What have you tied today?

[Wildfisher]

Yes he knows his stuff. You have to be good at catching fish to become the English rivers champion. No matter what you think about competition fishing (and I cannot abide it) the top guys are very good anglers.

[Wildfisher]

Same thing again with an under-wing of olive Aero Wing added for yet more buoyancy.

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[Lochan_load]

My take on an intruder, first time using this type of hook

The Char Sui

[lochgarryfisher]

That is one awfully bonnie neat fly!  Almost harking back to traditional classic salmon fly tying with a modern twist, cross between a General Practitioner and a Green Highlander?
How you have managed to place those 3 strands of black (ostrich herl?) so neatly i will never know!

[Allan Crawford]

Yes nice fly but need to see what it looks like in the water ?

[Lochan_load]

I was trying to tie an intruder streamer in char colours for Garry but the only hook that had a long enough shank was this trad salmon hook, it came out looking quite classic but that wasn't the intention!!
It's a bit rougher in 'real life' than the photo shows but if I did fly fish for salmon (I don't) I'd be happy to give it a chuck, the colours work quite well together so I'll use them together for something a bit more useful

[lochgarryfisher]

A friend saw my new fly box and was horrified by the size of some of them so tied him some more traditional smaller ones he could chuck with his 5wt
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Whilst i had my stuff out though i couldn't resist trying to copy Lochan's Black Nun above, don't have any silver squirrel so substituted it with German Shepherd neck hair, never been a fan of marabou before but think i may be converted with the Scandinavian spinning technique
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[bibio1]

Lookin forward to seeing the fishing results . You are certainly trail blazing.

[corsican dave]

stealth bomber; this one's on a #4, but i'm gonna do some size 8 "babies" for muckle troot....

[Allan Crawford]

Looks good for the big trout from the bigger lochs like Lochy for example. Problem with Lochy is getting a boat on it but as you can carry that Kayak of yours ..... :wink: