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Title: streamer suggestions
Post by: Matt Henderson on 08/11/2009 at 21:53: All,

I fancy using some streamers next season and want to tie them myself. if you were only to have four patterns in your box what would they be?

cheers

Matt
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Ben Dixon on 08/11/2009 at 22:40: Hi Matt,

Is that 4 patterns without variation or is that 4 patterns in different colours and sizes?

Assuming the latter......

Woolly Buggers in black & white, sizes 2 - 10 on 4x longshanks and some 4's & 6's with a bright ornage conehead.
Madonnas in black, brown, & yellow in above sizes
Butt Monkeys in Brown & grey sizes 2 - 8
Zoo Cougars in Yellow, Olive, & black sizes 2 - 8

These are what I will be tying for next year and I will probably add Ollie Edwards Snappy Poodle to the list, not because it is any more effective than anything listed but because I like those Moser Snapheads and the fly looks cool. If I get really bored I will probably tie some more of Ollie's Sculpins but only if I get really bored. They takes AGES to tie an are an imitation of something that does not, to my knowledge exist in the Don.

Cheers

Ben
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 09/11/2009 at 02:07: Quote from: Ben_D on 08/11/2009 at 22:40

Madonnas in black, brown, & yellow in above sizes
Butt Monkeys in Brown & grey sizes 2 - 8
Zoo Cougars in Yellow, Olive, & black sizes 2 - 8

Pictures benjamin please :z16

I really want to see what a butt monkey looks like :shock

Sandy
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 09/11/2009 at 09:08: Bit like this I think ;)

(http://i38.tinypic.com/2wbzvnq.jpg)
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 09/11/2009 at 12:50: Looks like an ape to me :z6

:z4 :z4 :z4
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Bronzebommer on 09/11/2009 at 13:08: Is that you Rob?
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Ben Dixon on 09/11/2009 at 13:10: Think i have posted these before Sandy but here you go

(http://i33.tinypic.com/347gunn.jpg)

(http://i38.tinypic.com/11jt4hu.jpg)

Cheers

Ben
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Noel Kelly on 09/11/2009 at 13:27: I am a big believer in c&r but think I would have to make an exception for any Don fish that took one of those :z4
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 09/11/2009 at 13:44: Quote from: Spiderman on 09/11/2009 at 12:50
Looks like an ape to me :z6

:z4 :z4 :z4

Tut..picky sod! The only monkey I could find had a rather red and raw looking backside and I thought it rather inappropriate..lol.
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 09/11/2009 at 13:45: If you dressed those a bit SMALLER I might use them for Pike ;)
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 10/11/2009 at 00:26: Quote from: Rob on 09/11/2009 at 13:44
Tut..picky sod! The only monkey I could find had a rather red and raw looking backside and I thought it rather inappropriate..lol.

Better watch out the rspca might be reading this :shock

You must have spent TOO MUCH time in the jungle over the years :wink

I havn't managed to catch one yet :roll

Ben.

Now i see the pictures i remember seeing them before :z6 old age is a terrible thing, Thanks though!
What about the other two "madonna" and "zoo cougar" ? have i seen them before as well :oops

Sandy
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Irvine Ross on 10/11/2009 at 08:22: Humph

Butt Monkey???? Looks like a sparkled up matuka muddler to me. :z8

http://www.danica.com/flytier/rwyatt/matuka_muddler.htm

Bah Humbug :z7

Irvine
Title: Re: streamer suggestions
Post by: Iain Goolager on 10/11/2009 at 15:23: What's all this streamer nonsense? :z7

Since there is such an interest in streamers and chucking them, would it be a good topic for the fly tying competition? Just a thought. I don't have any streamer hooks but I can buy and send a couple to anyone that doesn't already have such a thing.

Iain