What Are You Tying This Week

[putemback]

It is snowing today in Colorado and the football games on television are too boring to watch. Ergo, to the vise for fly tying session. There is a thread that concerns what are you fishing this week but have not seen one concerning tying. I am new to fishing soft hackles so I figured I would start at the foundation which to me would be the fly itself. So, I will begin with trying to imitate some soft hackle flies that were given to me by Bill Blackburn to fish on the Firehole this fall.

What are you tying this week?

[Hankinsfly]

Cool idea for an ongoing thread.

[Norm Frechette]

nothing yet but i want to try tying game changers

[jim royston]

Kind of a Puglisi Mantis Shrimp with a little dash of Spawning Shrimp thrown in for good measure. I'll get to fish them on Sunday.

[flyfishermann1955]

From Leisenring & Hidy's The Art of Tying the Wet Fly & Fishing the Flymph

Light Snipe & Yellow:



Hook: Size 14 1 XL
Body: Pearsall's Gossamer
It calls for Primrose (#3), but I used Yellow (Lemon) (#5)
Rib: XS Gold Wire
Hackle: Snipe

Tight Lines- Ken

[PYochim]

Now that my son is living in the west I have him to tie for in addition to my wife, daughter and son-in-law. I just finished a batch of stonefly nymphs. Time to start on the dries. Parachute Adams, Pale Morning Duns, Green Drakes and Quill Gordon tied parachute style. I usually buy terrestrials but may give them a try this winter.

[Loogie]

I'll be tying some Christmas deceivers for a fly swap. They will be green red and white.

[bassman]

Here's my Christmas Chironomid Loogie...Size 12 2xl curved hook


And this is the Holy Grail Caddis Emerger...Size 14 Firehole Caddis for a swap


And a Trico on a soon never to be seen again size 32 Tiemco...

[richardawalker]

Have been tying big pink and chartreuse chum salmon flies. My first fall in Washington and I keep hearing they will start to run any day now.

[tonkin67]

Living on the CT shore with the fall still going strong , I'm tying the prevalent bait . Some EP fiber peanut bunker. I lost the ones I had to Bluefish.

[flyfishingpastor]

Emergers of all kinds.

Pat

[Silver Doctor]

Ants

[flyfishermann1955]

From left to right, Partridge & Lemon, Partridge & Orange, Partridge & Olive.

I like to wrap the body smooth going from front to back, then spin the thread and bring it forward as a rib. Also add a peacock thorax and use the darkest partridge feathers for the hackle.



Still working to improve my photography skills!

Tight Lines- Ken

[Hankinsfly]

Looks great, Ken!

[red 1]

Just something buggy

[gt05254]

Starting a couple (maybe 3) sets of Cains River Streamers to frame up for fundraisers. Been a lot of fun figuring out -with the help of several good guys, including John McCain at FeathersMC and Bryant Freeman up in New Brunswick - how to dye some saddles French Blue. Was fun ordering up appropriate dyes, etc. Already had appropriate hooks, thank heavens.
Gary

[red 1]

Just some wet flies tonight.
All size 14. Slight variations. All are fun to fish.

[slw]

I just finished this mess of Usuals, Comparaduns, and Compara Spinners for a friend. I've lost track of how many there are, but it's a bunch more than the picture looks like. The #16s and #18s are buried by the #12s and #14s. I'm glad to be done for now, but will start another project after taking a break.

[mcflyfish]

Working on flies for Patagonia in Feb...taking my son so I had to tie two boxes of everything!

[Norm Frechette]

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