What have you tied today?

[Lochan_load]

All great flies on this page, love the furnace Bibio Paul and that muddler will push plenty water Allan, ideal when the winds up.

[haresear]

Passion Vine Hopper.

Tapered foam body and organza wing. Not sure about the colours, I have a limited range of marker pens. The fly is 1cm long, which is apparently the size of the actual insects.

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That should be pretty effective Fred.

[Wildfisher]

That should be pretty effective Fred.

Thanks Alex. I went to some trouble to get it right.  :

Found a top view  image of a PVH online. Loaded it into Photoshop, resized it to 1cm.
Printed it out.
Cut roughly round the print out, glued it to a bit of stiff card then varnished it with Hard As Nails - several coats to make it stronger.
Cut it out when dry, leaving a long stalk on the head end.

This template was the result

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To make the wing I cut out a square of white organza then varnished it with Hard As Nails so it would not fall to bits.
Placed the template on  the varnished organza once it was dry, cut round it leaving a stalk at the head for tying in.
Coloured the cut wing with markers then gave it another coat of Hard As Nails
Cut a small triangle of  foam, tied it in at the bend of the hook, wound it forward over superglue to form the steep taper body and tied it off.
Tied in the organza wing
Tied it off forming a head with the thread.

Sounds complex, but now I have the temple  can tie these  reasonably quickly.   :lol:

[haresear]

Thanks Alex. I went to some trouble to get it right.  :

Found a top view  image of a PVH online. Loaded it into Photoshop, resized it to 1cm.
Printed it out.
Cut roughly round the print out, glued it to a bit of stiff card then varnished it with Hard As Nails - several coats to make it stronger.
Cut it out when dry, leaving a long stalk on the head end.

This template was the result

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To make the wing I cut out a square of white organza then varnished it with Hard As Nails so it would not fall to bits.
Placed the template on  the varnished organza once it was dry, cut round it leaving a stalk at the head for tying in.
Coloured the cut wing with markers then gave it another coat of Hard As Nails
Cut a small triangle of  foam, tied it in at the bend of the hook, wound it forward over superglue to form the steep taper body and tied it off.
Tied in the organza wing
Tied it off forming a head with the thread.

Sounds complex, but now I have the temple  can tie these  reasonably quickly.   :lol:

Excellent. I will take half a dozen :lol:

[Wildfisher]

 :lol:

[pedropete]

bumbling about this morning with these clan chief style bumbles, not a pattern or style I've tied or fished yet, but I'm sure they will get wet soon, I'm still learning the ropes regarding wild fishing... 8# short-shank barbless hooks. a busy pattern, I'm sure it will be just as rewarding fishing it as it is to tie up.

[Robbie]

Very nice indeed!

[rannoch raider]

Nice Pete. There's a whole lot happening in those bumbles !

[pedropete]

aye cheers lads, I enjoy messing about with this style of tying, what do you think the Uist seatrout would say to these?

[Robbie]

Not much, they'd probably be too busy eating them  :lol: