What have you tied today?

[Harpo]

rubbered prince

What like Prince Harry after too many Lagers ....great flies on this post chaps, inspiring for the coming season

[.D.]

Tonight ive done a couple of  prince nymphs, i really like this fly especially when theres a wee bit colour in the water. For the beaded version i omit the hackle , ive also done the rubber leg/tailed version . Both are tried and tested .
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Prince nymph
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rubbered prince or Prince Harry

Excellent stuff - I like peacock herl nymphs. . Peacock herl has magickal properties.  I use one myself with little rubber legs too sometimes.

I wonder why they don't have the same following as hare's ears and pheasant tails over here. Perhaps it's the very shaggy profile, and the limited range of colours. Or is it just the relative fragility of the herl, compared with fur-bodied flies?

.D.

[Fishtales]

Another way is to use a ball point pen. Remove the inside and push the small end over the eye of the hook and push the hair back.

Also you could get a small piece of cork, foam or wood and stick it on the free hook and mask the point.

[Fishtales]

That is what you do with the ball point pen Breac. After each bunch of deer hair you push it back with the pen till all the bunches are tyed in then you finish off the fly.

What I use to lay the hackles down before tying in the wing is a small piece of the end of the inner, that is the tube with the ink, which you cut through on one side allowing the thread through as it goes over the eye, you then tye in the wing. The slit also allows it to be removed over the bend of the hook before removing it from the vice.

[The General]

The tied fly looped through the eye of a kamasan 12 is a size 18 and I really would struggle to find a line that would knot and present the
fly in a delicate enough way to catch.  This is an attempt at copying Ian's wee fly.  What line do you use when down amongst the 20's and
22's.

Davie

[Scotaidh]

My attempt at the Teal and Green that we talked about the other day and something I gypsied from the "other" forum.

Thanks to all those who commented on my flies before.  I find it hard to find enthusiasm for tying in the close season but posting their mugshot on here makes it worthwhile.

[Fishtales]

Sometimes I think you have been flicking through my library Davy

[Fishtales]

Mine is slightly different from yours. There is no number at the tying instructions and the pictures are different too.

Let's Fish Again by Robert C. Sharp paperback 1985?

[Malcolm]

Lovely looking flies Breac. If they were mine I'd clip the hackle underneath and fish them dry, as I couldna catch fish on traditional loch wets to save my life.

Gav,

What size are these flies? they are the sort of thing I'd use in size 16s and 18s on a river

[paulr]

Sat and tied some "tag" flies this afternoon, hoping they will be the sort of thing that the fish will be looking for at the start of the season, I dont know what they are, if they are anything at all ??


They look like absolute killers Gav.My kind of flies,nice and simple.I'm sure you'll catch plenty of brownies on them.
Cheers
Paul