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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 07 Jun 2020, 16:13 • #1001 
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Nice Brockton! Just like riding a bike!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 08 Jun 2020, 18:23 • #1002 
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Nice flies allaround, friends!
I tied a bunch of shrimp GP's over the weekend, to replenish my supplies. Why? Because it is that time again...for sight-casting on the flats. Not a lot of fish on the flat today, but there will be more, as this month progresses.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 09 Jun 2020, 07:32 • #1003 
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Nice Vlad! Stalking the flats for them, now that sounds like even more fun!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 09 Jun 2020, 12:10 • #1004 
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MikeInChile wrote:
So these are done with Steve Farrar's UV blend? They look excellent!


assuming that's addressed to me? Thanks! no, I've moved away from Farrar. These are primarily bucktail, saddle hackle & flash. A couple have marabou tails and a couple have raccoon for tail material.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 10 Jun 2020, 07:50 • #1005 
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Nice Vlad! Stalking the flats for them, now that sounds like even more fun!


Thanks...Indeed, very much like fishing for bonefish. :)


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 12 Jun 2020, 15:33 • #1006 
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Getting braver. Tried some stimulators. The bottom one came out better.



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 12 Jun 2020, 19:52 • #1007 
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Both look good to me. Well done.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Jun 2020, 08:43 • #1008 
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Craw-Dads in honor of the day.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Jun 2020, 09:50 • #1009 
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Those will work well for our local Smallies, and Happy Fathers Day


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Jun 2020, 12:11 • #1010 
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VDub, Same to you.

Pattern credit to Bmbailes of Panther Branch Bugs.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Jun 2020, 23:48 • #1011 
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Matching the hatch with my first game changer tie.





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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 22 Jun 2020, 07:59 • #1012 
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Nice El Duderino!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 22 Jun 2020, 10:24 • #1013 
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Nothing exotic; Black cricket for farm pond LMB.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 25 Jun 2020, 10:35 • #1014 
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Rio Grande King from interest generated from the Trude thread. Great thread BtW.

Hook - Firehole 419 size 12
Tail - Golden Pheasant
Gold foil wraps under tail
Superfine dubbing black
Wing - White Zelon (couldn’t find calftail)
Hackle - Whiting Bronze cape in Furnace color





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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 26 Jun 2020, 15:02 • #1015 
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I am testing a replacement for Pearsall's Gossamer silk. Found a French silk under the name EPHEMERA SOIE, in size A (approximately). A big wood spool of 100 meters. Not as tight a twist as Gossamer, but the thread still handles well. This colour (625 I believe, as this is on the spool) is similar to the Pearsall's 6A (or A6?).

PARTRIDGE & ORANGE
Ingredients:
-a UK-made, Partridge "Roman Moser" barbless dry-fly hook, # 10
-bees-wax
-a hint of hare's mask
-a ruff feather from a Hungarian partridge neck
-& the EPHEMERA silk of course
-water based cement (if you wish)

I tied it exactly as Dave Hughes advised. Hackle is reverse wound (backward), with silk zig-zagged through the thorax & collar, to the front.
I usually tie soft hackles in tip-first, dries butt-first, but this method seemed to work fine. When wet, the Orange is indistinguishable from Pearsall's Gossamer.
Nice stuff, me thinks. Now I'm going to check out their purple, claret, greens & primrose silks.

I got the silk from a source in Massey, Ontario: flymart.ca (3.90 CAD)




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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 26 Jun 2020, 15:11 • #1016 
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Love that soft hackle!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 03 Jul 2020, 10:12 • #1017 
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 03 Jul 2020, 14:56 • #1018 
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Couple FGCs I tied up as a surprise for a couple of guys that represent the industry and community very well.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 04 Jul 2020, 17:38 • #1019 
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Nice Game Changers!

I tied few this morning, some for trout, some for salt...


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 05 Jul 2020, 14:59 • #1020 
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Do you guy's know how amazing your work is? I can see the fish coming up in my mind.

Someday I might figure some of those out, but meanwhile I'm going to FlyMart.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 07 Jul 2020, 06:47 • #1021 
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EB Newfarm wrote:
Nice ties, Swedishfish218, interesting to hear that they could be effective as streamers. what size are they?


Firehole 315 or 316 hooks size 6.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 10 Jul 2020, 15:44 • #1022 
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QJordan23 wrote:


Couple FGCs I tied up as a surprise for a couple of guys that represent the industry and community very well.

oh hell yeah! nice looking flies!


I've had these dragon tails for a while and finally decided to tie one into something. It'll get the swim test tomorrow...hopefully the fish like it.




Cheers!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 12 Jul 2020, 13:25 • #1023 
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clarkman23 wrote:
I've had these dragon tails for a while and finally decided to tie one into something. It'll get the swim test tomorrow...hopefully the fish like it.




Cheers!


Nice tail - that may be the muskiest-looking fly I’ve ever seen.

When I started tying a few months ago, one of my primary goals was to learn how to spin deer hair heads. Finally got a fishable head on my third zoo cougar. Hard to get a good photo of white deer hair, but you get the idea.





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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 14 Jul 2020, 18:14 • #1024 
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I like that zoo cougar! It is harder than it looks!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 15 Jul 2020, 09:56 • #1025 
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Been getting some tying in during this heat wave. Used to heat here in Texas but 106 plus an additional few degrees of heat index factored in has me hunkered down in the AC. I have done up some redfish flies based on the Candy Corn Crawler by Backwater Flies in colors they do not offer. Based my color choices on what I have seen and read many conventional tackle guys use along the coast and what has been effective for me around here for bass. Planning on doing some in more subdued shrimp/baitfish colors.



Of course I have been doing a mess of clousers too. Can never have too many even though the white bass runs are close to 7 months away. I often wonder how they would work with a slab and jig rig during the summer.

I also have a question. Does anyone have a good pattern for the glass minnow? Been going over a couple ideas in my head but haven't reached in conclusions that seem good yet.


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