What Are You Tying Today? 2026

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McBride

Hook - Standard wet fly
Thread - White under body, Black head
Body hackle - Brown
Ribbing - Silver tinsel
Body - Yellow dubbing
Wing - Cinnamon duck or goose wing quill segments

Amateur Tyers Fly Dictionary - J E Willmarth

I know that one as the orange Creamsicle

 

[bdhoover77]

Somehow last night our new puppy managed to get up on my desk and reach a foam ring that held 6-7 streamers I had tied. He completely destroyed them, but somehow also managed to avoid getting one stuck in his mouth or, worse, in his throat. It was a minor miracle we did not spend the night at the animal hospital.

I guess I now need to find a more secure place to store flies and typing materials!

 

[Penns Woods]

Somehow last night our new puppy managed to get up on my desk and reach a foam ring that held 6-7 streamers I had tied. He completely destroyed them, but somehow also managed to avoid getting one stuck in his mouth or, worse, in his throat. It was a minor miracle we did not spend the night at the animal hospital.

I guess I now need to find a more secure place to store flies and typing materials!

I have the same problem. The only thing that seems to work is a door to my tying room that's always closed.

 

[[WR]]

Somehow last night our new puppy managed to get up on my desk and reach a foam ring that held 6-7 streamers I had tied. He completely destroyed them, but somehow also managed to avoid getting one stuck in his mouth or, worse, in his throat. It was a minor miracle we did not spend the night at the animal hospital.

I guess I now need to find a more secure place to store flies and typing materials!

Wow, you're right. That could have been a disaster.
Look around for a baby gate that goes across doorways and stairways. We had to do that to keep our 2 mutts out of a danger zone, and it worked well.

 

[dc410]

Leadwing Coachman Wet Fly, size 12

 

[nd1001]

I've seen this tied as a Hedgehog mutant stonefly out west, but I believe I party with a certain eastern species who will be interested mid-summer. Could also be a good bobber for midges in the more near future 🤷‍♂️ Big ol' #8

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What are the steps to tie this? Looks super clean, I like the style of bullet head on both sides of the hook.

 

[hooker-of-men]

What are the steps to tie this? Looks super clean, I like the style of bullet head on both sides of the hook.

The body is essentially exactly the same as this fly I posted last month:

#12 October Sedgehog
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On that one, you can more easily see it's just a series of flared clumps of hair all the way up the back (which I believe is the defining trait of the h/sedgehog patterns?).

I stopped a bit short on the body for the bigger one to leave extra room behind the eye to tie the hair for the head, which is initially just loosely distributed 360° around the shank like tying a hollow fly.

I like the pattern and plan to keep a few in my box, but it uses a lot of hair - and I am protective of my good hair pieces, so that irks me 😂

 

[nd1001]

The body is essentially exactly the same as this fly I posted last month:



On that one, you can more easily see it's just a series of flared clumps of hair all the way up the back (which I believe is the defining trait of the h/sedgehog patterns?).

I stopped a bit short on the body for the bigger one to leave extra room behind the eye to tie the hair for the head, which is initially just loosely distributed 360° around the shank like tying a hollow fly.

I like the pattern and plan to keep a few in my box, but it uses a lot of hair - and I am protective of my good hair pieces, so that irks me 😂

Ahh, I get it. Thanks for the explanation, I’ll have to tie some up!

 

[laurelhighlander]

First fly size 4 & 6 hook, 2nd fly size 6 and a shank, other two are size 10 front and back. The articulated size 10s are currently my favorite way to trout fish. ive never done well with bigger streamers and trout.