Fishing The Fly Scotland
Index => Fly Tying => Topic started by: Barry Robertson on 29/12/2008 at 22:09
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Just thought it would be intrestings if people posted pictures or discriptions of flies they were busy tying up to give us people with limited thoughts some good ideas!
I will post some pics shortly :z4
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HI Baz
Just finished tying my MPH flies, a Size 12 Pheasant tail Baetis nymph, as effective as the Oliver Edwards one IMHO, but simpler to tie. Good for all Olive nymphs
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/PTbeatis.jpg)
I'm also tying some classic Don style dries known as the Badger and Yellow for another swap
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/badgerandyellow.jpg)
Sandy
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HI Baz
Just finished tying my MPH flies, a Size 12 Pheasant tail Baetis nymph, as effective as the Oliver Edwards one IMHO, but simpler to tie. Good for all Olive nymphs
Sandy
Sandy
Would be grateful for the description of your dressing for that nymph. It looks very good to me. :z16
Cheers
Irvine
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Some nice looking flies there Sandy!
Wish my camera took photos like that :shock
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I could try a step by step if you like :z16
give me this evening, i'll give it a go, probably easier than trying to describe it.
Hook: B175
Thread : tobacco bennechi 12/0
Rib: Copper wire
Tail/thorax/back: Pheasant Tail
Abdomen: Pine squirrel fur
Thorax: Fox squirrel (spun)
Sandy
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Sounds like a plan Sandy :z16
This is what i have been up to - and loads of them to :cry!
(http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq20/bigtroot/DSC00128-1.jpg)
These are the main cormorants that i was using last season and they produced alot of fish even if they were being pulled behind a blob! :oops
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Baetis nymph step by step :z16
Much more fun than watching the telly :grin
Starting
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no1.jpg)
Tie in approx 4-5 strand of pheasant tail (work out the length first)
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no2.jpg)
Then tie in a piece of copper wire
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no3.jpg)
Dub some pine squirrel quite thinly
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no4.jpg)
Wind forward to about 3/5ths of the length of the overall fly.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no5.jpg)
Put some fox squirrel onto thread, be careful it falls off pretty easily, you could wax it, but i feel it creates lumps.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/n06.jpg)
Create a loop with the thread and using a dubbing spinner spin the fox squirrel so it becomes spikey but tight on the thread.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no7.jpg)
Wind back from the eye of the hook, brushing the fibres forward as best you can, then tie off at the meeting point with the Pine squirrel
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no8.jpg)
Fold pheasant tail back to form thorax cover and tie in with 2 turns of thread
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no9.jpg)
Take pheasant tail to back of fly and catch in with the copper wire, if you tie the wire in on top then you get almost a full turn under the pheasant tail before it catches, kicking the tail up nicely.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no11.jpg)
Wind 4 turns of wire up to back of thorax and tie in
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no12.jpg)
Finally whip finish , pick out most of the hair from the thorax with a needle so its scruffy and then varnish.
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/no13.jpg)
:z16
I hope you enjoyed that as much as i did, sad bugger that i am :z4
Sandy
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Nice one Sandy :z16
I'd love to see more like this on the forum ..... and then I could perhaps choose some of my favourites to put on the main website :cool:
Cheers
Mike
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Nice and easy to follow step by step and that camera of yours makes you look like a half decent tier! :wink
Very good looking fly and look forward to seing your next step by step!
Maybe a straight forward fly for youreself but i certainly learnt something new there , thanks again :z16
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Nice flies Sandy - & it's great to see a SBS's on a very useful flee.
What type of hook did you use for the Badger & Yellow?
What is your lighting, background 'studio' set up for your SBS's (or even just still macro shots?) I've photographed a few flies in their various states of dress but have held back on the SBS due to the poor outcome of the stills.
My most successfull River Don Nymph has been a slightly weighted traditionally tied PTN so I'm always on the lookout for variants.
Iain
Still haven't a new vise yet - I'm toying with the Renzetti traveller ....eh?....2000?
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Just a quick question sandy , Where did you whip finish? The eye or behind the thorax?
Baz
If you look just behind the Thorax you will see where Sandy Has Whip Finished his Fly,
Neat fly by the way Sandy, loved the step by step.
Alex
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I eventually sussed it out Alex but thanks for pointing it out, what you got in the vice just now anyway?
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If I can stop coughing long enough, :z6 Black Diawl Bachs with Red Holo rib size 14. Been trying for ages to get a photo but I keep coughing & they come out blured. :mad
OK You can have it against a blured wooden door
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3110/3151105893_aa0b45d146.jpg?v=0)
or against a blured Blue wall
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3227/3151106013_b597b39502.jpg?v=0)
Alex
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Iain
heres my "Studio" :z4 :z4 :z4
(http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh7/skuesapprentice/flies/mystudio.jpg)
All the pictures are shot, hand held, on Macro, with soft flash against the tying board. The tying board is left where i have it during tying.
The Camera is a Ricoh R8 compact. Which seems to be very good at the detail stuff. I'm struggling to find as good results at Family type photos with it :z10, but for flies its perfect (it only cost me £125, So chuffed to bits :grin) I imagine once i suss the right settings it'll be just fine, but i seem to take a lot more pictures of flies anyway :z4
Sandy
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Oh Aye
The hook on the badger and yellow is one of the Varivas wave barbless hooks i mentioned previously, size 14 :z16
Sandy
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Thats a very proffesional looking setup Sandy!
Best not put a pic of mine up- i can barely see the desk for all the diff bits of material pebble dashed everywhere :oops
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Thats a very proffesional looking setup Sandy!
Nah! This year i decided to start tying for fun again, so i got the nice new vice :z16 one of the best things i've ever bought , and it encourages you to tie in a more relaxed fashion. Something i was desperatley in need of doing :z6. When Sandra's Dad passed away we inherited the desk, so i stripped it, fixed it and refinished it, then managed to persuade her (somehow :z8) to let me keep it for flytying :grin That took some doing, but she aint getting it back now :z4.
Up until now its always been done on a fold up table in the corner of a room, and had to be tidied away afterwards, nice to have a "Cave" :z4
Sandy
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Sandy
Many thanks for the great step by step sequence. I got a lot more than I expected when I asked for the dressing.
Great photos. I have been playing about with my compact camera and it will not do flash in macro mode. Maybe because the flash gun is at the opposite end of the body to the lens. That's the sort of thing you don't notice when you look at them in the shop unless you are thinking about photographing flies.
Your "cave" must be great. I only have the table in the living room to tie on so everything has to be put away when I'm finished.
Maybe Mike could put some of the SBS photo sequences in the Virtual Flybox?
Cheers :z18
Irvine
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Sandy
Many thanks for the great step by step sequence. I got a lot more than I expected when I asked for the dressing.
Great photos. I have been playing about with my compact camera and it will not do flash in macro mode. Maybe because the flash gun is at the opposite end of the body to the lens. That's the sort of thing you don't notice when you look at them in the shop unless you are thinking about photographing flies.
Your "cave" must be great. I only have the table in the living room to tie on so everything has to be put away when I'm finished.
Maybe Mike could put some of the SBS photo sequences in the Virtual Flybox?
Cheers :z18
Irvine
Just shine a light on it! :z4
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4REVpGtYg9I&NR=1
Anyone tried tying or fishing anything like this, i cant close my mouth i like it that much :grin
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Hi Baz
Nice video, yes I've tied similar flies without the jungle cock in the past and they've proved great fish catchers in most conditions, including on the river :wink
Cheers
Mike
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(http://i429.photobucket.com/albums/qq20/bigtroot/DSC00190.jpg)
I had no jungle cock either so stuck some council tinsel in instead :z16
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Now thats looks the Mutts danglies :z12
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I even used the propper duck fluff , bronze mallard - pricey stuff :shock
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Does anyone tie buzzers with a hackle round the top of the hook like a spider / anyone got any photo's of patterns like this that they would use on stillwaters?
:z18
Baz