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- Thu May 04, 2023 6:44 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Sparkle Nymph
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17963
Re: Sparkle Nymph
Love this one
- Tue May 02, 2023 4:28 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Biot Soft Hackles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4835
Re: Biot Soft Hackles
With biots, peacock herl, ostrich...anything like that I put a drop of gel super glue over my thread base and wrap it trough the glue. Builds a stronger fly plus if you fumble and drop it, it won't come unwound on you
- Tue May 02, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Biot Soft Hackles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4835
Re: Biot Soft Hackles
Those. Are. In. Credible.
So buggy but so simple, the colors work together for an overall tone that's also very buggy...these are just stellar.
So buggy but so simple, the colors work together for an overall tone that's also very buggy...these are just stellar.
- Mon May 01, 2023 6:42 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Tri-color Rusty
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4791
Re: Tri-color Rusty
Damn it man! Any time I feel like I'm a good fly tyer I just look at Carl's work and remember how mediocre I am.
- Mon May 01, 2023 6:36 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Rusty Too Flymph
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3804
Re: Rusty Too Flymph
That's buggy
- Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:13 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Nymphs
- Topic: Frenchy Time
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12042
Re: Frenchy Time
DUBBN those frenchies are BANGERS! I'm not a euro guy and typically tie nymphs with a little more "soul" but I LOVE the frenchie. I tie a variant that's for isonychia and it's phesant I've dyed over black (actually a charcoal gray) with a black rib and a collar made from a claret/olive spe...
- Tue Apr 04, 2023 6:45 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Orange partridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3714
Re: Orange partridge
Ray the silk came from a French costume designer. Apparently she comes from a long line of dress makers and her great grandmother left her a building full of vintage silks, tinsel, and some weird hybrids that are silk threads with wire twisted in as one of the strands. The threads and flosses are IN...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:06 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Orange partridge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3714
Orange partridge
Just a simple orange partridge I tried to make a little interesting with some 200 year old French silk.
Hook- mustad 3366 (my favorite spider hook) size 12
Abdomen- vintage orange silk thread ribbed with vintage orange silk floss
Hackle- brown partridge
Hook- mustad 3366 (my favorite spider hook) size 12
Abdomen- vintage orange silk thread ribbed with vintage orange silk floss
Hackle- brown partridge
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Imitation Wood Duck (dyed mallard)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3784
Re: Imitation Wood Duck (dyed mallard)
For 2 whole days after waterfowl season last year I sorted mallard, woodie, teal, pigtail, and gadwall flank. Ended up with an entire shoebox full of fluff off the bottom of the feathers if that tells you how much sorting I did
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:59 am
- Forum: Fly Dressings - Wingless Wets
- Topic: Partridge & Orange
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3544
Re: Partridge & Orange
Oh these stupid hooks sent me down a rabbit hole of collecting weird hooks. The kink barb hooks I have are mustads tho. Whoever got my Christmas package got abig kink streamer hook