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Whats everyone been tying?

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#1 ·
Show your stuff... I have a bad eye and have been home all day whiped up a few flys.
 
#3,619 ·
It's a pretty easy tie - I used:

AHRERX NS110 #2 hook
EP Gamechanger eyes 4.5 mm (but go up one size if you want)
4 - 6 saddle hackles (2 of the 6 are barred, placed last)
3" EP craft fur brush (could sub 3" foxy brush if you like)
1.5" EP minnow head brush

optional: one or two turns of 1.5" foxy brush between the 3" brush and the minnow head brush
 

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#3,620 ·
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Prior to fly fishing I loved and still throw a lot of gold spinnerbaits in the spartina. This is my first summer with more time spent fly fishing. I couldn’t help but to tie a few I can fish the edges of grass and oyster bars. The top is articulating and no weight for throwing right at the edges at a mid tide and the spinner (is it a fly?) is for a fat tide but not where it floods. Top one is really cool after a quick strip, it kinda fluffs is the only expression I can think of. Really good action. I got the idea from the drunk and disorderly bass fly.
 

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#3,622 ·
Here's a pretty good small bug that we use for reds, snook, and baby tarpon in the backcountry when we can see there's lot of small bait up along mangrove shorelines... I call it the Gold Bug and usually do them up on a Mustad 34007 #4 hook...

the wire weedguard is formed out of #3 trolling wire (Malin's hard wire...).

Be a hero... take a kid fishing...
 
#3,626 ·
Steve, that's a great pattern and will work almost anywhere. I can remember when Scott Hamilton first came up with it years and years ago - but his never had those great eyes... The original pattern was called an Eat Me if I remember correctly and Scot hammered fish on the reef and out in blue waters with it for years (and may still be fishing them for all I know...).
 
#3,627 ·
Hey fellas! I am gonna be raising some meat chickens very soon. It will be Sept. before they are ready for the freezer. If any of ya’ll would like some saddles and capes let me know. I will preserve the capes and saddles with borax. Here is what I ask in return... Cover shipping and tie me a half dozen trout, snook, redfish, panfish, bass flys and send them back to me. The feathers will be from my yard flock birds and have some cool natural colors and barring. I will raising between 10 & 20 birds. Just pm me and let me know if you are interested. Thanks, James
 
#3,632 ·
Wanted to clarify after reading, half dozen flys total is what I’m asking not a half dozen of each. Just want to cover cost really. Sorry if there was confusion. And I’m not picky, tie what you know! Maybe add a note telling me what it is and what it’s target species is since I’m still pretty much a newb with flies!
 
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Hey fellas, looks like I might have some hackles and saddles sooner than later. Just had some biddies hatch from broody hens. As far as I can tell, these are gonna be mostly black. They may have some red and or buff coloring mixed in. And the black usually has some iridescent green to it. Some are spoken for already but my offer stands to ya’ll!
 
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This pic of this fly was one that had already been hit (hit and landed) by about 1/2 dozen snook, rinsed real good, allowed to dry out, 1 eye glued back on and fly brushed back out. Hook point touched back up and she's ready for action again.

Funny how I normally use arctic fox for the belly, but my brother's wife recently got a white Maltese dog and I couldn't take my eyes off the dog's hair and my brother noticed when I pet the dog, I was sizing up the hair to see what a fly would look like tied from that hair. So he saved some clippings from it's last haircut. The snook loved it! :D
 
#3,644 ·
Finally tried my hand at big flatwings. This one is tied on a 3/0 Tiemco 600sp. Only issue I have is that the local fly shops are out of good barred hackle that is long enough to fit this fly. Should be a good one offshore for cobia and snapper. Hopefully I can entice a few poons and big snook when I get back to Florida in August.
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#3,648 ·
Thanks Capt. I copied this from a flatwing I got from Brita Fordice a few months ago at a fly fishing show. She ties them big for Puget Sound fish. It was easier to tie than I thought but does require a fair bit of material and careful stacking to keep the profile tall and skinny without a significant amount of trimming.
 
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