What's in your vise?
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Variation of the Hornberg
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Variation of the Hornberg
Found on flyfishingthesierra dot com
Streamer Adaptation of a Theodore Gordon Bumblepuppy Fly Pattern
🠊Adapted by Ruben Martin🠈
Streamer Fly Pattern
Hook - Long straight eye shank (I used Daiichi 2370)
Thread - White flat waxed nylon
Tail - Red bucktail under white hackles
Ribbing - Red wire
Body - Embossed silver tinsel
Belly - White bucktail
Wing - Gray squirrel tail
Head - Built up with tying thread and colored red with a sharpie marker
Eyes - Silver and black stick on
Head coating - UV Resin followed by Sally Hansen Hard as Nails
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I’ve recently discovered the joy of a spool of ultrawire going haywire (pun intended)…I unwound enough to put in large coils and stored in a small ziplock bag to use first
I t r i e d to untagle the mess, I like your idea of a zip lock bag, I'll just cut short sections off as needed. This spool of ultrawire reminds me of an old intermediate line that acted more like a slinky than fly line.
I have 3 intermediate lines from three different manufactures, they all look the same, they all handle like s**t. My intermediate lines get used the least of all my lines as a result. I also have some wire that looked like that too. I just pulled all the loose wire off and carefully rewrapped it, problem solved. My intermediate lines still suck though.
Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
I just ash canned a line just like that
WonkyWapiti
Steelhead
I took a fly tying class where one of the instructors had a brilliant and simple solution to the crazy wire problems. Cut a piece of plastic comb binding (the type you get at a print store when you have college notes or something similar made. Cut it to fit the spool and wrap it around the wire and it will hold everything. It works amazingly well!
I did the same thing with that damn intermediate - I tied it to a post and the ball on my truck trying to stretch it straight, when I put my foot on the clutch, the line pulled the truck backwards, uphill.
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This has a little bit of just about everything...FTD big fly fiber, FTD flash (black), Primotail (AA for the Chartreuse under-tail, A for the body--after dark), rattle, foam, weight on the hook bend for a keel, FTD dubbed head, FTD dragon eyes....all squeezed onto an Ahrex 4/0 TP610. I may trim up the tail a touch to make it less blocky, but I'm going to wait until after I swim it.
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will do the trick.
Pink Nighty
Legend
ok, I have to ask, what the hell is that pink shit?
that said, I bet that looks pretty good swimming in the water...
Pink Nighty
Legend
Its pink craft fur spun onto thread! Dont matter how pretty it starts, I can ugly it right up!
Looks like a baby rainbow to me.
Why not wrap the entire body with the silver wire and then wrap over it with a red and/or black rib to give contrast? On a small fly that could make an epic chromie type tie.
Dave
Solar Panel Nymph
Hook – Mustad 3906 or equivalent
Bead – Black brass or tungsten
Thread - Tan
Tail - Brown hackle fibers
Under body – Gold krystal flash
Over body – Rust color v-rib or liquid lace tubing
Wing case - Gold krystal flash
Thorax – Tan ice dubbing
Legs - Gold krystal flash