What have you tied today?

[RichardL]

Nice looking fly tho Harpo.  I am sure it will work for the grayling!  Can you now tie me up 16 DHE's?  Ta

[Harpo]

Can you now tie me up 16 DHE's?  Ta

Aye for your retirement pressie  :shock:

[scotty9]

Made my very first two flies without any assistance today   First one is very messy (learning curve) but i think the second is just about fishable. I decided I was only going to practice with flies that I would fish with so once i get them right i have a good flybox! Started with the ADHE (Almost deer hair emerger  :lol:) Dubbing colours are a bit off but i just bought a couple packets in GAC to let me start tying, going to buy more specifics off the net.

The second fly took a whopping 30mins to tie  :shock: :lol: Hopefully tying time will go down with practice...

The shocker:



The improver:





Any hints/tips gratefully received!  

[haresear]

those look pretty good Scott. On the DHE, I like a really slim abdomen to get through the surface film, but yours are not bad. Not your abdomen I mean :shock: - the fly's.

As Ardbeg says, I'd go for a spikey thorax surrounding the wing, as that is the key to getting the DHE to float right.

Alex

[scotty9]

Cheers guys, will have a play with it tomorrow again. Anyone tried just a thread body? Super skinny! Will try and tie up a load of different ones and see what i like best! Just wish i could try them... 

[paulr]

Nice flee Steve,
I love flexifloss for emerger bodies, easy to use and looks like a nice segmented insecty body.Cuts through the surface no bother either so usually always lands the right way up.My fly for the river swap is a flexifloss klinky thing.
cheers
Paul

[garryh]

hi haven't posted on this thread for a while but here's my efforts so far this close season.can anybody guess what type of fishing I'm looking forward to next year

cheers Garry

[River Chatter]

They're like an arm of well kitted out sodgers waitin' to go into battle. Very tidy!

[garryh]

size 12 wire nymphs and spiders ,they are not really that heavy.got addicted to upstream nymphing last season(Cols fault) :lol:

cheers Garry

[Harpo]

Nice flies Garry, you did well on the up stream Nymphing last year, a technique i've given too little of my  time to learning.