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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 14:03 • #151 
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more bass bugs for me...as usual:)
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 14:22 • #152 
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Beautiful! Jim


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 14:58 • #153 
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Amazing work!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 15:04 • #154 
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bmbailes, great looking bass bugs. Do you tie the colors in with different color deer hair or use a felt tip pen?


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 19:42 • #155 
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whoa. that is some impressive deer hair work.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 19:58 • #156 
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The outsider...I stack different colors. No coloring on any of my bugs.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Mar 2016, 21:47 • #157 
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VERY impressive bmbailes.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 20 Mar 2016, 12:23 • #158 
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probably my most productive fly.
My interpretation of a "March Brown".

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 20 Mar 2016, 13:10 • #159 
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outstanding deer hair work-p-


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Mar 2016, 08:07 • #160 
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Mar 2016, 09:14 • #161 
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Wow! You guys have been busy at the vise. And I need to get going. Lots of slots to fill in my trout box.

Bailes, your deer bugs are downright pretty. Don't know how a fish could refuse ;-)
Corey, nice take on a traditional pattern. MB is a favorite hatch of mine, even if it is sporadic. Mike is that yellow parachute fly a drake pattern?


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Mar 2016, 09:22 • #162 
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Actually it's a size 16 pale morning dun


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Mar 2016, 11:01 • #163 
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I can't come close to the deer-hair work presented above (VERY VERY nice work!), buuuuut...

I've been working on a more flashy steelhead fly. My fist several attempts had a bit more flash and less hackle and I wasn't happy with how they swam. Here, I cut back a little bit on the flash and used more and stiffer hackle to give it a bit of body. This one has Mallard flank for the collar (the other that I can't get a picture that looks like good, but I think I'm going to like how it swims, has a marabou collar). Preliminary tests tell me that this will swim very nicely.

I thought about cleaning up the head, but I like the idea of it being rough so that when it swims it gives it a little more erratic movement.

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Mar 2016, 20:36 • #164 
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I have a squirrel pelt obtained from a road kill. I cleaned and dried it and cut it into a few pieces and I dyed some of them.
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I tied these flymphs using squirrel guard hairs and fur, and tinsel ribbing. Makes a very buggy, impressionistic fly.
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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 22 Mar 2016, 19:53 • #165 
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Corlay, that's a beautiful march brown.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 08:24 • #166 
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March Brown and large Olives for me :

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 10:26 • #167 
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Great pics!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 11:08 • #168 
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Blue Charm, your flies are very nice. Aside from materials selection, color, a key to well-tied flies, such as yours shown here, is proper proportion, and IMO yours are perfect. Folks would do well to study these and note your sense of scale -- tail, body, wing... all parts of the fly are well proportioned. Very nice.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 13:11 • #169 
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Thank you so much friends, but I'm a DIY fly tyer only. This is a comic made by a friend of mine, using a Cracco and Bastianich Master Chef pic. I'll translate for you as it's in Italian.

Cracco said: "did you see Blue Charm's fly box?"
Bastianich replied : "I saw, such flies are so ugly they don't even land onto a dog's $$$$" :lol

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 14:37 • #170 
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LOL! sei troppo modesto il mio amico


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 16:45 • #171 
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A couple of green drakes

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 20:15 • #172 
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Mike, I like the first one a lot. Green drakes are difficult for me. They're just so big! I have been working on a few myself. I'll take some pics and post. Ours in the Catskills are a bit paler in color -- creamy yellow olive with dark veined wings that are similar to yours.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 23 Mar 2016, 20:33 • #173 
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picketpin52 wrote:
Mike, I like the first one a lot. Green drakes are difficult for me. They're just so big! I have been working on a few myself. I'll take some pics and post. Ours in the Catskills are a bit paler in color -- creamy yellow olive with dark veined wings that are similar to yours.


I'm familiar with them. I grew up in NY and lived in Liberty for 5 years. I spent many evenings on the Willow.

The ones out west are definitely different. Smaller and different colored. Different specie.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 24 Mar 2016, 09:06 • #174 
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Hey Mike, you and I very likely shared the same water at some point. I have been fishing the Catskills for more years than I like to admit!

For the most part, my go to fly for green drakes is the White Wulff. I've also had success with a Gray Fox Variant. The pattern I'm working on now is basically a size 10 comparadun. Pics coming.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 24 Mar 2016, 09:58 • #175 
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picketpin52 wrote:
Hey Mike, you and I very likely shared the same water at some point. I have been fishing the Catskills for more years than I like to admit!

For the most part, my go to fly for green drakes is the White Wulff. I've also had success with a Gray Fox Variant. The pattern I'm working on now is basically a size 10 comparadun. Pics coming.


I used to fish behind the rest area on Rte 17 just about every evening. I would go w/ a size 10 hook that's 2x or 3x long. Here is my dun and spinner.

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