What have you tied today?

[corsican dave]

I think i'm beginning to get the hang of this. I shot it with a white background so you can see the translucent effect that's the essence of these patterns
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i'm out of silver pheasant now.... :roll:

[haresear]

You are definitely getting the hang of it Dave. It would be shame to use that and risk some alien spoiling the look

Alex

[corsican dave]

You are definitely getting the hang of it Dave. It would be shame to use that and risk some alien spoiling the look

Alex

cheers, Alex!  i'd trade it for a pb tho', no worries. i'm not about to start framing the things :lol:

[rannoch raider]

There's something really nice about that last one Dave. I can see that working well fished deep on loch Leven. It's not a million miles removed from the Elver patterns either. What size of hook are you tying them on ?

[corsican dave]

#3/0 kamasan uptides b950u. reasonably cheap @£1.50 for 6. i'd run out of salmon hooks  :lol:

[bibio1]

Yip all of them are great tyings.  When you look at the flies on this thread the diversity is just amazing.

Page 400 gets ever closer as well, which is equally amazing.

[Wildfisher]

Beautifully tied fly Dave. Unfortunately after 1/2 dozen cast it will look like mince.  :lol:  The good news however is it will still catch fish, in fact often the scruffier wet  flies are the more effective they become.

[Lochan_load]

My first for quite some time and includes two new components for me. Firstly a veniard osprey Scandinavian double hook which is excellent, really tough and well forged. The osprey hooks are a bit hit and miss but i tend  to try them out because they are a good bit cheaper, these though were 10 for £10 but you can tell the quality is there. The other is blue lure flash, £1.80 for a big hank and it's a nice 'seatrouty' teal blue. Probably quite useful even for a wee fleck in a teal blue and silver. Nothing ground breaking but it's broke my duck, prepare to get fed up of looking at my flies again!!
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[corsican dave]

it might be a long time before you see the next one. a very, very long time indeed. I've just been introduced to the dubious delights of oliver Edwards  :lol:

on second thoughts, life's too short; i'll stick to the foam ear-plugs and 5/0 hooks  :

[Lochan_load]

Same materials but muddled
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