What have you tied today?

[dseabass]

thanks guys,  thanks davie, your right the classes are great, highlight of my week
ill download that too davie, 
thanks chatter i wonder too if theyll catch, or maybe fall to bits, the brownies are the real experts though, i canna wait to try them all    mick

no bad muddler55  :lol:-----they might work at aw they rainbow dubs ye go tae as well   :crap :crap    :lol: :lol:

only jokin they look pretty dam good and its a wee jealousy thing when am still payin a ? for three   ---yr right though roll on those longer days --small ripple --fish dimplin the surface

[Clan Ford]

Col,

Those are some cracking fleas, this is a great thread :  Must get tying.

Norm

[Harpo]

Col, we know a wee stream in Perthshire  : where I think that Yellow May Dunn Emerger would do the business, I saw a lot of them hatching in June last year

[.D.]

.D. - You've got to figure that a good proportion of the tails on traditional patters represent shucks and tippet tails have been used on patterns for so long that they have to be doing something right. I just like them slimmer and a little longer than on the commercially avalaible jobs otherwise there's no life and movement to them for me. Would like to see your snowshoe Adams trude idea - go for it. 

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Cheers,

Ian   

There you go, Ian.




Fairly typical Adams Trude, though they do seem to vary quite a lot in proportion, especially of the wing. The tails are often deer (usually Moose) hair, though it's not my preference.





The one with a Coq de Leon shuck/tail I alluded to some time  earlier in this thread. Couple of turns too much hackle on that one for my tastes :oops:. Works OK.




Curved hook job (after a pattern I've seen on the internet tied on an ordinary straight-shanked hook by some chap called Peter Frailey).





Cheers,

.D.


PS - I use slightly brownish American Mink rather than blue-grey Muskrat dubbing.

[Crawhin]

Lovely flies .D. and as always wonderfully clear photography. Particularly like the bottom scruffy-bodied emerger - has all the hallmarks of a great searching pattern for me.

Good shout on the hackle quill bodies Col. some great effects coming out and a useful change from the peacock quill. My first few attenpts herewith:-


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Cheers,

Ian

[Clan Chief]

What are the materials for the second last fly . I really like that one . Think I'll have a go at copying that pattern if you don't mind.

[Crawhin]

Hi Clan - if it was my second last that you were after (?) then it's pretty simple:- large stripped black hackle for the body with a couple of coats of varnish afterwards, white poly-yarn wing tied flat over the body and a black and white grizzle hackle snipped close underneath.

Cheers,

Ian

[Clan Chief]

Cheers for that

[muddler54]

the one at the top was last years, good fish catcher early on
so ive tried to copy it,   dont know what there called   ill call them green butts

[Black-Don]

I know some folk will think this is a wind up and phone the Fly Police when they see it but it is actually a very effective fly for larger Browns. Also extremely effective when tied in Olive.

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I'm currently awaiting some new materials so hopefully will be able to post a couple of Dabbler's I intend to tie soon.

( I'll need to check out the attachment instructions for future pics as I had to upload this via photobucket. )