What Are You Tying This Week

[putemback]

Great photos of beautiful flies.

[Hankinsfly]

Nice pile, SLW!

[red 1]

Tied buggy the GRHE & Hare's Ear Nymp is one of my go to flies. They work year round. I tie a lot of flies, but if I had just one to fish it would be some version of a Hare's Ear.

[joaniebo]

Edmonds & Lee's 8b March Brown Spider. My favorite dressing to do.

[flyfishermann1955]

Bob,

That is not fair! You list the name of a fly; you even say it's your favorite to tie, but you don't include a picture. Why do you torture us like that?

Tight Lines- Ken

[upstate]

The Catskill from Tying American Trout Lures by Rube Cross (1936).

Hook. Mustad 94840 size 12
Silk. Pearsalls Gossamer hot orange #19
Wing. Wood duck.
Tail. Lt. Brown.
Body Orange with Lt. Brown Hackle tied Palmer.
Legs. Lt Brown Hackle.

[Loogie]

Been trying to hook up with a nice Redfish, wx not cooperating here in Amelia Island, but I did bring my Tying gear with me. Lots of black clousers for Speckled Trout. Had to adjust the color of my crabs for the flood tides in Spartina grass. Beautiful area Amelia Island, the tides are 6'! Plenty of shots at Reds but man are they tough! The Specks on the other had are plentiful and my wife always catches way more than me!

[joaniebo]

Bob,

That is not fair! You list the name of a fly; you even say it's your favorite to tie, but you don't include a picture. Why do you torture us like that?

Tight Lines- Ken

Ken

Just edited my post with an old pic. Sorry.

Bob

[flyfishermann1955]

Bob,

I appreciate the update. Two words come to mind: fish magnet!

Thanks- Ken

[Silver Doctor]

PMD.

[snorider]

Yooper or Looper? I love those patterns Norm. I really like that Martuch bros pattern, the "Hillbilly", Leon started a little fishing company called S.A... That moth is brilliant and I am tying some later tonight. Thanks for sharing.

[Bud]

Trout Spey

[flyfishermann1955]

Two versions of a Hendrickson soft hackle. For the fly on the left, I made a thread tag then used the split-thread method to dub the body. For the fly on the right, I made a dubbing rope on my Clark's spinning block and used Orvis brown thread.



Hook: Size 14 (wet fly)
Tail: Partridge fibers (brown)
Thread: Pearsall's Gossamer - Salmonberry (#35)
Body: Hare's ear and beaver dubbing
Blended in an old seed/coffee mill
Hackle: Golden Plover wing feather (2 turns)

Tight Lines- Ken

[NedZeppelin]

So many awesome ties!

[Vintagestick]

Trout Spey

Bud,

What is the material list for your Trout Spey? I really like the way it looks. Where and how do you fish it?

-Rich

[flyfishermann1955]

I'm on a pheasant tail kick, because--who doesn't like them? These are not the Sawyer original 2-material fly, but several options of the "Americanized fly".

1st up is the beadhead flashback nymph:



Next is a soft hackle version:



Finally, some soft hackle heresy. I added a bead; 1 version at the head and another with the bead at the thorax:



Tight Lines- Ken

[flyfishermann1955]

Caddis time -





Hook: Scud style - size 12
Tag: Mirage Tinsel - medium opal
Abdomen: Small chartreuse ultra wire inserted in clear micro stretch
tubing
Tubing colored with green & brown Pantone markers
Thorax: Ostrich herl - olive
Hackle: Midge flash - rootbeer
Partridge - 1 turn of brown & 1 turn of olive
Collar: Peacock
Bead: Black

Tight Lines- Ken

[Loogie]

EP Crab Flies for Mr. Redfish! Not a quick tie, but they sure work well!

[flyfishermann1955]

Lets get this thread going again.....................

I've started tying soft hackles/flymphs for an early June trip to PA's Brodhead Creek where Big Jim Leisenring did a lot of fishing.

Leisenring's Brown Hackle:



An Isonychia pattern by "Old Hat":



Tight Lines- Ken

[gt05254]

"Donation season" season is upon me, so tying up batches of salmon flies to give to organizations I support for fundraising. Just finished this batch of Celtic Beauties:


Got a new hip a week ago, so am getting help bringing materials up from the cave to tie up the next batch. Glitter Bears coming up.

Gary