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These two flies are from Tie2 fish I only make the pictures and put these to the forum:

A Tups and an Enhanced Orange Fishhawk






I usually fish my wet flies in a cast of two, and use a tippet ring to attach the dropper fly 14-16" above the point fly. I use a WF floating fly line and a 9 foot leader tapered to 5X. In the clear water of my home stream, I add two or three feet more of 5X tippet down to the dropper, and from there to the point it's usually 6X tippet. My rod of choice is a 9 foot 5 wt graphite. This is probably more stiff than most folks like for wet flies, but it works well for me.
Due to the varied structure of my home stream, I vary my casting tactics quite often. Sometimes it's across and down, sometimes it's directly upstream on a short line, and sometimes it's just whatever it takes to get the flies in front of a feeding fish at that moment.

Enhanced Orange Fishhawk
Hook: Daiichi 1550, #12-16
Working thread: Benecchi white
Hackle: Greenwell hen
Tag: Gold mylar tinsel, #14
Rib: Gold mylar tinel, #16
Body: Alec Jackson Premium silk floss, orange
Underbody: Gold mylar tinsel, #14
Head: Black thread

Tups Spider Variation #2
Hook: Daiichi 1640, #12-14
Working thread: Sheer 14/0, pale yellow
Hackle: Honey dun hen
Abdomen: Gudebrod "D" (yellow) rod winding thread; tied in at thorax and
unwound to flat, touching turns back to barb, rewound to tight, touching
turns back to thorax; tie off and trim excess
Thorax: Tups blend #2 (see below) loosely twist-dubbed to waxed thread

My Tups blend #2: 50% Scintilla #06 pale creamy shrimp dubbing
40% mixed red fox fur
7% seal dyed cinnamon
3% seal dyed scarlet

Fantastic! .....Ruard, go here, ( http://www.pureartflytying.ning/profile/misako ), and then scroll down quickly to see a slide show of my wife's artwork and our tyin' room such as it was a year and half ago.....it's evolved a LOT since those pics were taken.....but you'll get the idea.

Handsome flies Ruard. I am especially draw to the fish hawk pattern.

Ruard,tie2,
Both flies are super. The Orange Fish Hawk came to me via Bergman's book Trout. It has been, along with the Tup's a very productive fly. Like the Tup's it is also tied dry, and according to Ray Bergman, one of the few flies he used that would catch any species of trout.

Mark

Thank you, Ruard, for being good enough to photograph and post these for me.

Dearest Bill and a special thanks to Ruard,
These Patterns are fantastic! My favorite of the two? The Enhanced Orange Fishhawk. You know that I have always been a great Tups fan and yours is beautiful. Dang it Bill....why do we have to make these tough decisions? I guess the only solution is to have you post more of your patterns! What do you say?
Nice work gentlemen! Ruard, great photographic work!
Dougsden