What flies have you tied today? Post pics here.

coolwings

I've been busy filling up missing spaces. Here's some of them:


Amber Sedge pupa


Damselfly Nymph


Pheasant Tail Nymph


Mayfly Nymph


Green Longhorns

Midnight Blue Leech


Gammarus Pulex Shrimp


Asellus Aquaticus louse


California leech


Minkie Roach


Caddis Larva Cased

Norm

ironbluedun

nice work. i would have the ascellus a bit broader myself though

pullandbang

I haven't photographed any I've tied except this one. It was for a photography assignment here on Boards.
I probably left the book in the background too much out of focus, but it's Peter O'Reilly's book, "Flies of Ireland".

fontanalis

A bit off topic, look for Davie McPhails page on youtube, some great flytying instructions on it.

SeaFields

Great idea coolwings.

I'll try to add to it myself in next week or so. Hopefully this thread stays active.

Its gives me an excuse to break out the fly tying kit.

Doc Farrell

this is a sticky in the making, coolwings a rather impressive post, you old professional hobbyist you!

pullandbang

Found another one I had photographed. I think this was a repair job.

Rycn

coolwings wrote: »

I've been busy filling up missing spaces. Here's some of them:


Amber Sedge pupa


Damselfly Nymph


Pheasant Tail Nymph


Mayfly Nymph


Green Longhorns

Midnight Blue Leech


Gammarus Pulex Shrimp


Asellus Aquaticus louse


California leech


Minkie Roach


Caddis Larva Cased

Norm

Would be easier to see the detail on a white background, nice flies though.

coolwings

Rycn wrote: »

Would be easier to see the detail on a white background, nice flies though.

Yes !!! I'm going to re-take those with a neutral background and a macro setting soon as I can. It's a learning process!

I'll try to tie a few more and add them at the same time.

ironbluedun

Doc Farrell wrote: »

this is a sticky in the making, coolwings a rather impressive post, you old professional hobbyist you!

Yes good idea alright - i must stick up a few myself.

Octopus

Good idea.

For any of you who haven't seen this uk site they have some excellent step by step tying guides. Good site all round too.
http://www.flyforums.co.uk/fly-tying-step-step/
There's a sticky with an a-z of the flies covered. Excellent for anyone looking to learn or improve.

J. Ramone

Very nice patterns & dressings there. I'm too disorganised to have tied anything yet for the coming season. My best creations are usually last minute affairs. Here are a few survivors from last year;


Connemara Black, Fiery Brown (Mayo grilse love this one), arctic fox winged sea trout flies (experiment that worked)
Kill Devil Spiders, Black Pennell, Claret & Jay
Freshwater shrimp shellback, Bibio, Sooty Olive
Endrick Spider, Hare's Ear Nymph, March Browns
Peacock & Claret

coolwings

Very nice. There's something very interesting in peering into someone else's flybox!
I could fish all year just with those spiders, shrimp and HE nymph or yours in different sizes.

J. Ramone

You can tell a lot about a fisherman by examining his flybox alright Coolwings, you can almost tell where he or she has travelled. I like the Endrick Spider from the lakeshore early in the season BTW. It has a nice bit of weight to skip just above the stones.

ironbluedun

J. Ramone wrote: »

Very nice patterns & dressings there. I'm too disorganised to have tied anything yet for the coming season. My best creations are usually last minute affairs. Here are a few survivors from last year;


Connemara Black, Fiery Brown (Mayo grilse love this one), arctic fox winged sea trout flies (experiment that worked)
Kill Devil Spiders, Black Pennell, Claret & Jay
Freshwater shrimp shellback, Bibio, Sooty Olive
Endrick Spider, Hare's Ear Nymph, March Browns
Peacock & Claret

am i mistaken or does your bibio not have any hot orange or red in it?

J. Ramone

ironbluedun wrote: »

am i mistaken or does your bibio not have any hot orange or red in it?

Has red seal fur, light isn't great in the pic

ironbluedun

the arctic fox wing is a good idea. any luck with it for brown trout?

J. Ramone

ironbluedun wrote: »

the arctic fox wing is a good idea. any luck with it for brown trout?

I had one or two nice brownies on them it but didn't try them too much so too early to say if it's a real hit yet. The big plus with arctic fox wings is that they hold their shape no matter what.

coolwings

Some salmon flies for a change ....


Blackwater Special


Green Butt - tied in a semi low water style


Yellow Badger

I'll get back to tying nymphs again now

Swing4

Hello everybody from Spain, this is my last evolution of Ephemera Dánica




You saw this??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4pOOMpFW_8

ironbluedun

mayfly nymphs

coolwings

ironbluedun wrote: »

mayfly nymphs

They should do the business in a few weeks time!

ironbluedun

hopefully so, it wont be long now!!:D:D

ironbluedun

anybody tying any more????????? or are all ye gone worm fishing:D come on spill the beans...

Sfinn

Tell me ironbluedun, do you fish them (nymphs)washing line style?

ironbluedun

not normally i usually allow them to sink and fish them slow and erratic in calm water, bit like buzzer fishing, they are all leaded to get down so those are too heavy for washing line, for that i use smaller un-weighted ones.
they will work well from now on.:D

jack01986

Attempt at a Kate Mclaren

Kate McLaren Varient

Silver Invicta Varient Muddler

Bibio

jack01986

Havent ever tied salmon flies (or even fished for them) before but found a box of size 8 doubles. So thought I would throw a few together. Would they be any good on Irish rivers?

jack01986

Just got the macro working on the camera really shows up some of the things you cannot see when your tying the fly. Something I tied up this evening.

davidk11811

coolwings wrote: »

I've been busy filling up missing spaces. Here's some of them:


Amber Sedge pupa


Damselfly Nymph


Pheasant Tail Nymph


Mayfly Nymph


Green Longhorns

Midnight Blue Leech


Gammarus Pulex Shrimp


Asellus Aquaticus louse


California leech


Minkie Roach


Caddis Larva Cased

Norm

Feel free to send a few of those for free to me, I'll give them a good home!

jack01986

A few more.

Doc Farrell

hi, been away.

fantastic flies, and that macro lens is exceptional.

i sent a little donation to this site below because I think its fantastic and the older man, Dave Cammiss, who ties the flies is a pleasure to watch and listen to.

http://learnflytying.co.uk/

jack01986

Doc Farrell wrote: »

hi, been away.

fantastic flies, and that macro lens is exceptional.

i sent a little donation to this site below because I think its fantastic and the older man, Dave Cammiss, who ties the flies is a pleasure to watch and listen to.

http://learnflytying.co.uk/

Thats a really handy site, have been struggling with kilnkhammers and thats pretty much sorted it out for me. I got the camera for free was suprised at the quality thanks for the compliments.

cj salmon

here is my first flies i have attempted,pics arnt great,think im hooked already!! first is a posh tosh ,then two seatrout flies i hope will work!!!
any comments taken on board :cool:,alot to learn but determined to teach myself,,have tried a couple trout flies mainly nymphs havnt quite got the hang of the proportions and such,and still just getting a feel for it.
cheers

ironbluedun

cj salmon wrote: »

here is my first flies i have attempted,pics arnt great,think im hooked already!! first is a posh tosh ,then two seatrout flies i hope will work!!!
any comments taken on board :cool:,alot to learn but determined to teach myself,,have tried a couple trout flies mainly nymphs havnt quite got the hang of the proportions and such,and still just getting a feel for it.
cheers

they don't look too bad at all, they will work for the seatrout....

coolwings

They're nice. Should work well for both sea trout and grilse in a fresh.

Comments: Only one, not about your tying, but the streamer design of the middle one.
The black/red one has an underwing of red cock hackle tied streamer style. Well if you retrieve and see your fly at the end of most casts that's ok. But if the streamer flicks around under the hook bend, and you are fishing at night, or daytime salmon fishing down and across, and you are re-casting the full line without retrieve, then you won't spot a "caught up" streamer fly swimming badly with a corkscrew action.
It's a variation of the problem of knowing that a strand of silkweed is on your hook ruining the presentation.
So with the streamer type, either look up a matuka fly tying style and do it that way, but matukas are fiddly and there is less play or movement in the streamer hackle due to it's being tethered at top and middle, so it's a poor fix - or - make a point of actually observing the fly every so often at the end of a cast, just to be sure all is fine, and it's swimming right.

cj salmon

thanks,thats food for thought,i will check it regularly whn i fish it tonight,i tied the posh tosh quit bulky to fish on a falling flood with a deep sinker,it is a size 6 hook,do you think it is a little sparse for salmon in these conditions??
i have taken fish on black and yellow tubes,and have confidnce in the pattern,but only gtting used to using the right amount of winging and such.


on a different matter,anyone know if its possile to make a homemade tool for holding plastic tubes fo tying??

coolwings

For perfect water ,for salmon, at this time of year, I'd use 10s as the standard size.
For coloured or high water I would go up to 8s for my basic size for the day.
For low water I'd be going down to 12s for my basic size for the day.
High or low water temperature would make me go up or down 2 sizes as a test, but also try the basic size for the day.
A 6 is a very big fly this time of year, for salmon.

ironbluedun

in very low water conditions, like we had before the rain in june, size 14 is your only man....its amazing how salmon will refuse a 12 and go for a 14 in very low water...now with a fresh in the rivers size 12 would be most common, but 10 can be used too if the water is high 8-6 are too big for this time of year.....without any doubt in salmon fishing the size of fly is more important than the pattern.

cj salmon

i am going to tie some small plastic tubes with the posh tosh ,il have to get some doubles in 10s and 12s ,, is the dressing on the size 6 hook to sparse for the hook size?? ,

fontanalis

ironbluedun wrote: »

in very low water conditions, like we had before the rain in june, size 14 is your only man....its amazing how salmon will refuse a 12 and go for a 14 in very low water...now with a fresh in the rivers size 12 would be most common, but 10 can be used too if the water is high 8-6 are too big for this time of year.....without any doubt in salmon fishing the size of fly is more important than the pattern.

Even a 16, kamasan used to have good size 16 trebles. What about trout bouble hooks in size 12 for low water?

coolwings

If you fish in rivers where spring and summer salmon are resting in the same pools as grilse, I will tell you what will happen.
You get in the habit of using those titchy teeny doubles, you get to like them at catching grilse weighing 2-4lbs. Then some day, eventually, you get a take and you tighten into something that feels like the bottom, but it swims away. A certain duration later the hooks pull out, and you get your fly back with no fish attached to it.
Check out short shank, forged, carp hooks. The Kamasan B980 have a kirb, which means a twist in the wire at the bend, and the hook will not lay flat on it's side on a salmon's tongue. That and the wider gape means it's a prickly thing and it hooks as well as a double. A B980 size 10 has a short shank and will be the same length as a 12, but have immensely greater holding power useful after the fight gets under way. Sooner or later you will be glad of it.
Next, the salmon are not so single minded into size as everybody says. Watch how one angler get his fish on a long tail 10, which is the same length as a standard tied 4. Another angler the same day gets one on a lightly tied 8. People fishing other stuff like 4s blank. So size seems to be at the heart of their choices, but there is undoubtedly fly tying style (or design of the pattern) involved too.

ironbluedun

fontanalis wrote: »

Even a 16, kamasan used to have good size 16 trebles. What about trout bouble hooks in size 12 for low water?

why not? salmon will take size 10/12 single trout flies on a lough.

fontanalis

Isn't there a big difference in the scale for salmon flies and trout flies? Say a size 12 kamasan b175 will be smaller than a partridge salmon hook in size 12.
The reason I mention small flies is that someone started using size 16 flies (that no-one used before) when the water got very low and he cleaned up evening fishing during the summer when the flood was almost gone.
Just wondering if anyone used trout flies in low water as my first salmon on the fly was on a size 12 bog fly.

dody

Being snowed in for the last week made me take out the flytying gear and tie a few for the coming season.
top row; leaded scud, klink with pink post , klinkhamer.
on left; three tungsten bead pheasant tail nymphs
middle; green caddis pupa and caseless caddis
bottom; soft hackled woolly worm with + without bead.

Has anyone used the woolly worm much? . I'm giving it a go next season after reading 'active nymphing' by Rich Osthoff. All fired up i am!
2 of the pheasant tails are tied up on tiemco 2499 barbless hooks. I find them great for holding decent trout on small nymphs compared to knapek nymph hooks.

jack01986

Gonna start breaking out the fly tying stuff soon enough. I'm looking into doing some salmon fishing next year what sort of materials will I need to get as Ive only really got trout materials. Also what would be two good all round hook sizes?

jack01986

Oh nice flies dody, impressive klinkhamers I always struggle with them.

dody

Thanks Jack01986, i found them fiddly until i got a genetic saddle and the hackles wound on lovely. And they,re tougher.

ironbluedun

jack01986 wrote: »

Also what would be two good all round hook sizes?

for summer grilse size 10 and 12 doubles or trebles.

TimMac

What about springers IBD?

ironbluedun wrote: »

for summer grilse size 10 and 12 doubles or trebles.

okedoke

making a determined effort to catch more bass this year so I've been tying up bass flies for the last few days - here's a couple:

Gurglers


Clousers


Surf candy type flies


Ray's Flies


steve