What Are You Tying Today? 2026

[JimNovo]

@lars
Gotta thank you for this method to make eyes. Couldn't reply to the 2025 thread. Brilliant!!

 

[lars]

@lars
Gotta thank you for this method to make eyes. Couldn't reply to the 2025 thread. Brilliant!!

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no problem, i struggled with burning mono with not as nice results and just kinda had a flash one day. i'll throw out a caveat that i can't speak for durability, especially for bottom bouncing flies. so a topcoat might be appropriate and i've started squishing the tip of the mono flat in knurled pliers to give the resin a little more purchase. i was using 10lb brown maxima for my last crayfish ties.

 

[bdhoover77]

“Wood duck” minnow streamer tied with dyed mallard flank and an olive CDL hen saddle feather.

 

[SlingingWets]

Size 16 BWO Last Chance Cripple

 

[Mwo10mwo]

I was given the new Pheasant Tail book for Christmas and tied the Flymph. Not sure if the hackle I am using is partridge, but it is close enough (I hope)!

 

[lars]

Gunnar Brammer's mini-feather craw. entire fly is pheasant. he ties them on a jig hook with a tungsten bead.

 

[salmo]

March Brown - #10 Sprite light wire DF hook. I’ve noticed that the MBs on the Beaverkill & EBranch seem to have a yellowish hue, while the MBs on Penns seem somewhat darker


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Could pass for a sulfur too.

 

[lars]

giving the traveling station some love... #12 AuSable Wulff's

 

[salmo]

Why the blue screen?

 

[lars]

good background for tying.

 

[salmo]

Better than white?

 

[lars]

i like it. i have an asst of colors, funny i don't have any white. maybe i should.

 

[JG63]

Looking to spin up a few more “old school” bugs here in 2026. Here is the first one of the year - The Hornberg tied on a size 10 3XL hook.

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A New England staple! Nicely done 😎👍🏼

 

[lars]

Better than white?

which looks better to you?

 

[JG63]

R/O Trinity

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Tail - Red duck or goose quill segments or red hackle fibers
Body - Three balls of fluorescent red chenille, separated by wraps of gold tinsel
Hackle - Fluorescent red
Wings - White calf tail or polar bear

W/O Trinity

Hook - Single salmon
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Tail - Orange duck or goose quill segments or red hackle fibers
Body - Three balls of fluorescent orange chenille, separated by wraps of gold tinsel
Hackle - Fluorescent orange
Wings - White calf tail or polar bear

Author's Note

The pattern for this fly, came from the fine book by Bruce Ferguson, Les Johnson, and Pat Trotter, Fly Fishing For Pacific Salmon. They write that this fly was originated by James Garrett of Sequim, Washington. It is good for

Trinity is still my name …

 

[JimNovo]

which looks better to you?

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Blue!!!

 

[Skook]

If you scroll back a page or two, you can see that I use a light blue paper-covered foam poster board from a local craft store as my background. It seems to just about split the difference between the medium blue and white backgrounds shown in the pic above. I think a bit of color helps to soften things and to reduce any glare coming off a pure white background.

The foam poster board is rigid so it can be stood up or leaned against something and stays in place.

 

[lars]

there's a wulff pack starting to gather on my desk .
#12 mustad 94840's and #14 mustad 9671's
i'm expecting more to show up.

 

[salmo]

which looks better to you?

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The blue. Thanks

 

[lars]

sure, i actually have orange, green, lt blue and yellow backgrounds too. i mostly use the blue tho.