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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 19 Mar 2023, 14:27 • #1301 
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I will look into this pattern Thanks for your in put.I might have some mink.The sheds are olive brownish and kind of mottled.The images from local college databases show them as more olive and mottled.The few vids i watched they seem to kind of jet propel themselves in spurts.So i have been fishing mine to subtlely maybe.A quicker strip pause cadence near bottom may work better.Observing a local insect phenomenom ,trying to find athe right pattern not only in looks but how it moves is a wonderful thing when you actually catch fish.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 30 Apr 2023, 08:18 • #1302 
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A few more musky/bull trout/BIG bass flies that have come off my vise recently....apparently a few folks on another forum decided they should pay for these. How could I say no? At any rate, as I'm sure most here know, I really enjoy tying this style of fly. All have a little bit of foam off the bend which in and of itself lends to a very unstable platform making it easier for the fly to act like a jerk bait. On some, I've also added a counter balance closer to the front on the underside to both help keel and to give the fly a little more heft so that it acts more like a glide bait when fished properly (that takes some practice on the anglers part). With the more glide bait style, if one strips it really hard, it'll kick to one one side (keep the cadence up and it'll walk the dog) but when it kicks, it kicks to the side along with the fly going sideways, then on the pause it gradually rights itself. It's during this pause that I get a ton of my tiger muskies.

Cheers!








Added a couple more to the my own box:



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 03 May 2023, 08:00 • #1303 
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Location: Hoot Owl Yards, ATX

Simple cork Bass popper.

Clarkman23 those big streamers are bad to the bone.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 27 May 2023, 12:06 • #1304 
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When you lose your dry fly box in the river and have to start over from scratch.... Not entirely a bad thing esp. when one is not an expert tyer, but I have to learn to zip my vest pocket after changing flies :(


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 03 Jul 2023, 08:30 • #1305 
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This buggy critter will hopefully find some soft mouths of a few invasives today...




edit: also....this:



they both worked.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 31 Jul 2023, 21:52 • #1306 
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Just tied 12 of these coffin soft hackle flies … now if I can just find a green drake hatch … I just started tying so uphill climb has just begun but I saw some progress as I tied 12 of these. Hackle feathers were not the best but what do you think expect for a kit …


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 04 Aug 2023, 20:41 • #1307 
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Waiting for the tiny ants season...







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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 05 Aug 2023, 10:37 • #1308 
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First try at a Hares Ear All-Fur Wet (from Dave Hughes, Wet Flies Second Ed.) I bought some silk thread but find it a bear to tie with.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 05 Aug 2023, 14:12 • #1309 
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Boy, that looks buggy and good! If I were a trout, I'd chomp that! :)


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 09 Aug 2023, 10:39 • #1310 
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Just started to get into tube flies. Which is fitting considering I just found an Epic DH11 (the glass versions).


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 27 Aug 2023, 14:31 • #1311 
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Some of the Barry Orde Clarke hot glue ants



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 07 Sep 2023, 13:16 • #1312 
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Location: Wasilla Alaska


Being fairly new around here; this’ll be my first post, on this thread, as a brand new fly fisher/tyer etc! While working thru my quiver i’m developing a keen interest in tying and am making efforts there and brining in some materials to work on this winter.

Go online and look at all the types, styles, colors, sizes etc of fly’s and from my viewpoint; it looks like anything goes! The only fly i can name is a wooly bugger so to me they are just expressions of some tyer. I know what a nymph is and a streamer.

Between learning about the rod’s reel’s and line, how to use them, getting good at using them and finding some simple bugs i can tie will fill up the winter.

I’ve tied several getting the hang of the process and this is the first thing i’d put out in public! I don’t know what it is but it looks good to Grandkids!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 08 Sep 2023, 08:30 • #1313 
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Golden Woolly Bugger. I found this in a recent Tim Flagler video. Effective fly.



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 08 Sep 2023, 19:21 • #1314 
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I’ve been tying one fly each day, right after Rabbit and Garden chores.
Here’s todays effort.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 10 Sep 2023, 16:19 • #1315 
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Alasgun, great idea to tie every day. In my experience that helps with intuitive muscle memory. Being in AK, I imagine you are accustomed to working with your hands!Keep it up.
Been fishing a lot of topwater lately. Local pond has a bunch of hungry Greenies.

This one of my favorite cork poppers so far.


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 17 Sep 2023, 18:45 • #1316 
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Keuka Sunset




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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 18 Sep 2023, 03:54 • #1317 
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Experimenting with extended body versions of my Alien Bug
About my Alien Bug:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69907

EB (extended body) Alien Bug





Salmon fly experiment











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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 21 Sep 2023, 16:48 • #1318 
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Been tying black/blue and purple Silvenator tube flies for fishing summer steelhead on the Deschutes River with my 8 1/2’ NFC 8wt glass rod. Easy to tie and super effective. I use a #4 Owners barbless trailing hook which reduces short strikes and allows easy release. Caddis Fly Shop and Portland Fly Shop both have great instructional YouTubes.

Enjoy


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 30 Sep 2023, 08:02 • #1319 
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Good-looking bugs. I see the eye of a hook up front. Is there a trailing stinger hook as well?

I've taken to making big flies on a Snellie, with one hook only and a barrel or even. Snap swivel up front I get too many tangles with mono And more than one hook


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 30 Sep 2023, 10:50 • #1320 
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Filling out my "Halloween Collection" :lol



Cheers!


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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 04 Oct 2023, 11:42 • #1321 
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Location: Arkansas
Rio Bandito

It’s been a good pattern this year but I’ve been using one based off of it that I call the Ozark Bandit. The Bandit is also tied kinda like a Crazydad too.

The Rio Bandito landed 8 Smallies on Monday. I tried several other patterns on a stream that I haven’t fished in ages. This was the top producer in the last 45 minutes. I also credit the sun. I do think the bite picks up with Smallies when the sun brightens up. A dozen bass for me and a dozen for me friend that used several other patterns. 3 hours. The Bandito made me feel successful.

This photo is after I got home. A little beat up. Aussie Possum fur dubbed body. Guard hairs near at the bead. Rubber legs and hairs hairs for the mandibles.





The Ozark Bandit ( last photo) of which I’ve made a few fishing posts with it. My top producer but the Bandito had been nice to have on these low flow streams with skittish fish too.

A fly shop sent me the beads. Too bright. Neon. Colored with Sharpie. I also used a paint pen for lighter brown.



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 30 Oct 2023, 18:32 • #1322 
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I really like that Rio Bandito, @Panfish74

Here's my latest color concoction of my latest style (2 segments, foam off the hook bend plus counterbalance up front to make it even more unstable).

Basically just a Joker head (and arse if you look close enough)



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 05 Nov 2023, 22:10 • #1323 
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Squirmy wormy



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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 11 Nov 2023, 23:39 • #1324 
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I found in my basement an old package of Eagle Claw Billy Pate hooks I bought in the late 1990s. Tied few Bucktail Candies on them...I remember those hooks being pretty sharp out of the box...They still work well!

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Re: What's in your vise?
Post 13 Nov 2023, 09:16 • #1325 
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Very nice Musicar! I'd say they still work!


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