Jalthoff, those flatwings are very nice indeed! It sure feels nice that in a couple of weeks stripers will be here ... this has been a tough winter. Hope to see you on the water sometime.

I wanted to see what you guys thought about this little woolly bugger variant I've been working on. It has a pheasant tail body and hackle. It's nothing special, but I thought it might work.

My wife and I live on basically two patterns. The Parachute Adams in various sizes and colors and the Black Ant. These for the surface. For nymphing I live on the Prince Nymph. My wife refuses to fish anything but a dry. She's such a purist.

Small nymphs. These are all on a size 18 hook, from Allen, style 2457.

Brassie.


Brassie.


Brassie.


Mercury midge?

Peacock dubbing. Glass beads are about 2 mm, from a fabric store. They come in one quantity: lifetime supply.

I recently read a Gierach piece where he said about fly tying, you know what you're doing after the first hundred dozen. With that in mind, I'm working on my first hundred dozen.

Most recently fished on the Cache le Poudre River.

I've been doing some nymphs for winter fishing. The little landlocked salmon seemed to really like the rainbow warriors on my last outing. I call the red glass bead-headed ones "winter warriors". I think sometimes in really cold water a very colorful and flashy nymph works well.

Thanks David, I hope you stick a steelie with your soft hackle!

I've caught plenty of trout on salmon flies as well. It's fun fishing "outside the box". Best of luck to you!

Weather getting more fall like here and rainbows and browns will be on the move. Just had a good rain to raise the water. Tied up some San Juan worms, gold bead muskrat nymphs and some brown and black hackles. Small globugs will soon be attractive to the fish also. Fish mainly the tribs of the Tukituki, Ngaruroro and the Tutaekuri this time of year.

Jalthoff, Sea Run Brookies. Never had the opportunity. Maybe someday. We can dream can't we ;-)

how did I just now see this thread? If I would of seen it a while back, I probably wouldn't have started the one below...oh well. I do like seeing everything people are currently working on in one ongoing thread as opposed to an individual thread for each pattern, but that's just my own personal preference.

I've just been throwing together some clousers & a combination of Boss and Commets (Bossmets?) for salty and estuary salmon.

regardless, interesting gutless frog above...

Cheers

turning over a new leaf and taking pics of what worked for me this past season.these are fly jigs sz 14 and 12,some are brass bead and some tungsten.they accounted for all kinds of sunfish crappies warmouth green longear rockbass bluegill redear and all their hybrid and crossbred cousins.also got a few stocked trout on these.the hooks are barbless 60 degree jig fly hooks

I fish the Missisquoi River drainage in Northern Vermont primarily. This year I've been lucky to only tie and fish 3 patterns.....A lot of each, but just 3. Adams size 14, Soft Hackle Devastator size 14, and the Fury Minnow in olive size 12 and 14. Of those the Devastator gets used the most.

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Hook...size 18 - 12 1x long nymph
Thread...black
Under body....10 winds of lead or tungsten wire
Tail and wing case....single piece of bronze mallard flank
Body....tan uni yarn
Rib.....copper wire
Hackle......mottled brown hen hackle

I fish this one as a streamer, casted down stream and bounced along the bottom with short fast strips. Works just as well in lakes the same way. The idea is to imitate a juvenile sculpin or darter.