The Artistic flies of Mark Romero

[willowhead]

hopefully sometime next month.....at the soonest......ah.....i mean, the latest...... sure as hell won't be anytime this month............way to busy right now..............
William, if you see this.....i'm workin' on a fly for you right now..........bout half way finished............

[willowhead]

William, your fly is finished.........
Hook: Gaelic Supreme Harrison Bartleet 6/0
Thready: Danville Primrose 6/0
Tag: Red Holographic Tinsel
Tail: Hot Pink Rhea fibers
Butt: Montana Fly Salmon colored Salmon dubbing
Body: a series of three Red and clear glass beads with the above dubbing seperating all three
Wing: Angle Hair Red & Black Flash over Red Bucktail
Collar: three dyed Red Guinea feather
Head: dyed Fandango Pink
Eye: dyed Fandango Pink fly line backing

undoubtedly you will not get this fly in your mail box until sometime in April.....hopefully..... .....leaves you a little something to look forward to.....

[William Anderson]

Wow, I can't wait to see it. Thank you very much. I didn't see that coming. That's awesome.

w

[willowhead]

[hankaye]

Dub-Ya, Howdy;


Be careful,........ he'll try to turn you to the darkside ........................

hank

[willowhead]

Just used 8 JC nails on the fly i just finished.............two in the tail, two drooping in front, and four in the wing. Maybe some day i'll be able to post a pic............if i deleted this entire thread..........and started it all over again with all new pics.....i'd still have all kinds of flies around here not pic posted. Damn this fly is cool..... .....i guess i'll get a pic of it up on my site eventually.....try to remember to let you know then. How do i dream up this bleep?????
DON'T answer that.................never mind, hank won't be able to help hisself..............

[hankaye]

w'head, Howdy;

you're right ...................tryed, ............................. gave it all I had .......................can't ...................help ........ myself.

Could it have been something like "Jim" from "Taxi", poor fella took 1 hit off a left-handed cigarette (Mary juanna), in college
an hasn't been the same since ................... or perhaps something along the lines of a certian mushroom.................
As another member is fond of sayin, not necessarily in that order........................

hank

[willowhead]

Could be any of that................and a whole hell of a lot more..............in a VERY wide variety of flavors and colors.......but, what it really comes down to..............is simply being born that way. That, and a whole lotta "Tramatic Experiences"............ .............

Tomorrow we set up for Sowbug.............YES! YES!! YES!!! YES!!!! YES!!!!!

btw.....just finished yet another Artistic..... this one's basically blue, red, & purple.....got Eurasian Jay for the tail.....dyed BEP in front, Red bucktail and two different synthetics in the wing and a wild blue bead, with Peacock dubbing for the front part of the body and quadrupled dark blue Montana fly midge thread for a rib, a purple Rhea feather tip throat, a blue ostrich herl butt, and the head and eye are both purple and red.....

[willowhead]

Just whipped out another one...........on a Partridge CS6JP 5/0...........blue braid tag.....painted blue JC nails tail........two different Kreinik braids of different diameters (thin, dark purple & pink, two thirds/than thick, light lavender & pink, one third), for the body, with sections of Barred Wooduck straped in on both sides beginning right after the tail all the way up to where i did a double collar with two more Barred Woddy feathers. So what i got was a massive, goin' 7K directions Barred Woddy conglomeration of fibers from the ass to the eye............sucker is cool lookin'. And of all things, (for me ), a black head........... WWWOOOWWWWWWW! BIG Fun.....and it only took little over an hour. Sucker just OOOZZZEEESSS Spey.
i am SOO ready for show time.....

[willowhead]

My vise is ON FIRE! Just finished another one........... actually it's still gonna need at least one more coat on the head.....but the tyin's done.........and Ray, i used one of the wing sets you sent.....the Pintail Cheek feathers.......... Thankx again man......it was a challange.....they do not set easy.....but i got 'em up there nice. The fly is on an antique Mustad 3899 5/0.....
Perfect size for those feathers you sent Ray.
Tag: some gorgeous antique oval Gold tinsel from the Yellow Breeches Fly Shop, that has sorta Bronzed or Coppered itself over the years
Tail: a mix of Woody flank feather barbs and CDL cock hackle fibers w/ a JC Nail on each side
Butt: sort of a Dark Amber or Cinnamon Brown colored Ostrich herl.....
Body: some kinna Greenish/Gold sparkle dubbing.....way picked out.....
Rib: Kreinik med. diameter Light Copper tinsel
Wing: Pintail cheek feathers.....
Throat: the tips of two Barred Woody feathers
Collar: two barred Woody feathers wraped one at a time, with the tips folded under, and one unknown feather in front of that. The head is stripe painted Dark Brown, and the eye is fly line backing painted Pumpkin Orange.....


YEA!!!!! it's "After Midnight"................."we gonna let it ALL hang out".................