than all of the olive flies I’ve seen (and tied); at this time of year, they haven’t seemed that picky to me but I don’t fish rivers like the Bitterroot where they see a lot of pressure. Tips of the caribou took the dye well enough (although it needed to stay in th bath longer), but the butts…
hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 black
egg sac - UniStretch black
rib - small wire hot yellow
body - Hare’s Ear Plus chocolate brown
hackle - grizzly dyed brown
shoulder - golden pheasant body feather yellow
collar/head - caribou dyed brown (3/4 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel, 1/ Tsp Rit Sunshine Orange/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
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End of the season whereby you then begin the start of the next stream season and fish the same fly?
Well, there will be some lake fishing in between, but yeah. I've got many rods, so I can present different ways. I can ESN or tightline it, two days I fished it under a bobber. Many times, like yesterday, I swing it. I love fishing down and across. Same fly, but I can tweak it for many different methods and seasons.End of the season whereby you then begin the start of the next stream season and fish the same fly?
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Hacklestacker midge, size 16, with a hat tip to @Bambooflyguy :
Do people who tie these use a gallows tool? I was really wanting a third hand for the hackle! I used uni-stretch for the post.
Do people who tie these use a gallows tool? I was really wanting a third hand for the hackle! I used uni-stretch for the post.
Bambooflyguy
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Looks fishy Zak! I made my gallows tool from an old metal paint can handle. I just use the tying thread to make the loop, after winding the hackle I press it downward towards the hook, pull over and tie the thread loop by the hook eye. It’s almost impossible to pull the hackle off….way stronger than a parachute. The fly sits flush in the surface film…..
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instead of "fur/feather/flash", I present, "fake fur/real fur/minimal flash/no feathers"
I grabbed some Squimpish fibers and god damn are they long! I had to trim back just to get a relatively decent balance of head/tail ration. But, I know they'll move well, and don't hold water in the slightest.
also, I managed to use a little from each of these incredible tails I received over the last week!
I grabbed some Squimpish fibers and god damn are they long! I had to trim back just to get a relatively decent balance of head/tail ration. But, I know they'll move well, and don't hold water in the slightest.
also, I managed to use a little from each of these incredible tails I received over the last week!
also, I managed to use a little from each of these incredible tails I received over the last week!
That's pure tail porn, right there
Scudley Do Right
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Scottp
Legend
RBP Muddler
Back end was inspired by Davie McPhail’s Big Mac Muddler; rest of fly was random bits and pieces.
hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - Uni 8/0 light olive
tail - yarn chartreuse/deer hair dyed red
rib - small wire hot yellow
body - dubbing dyed neon peach (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/8 Tsp Rit Coral/1 cup water)
hackle - ginger
shoulder - golden pheasant body feather red
collar/head - caribou dyed brown (3/4 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel, 1/ Tsp Rit Sunshine Orange/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
Back end was inspired by Davie McPhail’s Big Mac Muddler; rest of fly was random bits and pieces.
hook - WFC Model 6 #8
thread - Uni 8/0 light olive
tail - yarn chartreuse/deer hair dyed red
rib - small wire hot yellow
body - dubbing dyed neon peach (2 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/8 Tsp Rit Coral/1 cup water)
hackle - ginger
shoulder - golden pheasant body feather red
collar/head - caribou dyed brown (3/4 Tsp Rit Golden Yellow, 1/4 Tsp Rit Camel, 1/ Tsp Rit Sunshine Orange/2 cups water)
Regards,
Scott
Hah, I'm on a shrimp fly kick too.The Fur Pig farm. After seeing @jasmillo catching fish after fish with this when they refuse all else I just had to put my head down and do some production tying
Fur-pig...pattigrisen-ish thing.
