Hey Fly Tiers...What's In The Vise?

[boondox]

try a tooth pick point to make the dot in the paint make small circles in the paint till there the size you want  it is a sign painters trick...

[rgfixit]

Modified Double Martini.



Gill killer

Rg

[Bartman44]

Looks tasty. Winter is moving right along.

I've set foam aside for  a bit as I'm restocking some favorites. Tied some white stuff.  My favorite is this bunny fly:

Size 2 and 4 streamer hook
Large barbell, tied Clouser style, with glued or painted eyes
Marabou tail
White bunny strip wrapped forward to the eye
finish with either white dubbing or cheniile wrapped around the eye. 

Easy tie. Sometimes they just like white




 

[rgfixit]

Looking good Bart.

That's really big stuff for me. I rarely tie beyond a #8.....except for carp flies. What are you targeting with them?

Rg

[Bartman44]

Looking good Bart.

That's really big stuff for me. I rarely tie beyond a #8.....except for carp flies. What are you targeting with them?

Rg

These  



I like to throw the big stuff.  On the Delaware system, alewives tumble over the Cannonsville Reservoir during high water  springs,  creating a feeding frenzy at times and the alewives are pretty big.

On the other hand, I have a good assortment of small stuff too. Here's one I'm stocking up on now. My Clouser black ghost (in 6@8). I originally tied this for my trips to Maine but it works very well on rivers around here when they don't want the double cheeseburger.  One day this past November, I had several follows from big browns on a large fly. I snipped off the big one before I cast again, tied on the small ghost, and they creamed it on the next cast.

Clouser eye, black floss, silver tinsel, grey and yellow deer hair(stacked), with a little flash.



 

[rgfixit]

Sweet looking patterns. Sure wish I lived down your way.

I've had a damselfly nymph pattn rattling around in my head the last few days. So I took a whack at it.





It's getting there.


The top two I tied the abdomins on a needle and transferred them to the hook.

Rg

[boondox]

sweet fly rg look kind like a dragon nymph from my end of the computer so don't throw that bug away.. can use dragon nymph for fishing gills to and trout...they are a tad bigger then damsel nymphs but are for sure fun to tie no mater what your tying lol's... 

[big_guy_13021]

Can I dearange work benches over here.

[rgfixit]

Seems that one of my pictures is missing as well.

Rg

[big_guy_13021]

I'm missing a few also...but that's OK I'll find more to post my whole photo bucket is empty...

[big_guy_13021]

this is my favorite pic..rg loves it..

[rgfixit]

"The horror.......the horror!"




Seems they're back up and running ok. Good thing, I have a ton of photos stored there. It's still stuttering a bit, but they'll fix it I'm sure.

Rg

[Mac Attack]

I never noticed it was down Bob.
Musta been I was snoozing.

[boondox]

bartman44 have you read bob's book on salt water fly tying? if you have you say the same thing I am about to say is the clouser minnow you tied are up side down? the why is you tied it right lol's... for every one else info  them lead eyes land down and ride hook point up when fished so when you pick colors to do on which side you do the white on top and yellow on bottom of the eyes if you want a lateral line or darker shade on top or vise versa... but nice ties none the less there bartman44!   

[rgfixit]

I wasn't gonna say anything Boon. Many is the time I've tied them wrong side up. But, Bart's no novice. I'm sure it works for him.

Took a break from fly tying to work on my rod building bench.





It's getting there. I have a 10', 6wt to build

Rg