What have you tied today?

[Malcolm]

You lot put my "working" flies to shame.

So for the mortals here is what I've been tying for the last hour - 40 of these in various colours and in sizes 14 and 16. It's a seals fur dry - nothing to it; seals fur body, couple of turns of hackle and clip the hackle underneath. I've been using these unchanged for the last 27 years now and still are amongst my top 2 or 3 fish catchers every year.

[thewaterbouys]

Heres one From Across The Pond That I Tried Tying

[Malcolm]

nice fly Malcolm, do you just change the body colours or do you also mix up the combinations by changing the hackle colours ?

Gavin,

I tend to use either grey or grizzle whatever comes to hand first! I've never found any difference.

I've got a few specials for specific hatches where I marry up colours: yellow body and white hackle for the yellow may dun emerger and another version (amber and honey) for a huge golden buzzer than comes out in some lochs near Tomich and a couple of others. You can see how easy it would be to fill up a box just with one basic fly style! 

[thewaterbouys]

   Col  i think it is  with the copper beimg used as the attractor and added weight.

   Henry

[haresear]

I tend to use either grey or grizzle whatever comes to hand first! I've never found any difference.

I think you and I have much the same approach to flytying Malcolm. That is probably not a good thing for you

Alex

[Clan Chief]

Very nice indeed. I am not a salmon fisher myself but I have been meaning to try tying salmon flees for the first time for some time now. Your flee may well have given me the inspiration to have a go,Cheers.

[Wildfisher]

Nice sly col. I really like salmon flies, not so keen on fishing them, but the flies are bonny.

[Crawhin]

Another mixed bag of patterns in this weekend's tyings:-

I really liked Col's tidy CDC klink so tied a couple including this emerging olive with sparkle shuck, stripped ostrich herl body and CDC wing -


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Nymph with olive pheasant tail body and ostrich herl thorax -


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Continued 'bugging up' some traditionals like the Conemara Black, Greenwell's Glory and Whickham's Fancy -


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Another big flashy tandem - am determined to throw some of these out this season to see what they can provoke! -


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And another pike saltwater baitfish pattern. I like the effect of the long, straggling UV fritz which is somewhere between a wing and a body and gives a good silhouette. Like Breac I've bought a bunch of sea fishing hooks for these - a lot cheaper than buying specialist pike/saltwater fly tying hooks and should be just as corrosion-resistant. This ones a Mustad size 1/0 uptide hook.


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Cheers,


Ian C

[Ian_M]

Very well tied flies Ian.  I particularly like the variations on the traditionals.  You may just have coaxed me to the vice.

[invictor]

Lovely flies Ian. The traditional bugged up look great. Can you tell me what hook that is?.

Alistair.