What have you tied today?

[scotty9]

Lovely flies Col! I need to get tying up some of these for myself!

[scotty9]

They do look great Mark! I've got a bookmarked list of all your steps by steps ready to be tied up... thanks for openly posting them!

[haresear]

Alex do you have a hackle colour preferance for parachutes for  olive upright hatches ?

I started off using yellow hackles Col, but when I ran out ginger worked just as well.

Olive uprights were hatching today on the first river we fished and I got a 2lb 6oz on a today on a no-hackle fly, so maybe I was talking pish in my post when I said this...

I tie something similar to your CDC for a general olive pattern, but find a lightish olive-bodied parachute on a 14 does as well, or better for the olive upright.

Moved on to river 2 and had another nice fish at 1lb 12oz. It was hard work though.

Alex

[Scotaidh]

In preparation for my visit to south Uist.

[Clan Chief]

Love the look of those flees fellla particularly like the first one which appears to be a variation of a Kate?

[Malcolm]

Nice flies. Is the last one tied with a cock feather in order to kick in medium fast water?

[paulr]

Nice flies, I especially like the Machair Spider, a great fly.
cheers
Paul

[Scotaidh]

Cheers guys.

That last spider does well on calm summer days on the lochs.  I rarely fish rivers, although I have got a season for the Eden this year (4 outings, 6 hours of fishing, no fish), so I have no idea Malcolm!  I have to say though the hackle is actually from a badger hen cape, the white tips are almost free of webbing and is quite cocky, tied in wet fly style as opposed to spider style because I thought it looked "better."

The first one is a bright orange take on a Kate MacLaren right enough, it has taken a fair few bandies for me...

[Robbie]

Playing with a new toy tonight so thought I'd make use of the results:



Robbie

[Andrew Moray]

had to resort to gink and hackles :shock:

Not just any hackle - GRIZZLE hackle  :shock:, for the Clyde ?!
The big bad fire awaits  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjvqY-U9gV0


All the best Mark, and thanks for sharing.
Tony