What Have You Been Tying Today?

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

Cheers Mike.

Tied up something a little different yesterday, took a couple of goes to get a half decent profile. Something to experiment with over the winter.

[Jim Eddie]

Nice fly for Pike 

[Kevin McPherson]

Wee session on the vice some Waterhen Bloa  ,

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one Kevin, looking good 

[Kevin McPherson]

Some Nymphs to fill up the box , what  I do need is a better camera 🤔

[Lucian Vasies]

Good morning guys,
Hi guys, these days I've been obsessed with Danica flies—I've tied around 100 flies in the last days:)  I've been experimenting with different variations, but the two below are the ones I've been tying for a long time. On the emerger, I replaced the Kapok dubbing with body yarn.





Cheers and happy tying
Lucian

[Mike Barrio]

G'morning Lucian, those look great 

Cheers
Mike

[John Wastle]

A couple for the Clyde.

[Mike Barrio]

Little & large - nice one John 

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

Some cracking flies getting tied.

Here's a wee wet fly I tied up today

[Kevin McPherson]

Looks great 👍

[Kevin McPherson]

Wee Spider point fly with small subdued bead behind hackle , found it helps to just lift the hackle and stop it collapsing along the body 🎣🎣 Not sure what too consider it imitating but seams to do the trick.

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one Kevin, that looks fishy 

I've got some Flymphs that are similar, not caught anything on them, but probably not fished them enough to be fair.

[Kevin McPherson]

Saw this on YouTube so thought I'd give it a try , only first attempt  so needs a bit of practice , I went and cut the feelers a bit short as they say measure twice cut once 😂 salmon flies aren't my forte but putting some together for the new season 🎣🎣

[Lucian Vasies]

A friend of mine asked me to tie a few highly visible emergers, so here's what I've been working on for him over the past few days.

[Mike Barrio]

Nice work Lucian, they look very fishy 

[John Wastle]

Gravel Bed (Samdfly)

Not sure of the distribution but it can appear in large numbers on border rivers. It looks like a small crane fly and tends to collapse spent in the surface film.



Hook, #14
Body, dark hare
Wing, brown polyproylene yarn
Hackle, wild mallard cdc and brown partridge, long and straggly

The hackle is tied in a loop, cdc spider style. As mentioned on the other thread, stacking rather than folding the feathers is much easier.

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one John, I can just imagine that sitting in the surface film 

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

Those Hi-Vis emergers look lovely.

As does the Sandfly, brilliant buggy effect. Looks like a pattern that could cover several bases.

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

An Invicta variant I tied up today, using a Flex-Floss body:

[Mike Barrio]

That's a cracker Robert, I've always had a soft spot for the Invicta ( and the Silver Invicta of course ) 

Cheers
Mike

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

Cheers Mike, A Pearly invicta is also a great variation to have.

Having a play with some new UV Resin today:

[Robert MacDonald-Lewis]

Experimenting with UV resin and tying something a little different today:

[Lucian Vasies]

Hi guys,
Here is light olive universal swimming nymph (light weighted) for those who  love to fish with classic dry fly rods and not dedicated nymphing rods.



cheers,
Lucian

[Mike Barrio]

Nice work Robert and Lucian, great looking flies