What Are You Tying Today?

[ChuckofWagon]

First time tying size 22, blood midge.

That's the easy part......NOW tie 'em on as the water is rushing by your knees!! 🙃

 

[nfrechet]

RP Emerger

Roy Palm

Tail - Partridge
Body - Olive biot
Thorax - Olive dubbing
Hackle- Partridge

https://flyfishingthesierra.com/rp-emerger/

 

[salmo]

First time tying size 22, blood midge.

Great job!!

 

[TerrellBFly]

Spawn Craw - Size 4, with articulated jig shank + glass rattles.

The olive has been doing work on smallies this summer.

 

[hooker-of-men]

This pattern worked. Re-up for my sh!t knot tying.

 

[ehartu]

Deep blue poison tung- sz 16.

 

[nfrechet]

Fletcher

Tip - Silver tinsel
Tail - Scarlet, yellow, and guinea fowl married
Hackle - Grizzly tied palmer *
Body - Black floss
Wing - Light brown mottled turkey

Don Bastion Note

* The hackle recipe in Trout calls for gray but the painting is clearly grizzly.

I really like the Fletcher; it is an unremarkable fly except for the three-part married tail, which makes this pattern extremely attractive and fun to tie.

The Fletcher is a good pattern for tiers in the early stages of learning to tie married tails to practice and work on. My reasoning is that once the tail is done, the rest of the fly is relatively easy.

Trout - Ray Bergman

 

[ehartu]

Some simple crawfish- sz 6

 

[flyguy638]

Final Mouse Rat, now on to something else

 

[Mikey2006]

Some scud/shrimp things (idk what you would call them but I think they look fishy) and some frenchies. Made the tails a little too long on those

 

[flyguy638]

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Some scud/shrimp things (idk what you would call them but I think they look fishy) and some frenchies. Made the tails a little too long on those

Nice flies, I use for Steelhead .

 

[Mikey2006]

Nice flies, I use for Steelhead .

I’ll have to see if they work on the fish in the limestoners. They are size 16 so I’d probably need to tie them smaller for better results

 

[poopdeck]

My new favorite local creek SMB fly

Hook - Mustad C49S curved caddis size 8
.015 lead under wrap
Thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
Tail - Chartreuse mop
Body - Golden olive crystal chenille, medium
Legs - Chartreuse/black med round rubber
Collar - Green organza ribbon

 

[flyguy638]

My new favorite local creek SMB fly

Hook - Mustad C49S curved caddis size 8
.015 lead under wrap
Thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
Tail - Chartreuse mop
Body - Golden olive crystal chenille, medium
Legs - Chartreuse/black med round rubber
Collar - Green organza ribbon

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Good steelhead pattern right there

 

[poopdeck]

Good steelhead pattern right there

Good to know. I hope to find out in the relatively near future.

 

[hooker-of-men]

Continuing with Deceivers for Cape Cod in 2 weeks

I'm sure the stripers that I won't find will be very impressed 😂

 

[Striperbobby]

My new favorite local creek SMB fly

Hook - Mustad C49S curved caddis size 8
.015 lead under wrap
Thread - UTC 70 burnt orange
Tail - Chartreuse mop
Body - Golden olive crystal chenille, medium
Legs - Chartreuse/black med round rubber
Collar - Green organza ribbon

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Smallies love chartreuse! Good looking fly!

 

[Terry Murphy]

Tying some bugs and listening to Molly Hatchet .

 

[poopdeck]

Smallies love chartreuse! Good looking fly!

Thank you. I’ve been on a mop fly tear lately. I can tell you my local SMB preferred the all Chartreuse and green mop flies over yellow ones. I want to experiment with some white and chartreuse.

 

[Striperbobby]

Thank you. I’ve been on a mop fly tear lately. I can tell you my local SMB preferred the all Chartreuse and green mop flies over yellow ones. I want to experiment with some white and chartreuse.

I like using the mop chenille to tie a slightly longer tail than you get from the actual mop material. I have found creek smallies hit chartreuse, pink, and white mop flies well. They also work great tied on a beaded jig hook fished in the current.