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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 14 Apr 2017, 21:03 • #326 
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Some Mickey Finns. Read about them today so I thought I would tie a few and maybe try them in the Smokies this month. They won't win any contests, but they are OK for me. Had to use what I had on hand; i.e., #8 weighted streamer hooks, yellow calf tail, red buck tail, and silver tinsel.
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 14 Apr 2017, 21:18 • #327 
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mickey finn is an old favorite and personal fave of mine. those flies will raise a little hell in the smokies. have a great time.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 Apr 2017, 12:35 • #328 
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Just tied up a few Mickey Finns using yellow maribou. Didn't have any red maribou so I used red buck tail for the middle section.
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 Apr 2017, 16:39 • #329 
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Those will work.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 Apr 2017, 17:52 • #330 
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Beauties, Joe, like your style! Jim


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 Apr 2017, 21:28 • #331 
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Thanks picketpin52, mdwwhw, and Jim for the positive comments and reviews. I now have faith in them.
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Apr 2017, 22:59 • #332 
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Nice mickey finn's !

Got hold of some blue holographic tinsel, #16 jig hooks and 7/64" tungsten slotted beads and tried my hand at the Navy Diver nymph I saw on the Trout Unlimited site this past winter.

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Kind of wondering if the Sulky Holoshimmer in the tying video would have been easier to work with than the Orvis stuff.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 13 May 2017, 21:07 • #333 
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I started tying with 'predator wrap'. This combined with Farrar Blend is truly nice stuff....sheds water like no other and has some super sexy movement to entice those Tiger Muskies...

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 14 May 2017, 08:40 • #334 
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 May 2017, 08:09 • #335 
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I like that take on a mop...


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 May 2017, 21:36 • #336 
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The pink forehead on thr fly is very cool! Have you fished them yet? What size is the fly?
Thanks MikeW! Great looking fly!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 16 May 2017, 15:28 • #337 
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jhuskey wrote:
The pink forehead on thr fly is very cool! Have you fished them yet? What size is the fly?
Thanks MikeW! Great looking fly!

Thank you
No haven't fished it yet not sure on the hook it's a size 8 or 10
Let ya know tonight.
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I tied some on a Gamakatsu SL 45 #8 and some on a Mustad kink shank popper hook #10


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 29 May 2017, 09:55 • #338 
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A bass fluke...was in it. :)
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 07 Jun 2017, 12:03 • #339 
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Couple experimental streamers I have named "Soccer Hooligans" as they were inspired by Blaine Chocklett's Game Changer and Tommy Lynch's Drunk & Disorderly fly - and when I think drunks and games - I think soccer (football) hooligans

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They are articulated on Fish Skull Fish Spines, and mix craft fur, marabou, lite brite/ice dub, and deer hair. So far I only have three prototype flies tied up - going to field test them this weekend.

One is heavier on marabou content, the other is more craft fur - should be easy to tell which is which.

Also been working on some other buck tail and marabou creations - bigger bluegill imitating flies mostly - as I really want to get some big bass on the fly this year.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 07 Jun 2017, 13:22 • #340 
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Couple more I had forgotten to take pix of... these I have fished and ohboy do they have some nice action. Fished on a floating line they suspend or sink very slowly. When twitched at a pause they dart and glide. When stripped in the articulations and the saddles really wiggle like a swimming fish.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 25 Jun 2017, 19:27 • #341 
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Attempted a soft hackle size 14. Picked up a handful of feathers while in the chicken coop today and was looking for something to do with them. Image


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 29 Jun 2017, 08:57 • #342 
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surf perch and pink/coho salmon flies

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 29 Jun 2017, 11:03 • #343 
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ive tying up lots of brush gamechangers and using/testing the new Howitzer popper heads from flymen. they are super fun to fish!!
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 29 Jun 2017, 20:59 • #344 
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Those howitzers look deadly !!

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 30 Jun 2017, 09:01 • #345 
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pecosjuan wrote:
Those howitzers look deadly !!

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but now I can't see your photos...


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 04 Jul 2017, 14:54 • #346 
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Happy 4th Y'all
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Simple hardware store cork stopper shaped with the ol' Dremel.
Taking it down to the pond for bluegills & tommycod! haha


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 06 Jul 2017, 09:09 • #347 
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Before I started tying I really didn't fish mayfly imitations much, but I tried an Adams a while back and then got the "bug" :)

#16 Adams
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#14 light cahill
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#16 BWO
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#12 western green drake -- moose hair, deer hair and floss
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I need to try some other techniques, like using quill bodies, comparaduns and parachutes. It's always tough to keep to the classic proportions, not overcrowd the eye, etc. Still working on that.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 06 Jul 2017, 20:24 • #348 
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i think those are awesome ties,love the classics and attempt to tie a few now and then.they last for exactly 1 bluegill and are trashed,did catch a big largemouth on a sz12 badly tied royal coachman.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 11 Jul 2017, 21:39 • #349 
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A 'Super Salamander'.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 11 Jul 2017, 22:37 • #350 
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I'm diggin' that Super Salamander fly...


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