What's in your vise?
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Reading your note: "turkey feathers sprayed with glue" really takes me back. I started tying flies when my wife and I moved to Klamath Falls - I couldn't afford a fly rod back then so I used a spinning rod with a bubble and hung flies below the bubble except for muddler minnows. I fished them with a couple split shot, no bubble; they worked really well in the Klamath River. But were they a bugger to tie with their varnished turkey feather wings. Losing one to a snag might have caused a cuss or two. Fascinating following this thread to see how innovative tyers are these days. Thanks Scott for your ingenuity.Weedless Muddler
Mulching the yard for the past week so I put some scraps of the weed block fabric to use. Been a while since I’ve played with this stuff; what I have now is much thinner, more flexible, easier to work with and it appears to be pretty durable (much more so than turkey feathers sprayed with glue).
hook - Dai Riki 280 #6
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body - dubbing hare’s ear
hackle - light ginger
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing - landscape fabric
collar/head - deer hair
Regards,
Scott
Cowlitz Bottomfeeder
Life of the Party
I was having a senior moment. It’s really a balanced damsel, but don’t tell anyone.
Evans' Chameleon
I thought you were going to share a recipe that might be less prone to algae and other goop in the head. The fish sure seem to noticeWeedless Muddler
Mulching the yard for the past week so I put some scraps of the weed block fabric to use. Been a while since I’ve played with this stuff; what I have now is much thinner, more flexible, easier to work with and it appears to be pretty durable (much more so than turkey feathers sprayed with glue).
hook - Dai Riki 280 #6
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body - dubbing hare’s ear
hackle - light ginger
shoulder - sharptail grouse
wing - landscape fabric
collar/head - deer hair
Regards,
Scott
. Lovley tie!Hi
What hooks are these?
I'm out on a trip so not 100% sure on size but AJ irons in either 7 or 9
Scottp
Legend
DHH+ Hopper
Deer hair loop and saddle were wrapped together; creates a Jingler effect.
hook - WFC Model 10 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body/head - 3mm foam tan
legs - medium round rubber brown
indicator - 1mm foam orange
hackle - deer hair (loop dubbed)/grizzly saddle
Regards,
Scott
Deer hair loop and saddle were wrapped together; creates a Jingler effect.
hook - WFC Model 10 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 tan
body/head - 3mm foam tan
legs - medium round rubber brown
indicator - 1mm foam orange
hackle - deer hair (loop dubbed)/grizzly saddle
Regards,
Scott
Drab little bugger. I’ve liked the pheasant rump marabou recently.
That is super sexy. I fished a similar hares ear all day yesterday, upstream then swinging down. Should get a lot of attention for you.
Thank you!
Haven’t posted ties for a while as thought my phone camera was crap, user error as always. Having a last hurrah for the summer on a now pretty weedy lake and so lobbing a floating olive leach on a type 7 into the weeds seems like an option. I forget who on here has been noting this but a possible way for weed free fun
Dave
Dave
Somehow missed capturing the palmer with the wire with the one on the right so there's only 2-3 turns behind the hackle. I think I should be wrapping these palmers with extra 5x rib as I don’t think the wire holds really securely and sometimes end up trimming a bit of palmered hackle in the field.
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Scottp
Legend
Deer Hair Jingler
Just started throwing stuff at the hook with no thought in mind. Maybe a brown drake? - local river used to have a decent hatch, and some nice fish would come up, but that ended a long time ago. Might give the lake in town a try because they’re still there, although hooking a Jet Ski is a more likely outcome.
hook - WFC Model 3 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 brown
tail - pheasant rump
ribbing - Uni 6/0 camel
abdomen - deer hair
thorax - deer hair spun/clipped
hackle - grizzly
shoulder - pheasant rump
Regards,
Scott
Just started throwing stuff at the hook with no thought in mind. Maybe a brown drake? - local river used to have a decent hatch, and some nice fish would come up, but that ended a long time ago. Might give the lake in town a try because they’re still there, although hooking a Jet Ski is a more likely outcome.
hook - WFC Model 3 #8
thread - SemperFli 8/0 brown
tail - pheasant rump
ribbing - Uni 6/0 camel
abdomen - deer hair
thorax - deer hair spun/clipped
hackle - grizzly
shoulder - pheasant rump
Regards,
Scott
Bring your 12wt.