What have you tied today?

[Fishtales]

The picture I have in Goddard's Waterside Guide shows the wing longer and grey, tied in farther from the eye with a short head of tying silk then the hackle then the true head of the fly.

Still looks a nice fly and you are right it is tyed to represent Caddis larvae.

[Malcolm]

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Some stuff I've done over the past few days.

I've been tying a lot of flies doubled this winter a couple of examples of the type of thing attached. I've already posted the double caenis so I don't need to post any more spinner patterns.

At the top left is a double cdc joined by lashing two hooks together. I may decide to take a pair of wirecutters to the first hook in future.

Below it is a double sparkle dun, this time tied on the same hook.

The big fly top right is my big green caterpiller which is a great fly to chuck under overhanging branches in summer
A couple of variants of the fluo green spider at bottom left

and last there is a polywing spinner

Haven't got used to my wife's compact camera yet.

(edit) I should have said for scale that the caterpiller is on a 12 longshank and the double cdc is tied on b160s size 16

[Clan Chief]

Tied this flee this morning it was successful this afternoon.

[Clan Chief]

Of sorts! I used very dark claret pheasant tail fibres for the tail. much more robust that the marabou which I dislike tying wise.

[Black-Don]

Very similar to a dancer type fly with the omission of the marabou tail as noted.

Some cracking flees on this page, I meant to say before that Breac's box looks very nice and particularly liked the two Turks he's included.

Cracking tyings there Malcolm no doubt brought about through years of experience.

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The picture I have in Goddard's Waterside Guide shows the wing longer and grey, tied in farther from the eye with a short head of tying silk then the hackle then the true head of the fly.

Still looks a nice fly and you are right it is tyed to represent Caddis larvae.

Must try and get a picture of this as I reckon it would be a good fly. I copied an Ombudsman which came from scotfly and used turkey in the wings as per his tying. I did google the fly first but reckonned the pattern I had would've been truer to the original.

[Fishtales]

Here you are

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[scotfly]

A couple of simple blacks..

Simple Black Bead Head



HOOK - TMC2488 #22
THREAD - Black Orvis 12/0
BEAD - 1.5mm Black Tungsten
BODY - Thread (varnished, single coat)
THORAX - Single strand Peacock Herl.

Simple Black Nymph-Head



HOOK - Grip 14731 #18
THREAD - Black Orvis 12/0
BEAD - 2.4mm Stonefly Black-Nickel Nymph-Head (Painted Yellow Deco-Color Eye)
BODY - Thread (varnished, single coat)
THORAX - Single strand Peacock Herl.

[Clan Ford]

Nice Mark,

What hook are you using there?  I like the shape.

Norm

[scotfly]

Even more olives  :lol:



HOOK - TMC 200R #22
THREAD - Olive 10/0 Gudebrod
TAILS - Microfibetts
BODY - Olive Super Fine Dry Fly Dub #14
WING POST - Hareline dubbin inc Micro Foam
HACKLE - Golden Olive Cock
THORAX - BWO  Super Fine Dry Fly Dub  #9

And a paraloop version.



Same dressing but on a Partridge K14ST #20 and an olive Z-Lon tail.

[Clan Chief]

Yeah! like the paraloop flee. That's a technique I have yet to try.
Tied this flee tonight. The head hackle is a feather of many I acquired today from a roadkill pheasant on the A73.