Very nice. You have to love it when a new fly pattern leads to a big fish!

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I did some with eyes.

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I did a few with eyes. The added eyes, along with the UV cure, certainly change how the pattern swims. The eyeless ones are about neutrally buoyant and sink as the fluorocarbon leader sinks. They stay horizontal as they very slowly fall in the water column. I haven’t tried them on a nylon leader, but they might just stay just under the surface with nylon. I can work in the eyeless ones very slowly without fear of snagging on hidden deep obstructions.

The ones with added glue on 3D type eyes sink at a slow to moderate pace and dip at the nose at about a 45 degree angle when they sink.

So far, the eyeless ones have produced a few bass and the ones with eyes ( I did some more with smaller 3D eyes in that bass type color not pictured) have also produced a couple of bass and couple of nice channel catfish.

Nice looking bait, the green/white suits me.
Does that hair absorb water?

Testing the new FFF image uploader.

“Sybai's is generally longer and has a higher proportion of long hair to underfur. In short (no pun intended), more of the qualities you're paying for.”

https://www.jsflyfishing.com/sybai-icelandic-sheep-wool

This sybai’s is better than their other brand, costs more, but I think it is worth it. Straighter fibers, too.

I’ve cast them with either one of my 7/8 weight CGRs or or 7/8 weight G. Loomis Short Stix. The lines are SA grand Slam 8 weight and SA saltwater Titan 8 weight and I can’t remember on the third, all floater lines, probably something similar on the third line. Those rods are my sort of bread and butter normal go to rods out in the saltwater and for LMB. I haven’t tried the Icelandic Sheep hair streamers with a 6 weight yet.

The Icelandic streamers aren’t as relatively effortless to cast as a size 1 gartside soft hackle streamer. They cast about like a deer hair diver on the same size hook. They cast with less effort than a blunt faced deer hair bushy bass popper. I’m using ~10’ total length knotted leaders, 12-15# tippet.

I typically like to cast and fish out to about 70’ or closer and these Icelandic Sheep Hair streamers aren’t too much trouble to that range with these rods. I think if needed or wanted to go out another 10-20 feet, I’d choose a different rod like the 9’ 8 weight TFO BVK I own or my 9 weight echo BAG Quickshot or perhaps something else.

The sheep hair can be sized any way so I’d just downsize and thin them up a bit if casting distance and casting effort trumped any other consideration. I plan to do some slightly smaller ones for greater ease of casting and maybe smaller ones might be the right choice for the fish on any given outing. I can envision having many of these in various sizes and color patterns. I’m back to carrying bunches of flies when I fish, they really don’t require a ton of space, and being curious about fly size and color effects on the fish.

It’s like I’m placing a bet on these, if it works out, I’ll have some great fishing and they’ll be a big part of what I want to do. If they don’t work out that great, I’ll stop tying and fishing them, but I have this idea that I need several of slightly different sizes and colors to hone in on what it is that will work the best.

I like working with the wool on the vise much better than the synthetic material like Steve Farrar Blend or EP for streamers so that encourages me to tie more.