What have you tied today?

[bibio1]

Can't wait till tomorrow.... Tied some Mac's emergers

[Wildfisher]

A variation on Mac's grey and red dry spider. I don't have a good grey or blue dun cape so I spun on some dun Aero Wing then wound the red game hackle through it. Quill body with a UV resin coating.

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[JimJams]

These 4 have been stonker's for me in the first week, fish seem to like um!

The zulu's tied with a bit of red ice yarn in the tail, has a bit of flicker and seems to work well!

[claytonmcnie]

Nice flies like number 3 but 4 is the type I use when given the chance, tidy.

[Lochan_load]

Number 1 for me, like the two time body and nice tidy head, you using cock hackles?

[JimJams]

Thank's, yeah cock hackles, some 14's just dropped through the door, they'll be fun to try tie with!

[SoldierPmr]

Thank's, yeah cock hackles, some 14's just dropped through the door, they'll be fun to try tie with!

14 is my most used size especialy for palmered wets it's rare I tie any size 12s now.

[SoldierPmr]

Since all the talk of leggy wets I decided to make a sparkley leggy SP size 12 for the legs

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With flash.

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[rannoch raider]

I often fish a 'gingked' up 'soldier muddler',  on the bob and tend to go a size beyond what conditions would suggest. It doesn't always take the fish, that can depend on what sort of mood they're in but it certainly draws them up and I often find that a fish will have a swirl at the big soldier only to come short. However, that fish often turns it's attention to either of the other two flies on the cast. I find that if I fish a smaller more imitative pattern on the middle and tail I often get a positive take.
Your SP's are bulky enough to get the attention of the fish and that is a big plus for a bob fly in my book.  :wink:

[Wildfisher]

Soft Hackle Dry

This is a  variation on Jonathan Barnes' (onstream guide) soft hackle dry which is in turn a variation of a Jingler.

I used pheasant tail ice dub for the very slim body as I'm sure this can make a difference - I catch a lot of fish with it anyway.  Tail - grizzle hackle fibers, wing is a single CDC plume. Hackle red game clipped beneath then a  soft partridge hackle is wound through it. Barnes claims this style of fly out fishes all other dries for him. It's nothing new - soft hackle = movement = jingler = CDC & Elk etc etc etc. There is not a lot in fly tying that is new. I'm going to tie a few up with a white CDC wing to aid visibility on the water.

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