What flies have you tied today? Post pics here.

coolwings

That looks nice. Hope you enjoy using it!
You have furnace hackles in that according to the photo.
So here are another two patterns that use this material:

Wet Greenwell Spider:
Tail three short strands of furnace hackle
Body any light olive or pale yellow colour silk,floss, or feather fibre, thin at tail end, thicker at shoulder
Rib: gold wire over to protect body
Hackle: 2-3 turns of furnace hen hackle


Woolley Worm:
Use for winter and spring trout as it imitates dragonfly nymph (fast) and cased caddis grub (slow) depending on the way you fish it.
Long shank hook 12-10
Tail: short tuft of yellow or fluo yellow wool cut short
Body: peachock herl 3 strands wound into a rope first
Body hackle: furnace or ginger wound palmered (up the body)

ironbluedun

TimMac wrote: »

What about springers IBD?

anything from 1.5 inch copper tubes or bottle tubes down to size 12/14 hairwings, really it totally depends upon water levels and the river/pool in question.

coolwings

Not a photo of a fly this time, but nonetheless some folks may be interested to see the setup I use.

yank_in_eire

okedoke wrote: »

making a determined effort to catch more bass this year so I've been tying up bass flies for the last few days - here's a couple:

Gurglers


Clousers


Surf candy type flies


Ray's Flies


steve

Very nice! I bet that brown surf candy would do the business around kelp beds.

okedoke

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Very nice! I bet that brown surf candy would do the business around kelp beds.

cheers, baby pollock was the look I was after

yank_in_eire

okedoke wrote: »

cheers, baby pollock was the look I was after

Could I make one suggestion - get a bit of hot orange in there as well. Most of the pollock fingerlings I see while diving have rusty coloured bellies. I do one of those with Polar Fibre and copper angel hair - if I can knock up a few would you be on for a swap?

okedoke

yank_in_eire wrote: »

Could I make one suggestion - get a bit of hot orange in there as well. Most of the pollock fingerlings I see while diving have rusty coloured bellies. I do one of those with Polar Fibre and copper angel hair - if I can knock up a few would you be on for a swap?

Yea - sounds good I'll knock up say 4 of these guys with a dash of orange on their belly - swap you for 4 of yours?

yank_in_eire

okedoke wrote: »

Yea - sounds good I'll knock up say 4 of these guys with a dash of orange on their belly - swap you for 4 of yours?

Good deal - I'll pm you my details.

jack01986

Starting to fill up my big box slowly!

okedoke

I like the look of those Chernobyl Ants - any success with these in Ireland?

Doc Farrell

jack01986 wrote: »

Starting to fill up my big box slowly!

wow! what's the smallest there? 22? 24? very very impressive.

Doc Farrell

coolwings wrote: »

Not a photo of a fly this time, but nonetheless some folks may be interested to see the setup I use.

coolwings, i owe u a couple of favours so i've got a proposition for you. I'll take three copies of your ten favourite flies for thirty quid. what do u think? i can collect them from your shop in the next couple of weeks.

what do u think? more trouble then its worth for u? its my birthday in a week so i'm going to treat myself to some flies anyway.

jack01986

okedoke wrote: »

I like the look of those Chernobyl Ants - any success with these in Ireland?

I haven't actually tried them in Ireland yet ive never caught with them but just have them in there just in case.;)

Doc Farrell wrote: »

wow! what's the smallest there? 22? 24? very very impressive.

Thanks for that, smallest in there is 22 its a bit hard on the eyes when tying them to the leader.:D

okedoke

jack01986 wrote: »

I haven't actually tried them in Ireland yet ive never caught with them but just have them in there just in case.;)

Is it black foam on both sides or a different colour underneath? Might tie up a few for the craic.

jack01986

okedoke wrote: »

Is it black foam on both sides or a different colour underneath? Might tie up a few for the craic.

Its only foam on the top part underneath is some teased out material to look like legs and part of the body.

okedoke

jack01986 wrote: »

Its only foam on the top part underneath is some teased out material to look like legs and part of the body.

cheers jack

Racha78

Buzzer for early season

Cosimo Salvatore

I've been mixing it up recently. Going to try the moth today, also have been using wasps and sometimes bluebottles. Will keep you updated.

Compton

photoshop?

coolwings

Yeah. Windup post.

Cosimo Salvatore

My bad, my bad. I wasn't trying to wind anyone up though. Apologies for moving things slightly off topic.

Back on topic.

jack01986

http://www.grahamowengallery.com/fishing/Tying-Realistic-Stonefly-Nymph.html

ironbluedun

jack01986 wrote: »

http://www.grahamowengallery.com/fishing/Tying-Realistic-Stonefly-Nymph.html

huge work involved in making that thing, defo not worth the hassle.

experimenter

How do even think about casting this!!!

premiercad

My fly tying bench, retro fitted and old PC table..;)

coolwings

Very tidy.
I like your use of light colours for the drawer units. There's nothing worse then a confusing mixed colour background while fly tying, except maybe a wobbly fly vice!

premiercad

Thanks Coolwings, its NEVER that tidy, i want to add a back drop panel behind the vice for a vison panel though (make it removable) and stick a cutting board on the bench to the left for cutting with a scalpel but after that i'm happy enough...

anyone else got a tying sation they want to show? interesting to see what other folk on here call fly tying home

coolwings

Already posted somewhere else, but here it is again.

J. Ramone

Ah, I see I'm not unique with the sheet of white paper!

coolwings

It's absolutely vital!