[Mike Barrio]

Hi folks
 
Please post your March SBS entries in this thread ....................

This will be the last month for entries this year, so If you would like the chance to win a prize ........ enter now!

Best wishes
Mike

[Sandy Nelson]

A bit of fun for the last one

heres a Gurgler style frog pattern i've been playing with out here, for Bass, in places like this.



Hook: Size 4 Varivas 2610
Thread: white, strong
Back: two sheets of foam glued together.
Front Legs: striped rainy's chartreuse centipede legs
Back Legs: Barred Zonker strips in Chartreuse
Body: white micro fritz
Marker: olive Pantone.

Step 1: Place hook in vice.



Step 2: Start thread and make sure it binds down nice and tight.



Step 3: Select a piece of Zonker strip



Step 4: Cut a small piece from the end with the curl



Step 5: Cut piece in half.



Step 6: You should now have two legs.



Step 7: Tie one leg along the side of the hook and bind down tight.



Step 8: Tie in the other leg on the opposite side.



Step 9: Take the pre-made glued sheets of foam.



Step 10: Cut off a strip about 10mm wide.



Step 11: Cut a V shape into the end as shown.



Step 12: Tie in with the V shape over the top of the back legs.



Step 13: Tie in a length of micro fritz.



Step 14: Wind forward, leaving a gap at the eye and tie down, trim off.



Step 15: Take 3 lengths of the rubber legs and tie in with figure of eight turns.



Step 16: bring foam back forward and tie down at end of fritz.



Step 17: Invert fly and finish with whip finish at eye , just ahead of the tie down.



Step 18: trim foam as shown and apply head cement to the forward whip and tie down areas.



Step 19: Apply some more head cement to the rear tie down.



Step 20: Finally as an embellishment i like to add a few spots to the back, and trim legs to a nice length.



Step 21: A frogs chorus, ready to go serenade some Bass.



I'm sure it might just work on some species back home too.

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy ...... all your SBS have been so far removed from the Sandy I know, no wee spiders and dries in Brunei!

Thanks for posting!

Cheers
Mike

[Mike Livingstone]

Sandy,

I am going to have to tie some of these up for this summer chasing bass stateside!

[Rob Brownfield]

Sandy,
I tie something similer for Pike but rather than snip of the zonker to form the legs/feet short like yours, I take a 3-4 inch strip and "shave" them, leaving about 3/4 of an inch of fur at the bottom end, colour them green with a pen, then tie them in back to back to form legs that "kick" when stripped and splay open when at rest, just like a frog.

I also build an underbody of zonker, just like a bunny bug, and then put the foam over the top. Again this gives a "bulky" body at rest to give a better frog outline from below. I have tried creating a foam "core" using a thin stripo of foam and winding on like lead wire, and then winding the zonker over the top as this makes the foam Pike teeth resistent.

Front "feet" are a bunch of rubber "legs" from Orvis, although I often dont bother with these.

I bet your ones cast a lot easier than mine, but I like the heavy splash mine make on landing as I think thats an important "puller" for Pike and Perch.

I will give yours a bash as I think they would be great for big Perch...thank you!

Have to say the photo of the sungi brings memories flooding back!!! I did not fly fish these but used various yankie Bass lures, normally Zara Spooks or Rebel Poppers.

[Rob Brownfield]

Oh, and will you PLEASE tie up a Mudskipper version too!...

[Barry Robertson]

Nice fly yet again Sandy, very creative 

[jpm75]

I know Im a bit early for this fly but here it goes

French Partridge Mayfly.

Materials.
Hook:             Kamasan B830 size 10 classic long shank or similar
Tail:                4-5 Pheasant tail fibres
Body:             2mm strip of natural raffia ( moistened )
Rib:                Small oval gold tinsel
Body hackle:  Short fibred medium olive cock
Shoulder
Hackle:           Long fibred medium olive cock
Head Hackle:  Natural French Partridge
Thread:          Brown



Step 1:   Fix hook in the vice and wind on 5-6 turns of thread


Step 2:  Attach oval gold tinsel and wind thread until level with the barb


Step 3:  Tie in 4-5 pheasant tail fibres and bring your thread back to the eye catching down but ends on the way


Step 4:  Catch in a 2 mm strip of natural raffia (moistened) and tie down to the bend, bring your thread back stopping 3-4 mm from the eye


Step 5:  Wind the moistened raffia in touching turns back up to your thread and secure, trim waste and tidy up


Step 6:  Catch in the short fibred hackle by the stem and wind 1 turn at the front and palmer the body, bring your rib up through the hackle and secure, trim and tidy up


Step 7:  Catch in the larger fibred hackle by the tip, trim the waste, wind on 3-4 turns stroking the fibres back on each turn, secure, trim and tidy up


Step 8:  Tie in the French partridge by the tip and remove the waste piece, wind on 3-4 turns stroking back the fibres on each turn, secure the hackle, trim and tidy up


Step 9:  Build a neat head, whip finish and add a couple of coats of varnish,  Done.

[Sandy Nelson]

Oh, and will you PLEASE tie up a Mudskipper version too!...

Very good but the locals seem to use Frogs as bait
Have found a good spot to try the Gurglers out, been down a couple of times talking to the locals and Snakehead are the quarry Nice Sharp teeth and will take a surface lure with Gusto.



So watch this space

Sandy

[Allan Liddle]

Two crackers to follow.  Promised an entry last month so will have to make up for it this time.

Allan

[Peter McCallum]

I know Im a bit early for this fly but here it goes

French Partridge Mayfly.

Materials.
Hook:             Kamasan B830 size 10 classic long shank or similar
Tail:                4-5 Pheasant tail fibres
Body:             2mm strip of natural raffia ( moistened )
Rib:                Small oval gold tinsel
Body hackle:  Short fibred medium olive cock
Shoulder
Hackle:           Long fibred medium olive cock
Head Hackle:  Natural French Partridge
Thread:          Brown



Step 1:   Fix hook in the vice and wind on 5-6 turns of thread


Step 2:  Attach oval gold tinsel and wind thread until level with the barb


Step 3:  Tie in 4-5 pheasant tail fibres and bring your thread back to the eye catching down but ends on the way


Step 4:  Catch in a 2 mm strip of natural raffia (moistened) and tie down to the bend, bring your thread back stopping 3-4 mm from the eye


Step 5:  Wind the moistened raffia in touching turns back up to your thread and secure, trim waste and tidy up


Step 6:  Catch in the short fibred hackle by the stem and wind 1 turn at the front and palmer the body, bring your rib up through the hackle and secure, trim and tidy up


Step 7:  Catch in the larger fibred hackle by the tip, trim the waste, wind on 3-4 turns stroking the fibres back on each turn, secure, trim and tidy up


Step 8:  Tie in the French partridge by the tip and remove the waste piece, wind on 3-4 turns stroking back the fibres on each turn, secure the hackle, trim and tidy up


Step 9:  Build a neat head, whip finish and add a couple of coats of varnish,  Done.

Now thats a bonnie flee

[jpm75]

How come my fly is in it twice?

[John Reid]

Lovely flies so far guys.  Not be long till lighter nights and wandering along the river!

[Irvine Ross]

All the entries so far this month are a hard act to follow but here goes.

A wee summer salmon fly that has worked for me. It’s yet another variation on a Stoat’s Tail so I call it “Sort of a Stoat”. Does the UV dubbing make any difference? I don’t know.



Materials

Hook : Partridge Salar, or any other low water single, Sizes 8 - 14
Thread : black 8/0
Tail : yellow Krystal Flash
Tag and rib : Oval silver tinsel, narrow
Rear body : mylar  black holographic flat tinsel
Front body : UV black dubbing
Hackle : 3 turns grizzle over 3 turns black, Chinese cock hackle
Wing : Black Arctic fox.

Catch on the thread and run down to the start of the body


Catch in the silver tinsel on the underside of the hook


Run the thread and tinsel down to the point of the hook


Run the thread back up a little and then wind the tag and catch off on the underside of the hook


Catch in 4 strands of the Krystal Flash


Run the thread  up to the top of the body binding down the tail


Trim off the loose ends and trim the tail to level with the bend of the hook


Run the thread down to half way down the body and catch in the holographic black tinsel.


Wind the tinsel down to the tag and back up to the tying in point


Run a thin spindle of the black dubbing onto the thread


Wind on the dubbed thread to the top of the body


Counter wind the rib and catch off



Select a black cock hackle feather with barbs long enough to reach past the point of the hook. Trim off the barbs at the front so the stem is less bulky when you tie in


Catch  in by the point


Wind on 3 turns of hackle smoothing the barbs back as you wind. Catch off and trim waste


Catch in a grizzle hackle in the same way


Wind on another 3 turns, catch off and trim waste


Cut of a small tuft of Arctic fox hair and tease out the short hairs at the base. Check for length. The wing should be slightly longer than the tip of the tail


Pinch and loop the wing into place and make 3 or 4 turns of thread


Twist the waste ends together and trim off.


Put a drop of head cement on the butt ends of the wing and then form a neat head and whip finish.


Two coats of varnish and - job done.

[John Reid]

Very nice Irvine.  I will tie myself some of them up.