What Are You Tying Today? 2026

[hooker-of-men]

#12 Shushan Postmaster-ish. Tying the pattern incorrectly short, small, and sparse for what I assume will be my last landlock attempts later in the week (if the fish are still moving).

 

[hooker-of-men]

More reclaimed hooks turned into Holy Grails

 

[nfrechet]

Josephine

Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - Black
Tip - Gold tinsel
Body - Peasock herl
Hackle - Brown
Wing - Scarlet duck or goose quill segments

Favorite Flies and Their Histories - Mary Orvis Marbury

Forgotten Flies - Schmookler and Sils

 

[poopdeck]

Variation on Galloup’s Silk Kitty. Hoping it will work well for smallmouth. I have a problem in that I love tying streamers but I don’t fish them all that well/often - I have to work on that.

If I ever went to the Slide inn Fly shop I would have my wife and daughters stay in the car.

I also tie a lot of streamers that don’t often get fished by me. I always end up fishing the same easy to tie brown zonker streamer with rubber legs. Sometimes a white one.

 

[laurelhighlander]

Been popping some lake-run landlocks:

#6 Black Bugger. No weight and super slim - very different than my trout buggers.



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I love flies with sparse materials but especially deer hair. Such a clean looking fly

 

[nfrechet]

Yellow Miller

Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - White under floss body, Black head
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss or wool
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Yellow duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

 

[Mwo10mwo]

Some calf tail crazy Charlie’s. Planning to have a full box by the time a trip comes around!

 

[Penns Woods]

Yellow Miller

Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - White under floss body, Black head
Ribbing - Gold tinsel
Body - Yellow floss or wool
Hackle - Yellow
Wing - Yellow duck or goose quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

Very nice tie. This is very similar to another fly the Yellow Sally. It's one of my favorite brook trout flies that I use on the AuSable in New York.