Besides tying a few flies this weekend I inked a little flying midge to start off your week. Good luck to anyone that attempts to tie this puppy up. I wouldn't suggest fishing it either.
Like a lot of my recent little doodles I really cant explain it. I started out with a little line and it all just kind of morphs into a weird kinda angle winged midge thing. This kind of doodle is what you get when your stuck in an airport with a bone chilling -15 degree wind howling outside and no plane to take you home.
Simply put - I Need To Go Fishing!
I also took some time Sunday afternoon to tie up some wet flies using bodies of wool I scored from my wife's yarn basket. Its not the first time I've raided her stash and since I was running a little low on floss for bodies of flies I decided to see what she recently had stocked up on.
What I found was a nice 85% wool 15% mohair mix red that just screamed to used on my fishy flies. I had to thin it out a bit while tying it into my bodies but the result was a great selection of blood red bodied wet flies. I even decided to tie up a few Sawyers Killer Bugs with the material. I am not sure how well the fish will accept the new color but I figured that since I have had such great success with the original Killer bug, a new color would be well worth the try.
For the wet flies It was just a simple ingredient mix of #14 hooks, weight, brown thread, red wool, and a Hungarian Partridge. For the Killer Bug I just left out the Partridge and used a little copper wire.
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| Butchered Sawyer Bug |
Of course I couldn't just tie up only a few blood red bugs so I used a few remaining Partridge feathers I had plucked to tie up a few green and brown wet flies to fill up the box. Keeping with the theme of the day I used poached yard for these flies as well. I have had a variety of success with the brown color yarn on other flies but very little with the green colors but I have never used either color on a wet fly. Perhaps the addition of a grizzly partridge will help to make these more appealing to those finiky trout. If not then I am sure the sunfish will love them once the lakes start warming up. Either way I am sure to get some use out of them.
Enjoy your week.
Certainly a "buggy" looking yarn. Simple patterns made from the simplest of tying supplies sometimes turn out to be the staples in a fly box full of different patterns.
ReplyDeleteMel - if there's one thing I can do in my fly tying it's whip out simple flies. Have me stack some deer hair or complicate it all with more than four ingredients and I'm completely lost.
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ReplyDeleteWhat really gets my attention with these flies is the color selection. I am a big fan of bright colors when tying flies. Bright colors for me are a big attractor on those slow days. You did an exceptional job at the bench with this pattern. Thanks for sharing
Bill - it might look flashy but I think the camera brings that out. I just got done fishing them today and they look a lot darker in the water. Really deep blood red. Wish I had a picture with one in a trout's lip but those are the breaks. Had to check out about the time things were heating up. I'm sure they will catch fish in the future - they just looked to good in the water not to fish them again.
ReplyDeleteLove the drawing. Would you mind if I used it on my business card?
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