Some more Ties

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:07 pm

Hi all, These strong Easterlies have stopped play so I thought i'd mess around with some more fly tying as I haven't done any for a while.

Thought the utc tinsel on the belly added a new dimension to the conventional.

And another way of tying the conventional.

An all Bucktail generic Baitfish pattern.

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 4:32 pm

nice tying chris winking

Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:25 pm

Lovely flies chris, been having a little practice too. one of my latest:)

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 8:55 am

Getting the hang of it now Skuffa winking

well done.

Member Joined: Dec 30, 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Croydon

Chris, I am sure they will catch fish, but, the last one will fish hook down as unlike the clouser it does not have weighted eyes, so surely the white should be under with the yellow on top?
Tom.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 12:27 pm

Scierra wrote:

Chris, I am sure they will catch fish, but, the last one will fish hook down as unlike the clouser it does not have weighted eyes, so surely the white should be under with the yellow on top?
Tom.

I think your reffering to Skuffa's fly Tom.

Yes really the white should be on the bottom to form the 'belly' of the fly, and the yellow/charteruese should be on the top to form the 'back' for conventional thinking, however, odd colour combinations, and unusual non fishy colours do catch plenty of fish, believe me! Perhaps Skuffa has wrapped the shank in lead wire to invert the hook?

Member Joined: Dec 30, 2009 Posts: 72 Location: Croydon

Sorry Chris, you are right......I redirect my post to SCUFFA.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 7:06 pm

Nice flies chaps.
Skuffa...thin out your bucktail a bit by holding it at the tips and stripping out the shorter and broken fibres.
Wighty....Post me some of those flies please
Cheers
Simon

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 8:49 pm

He hey, nice one chaps... Tom I'm quite new to this but had been told to experiment with colours hence the fly having a white back instead of belly.. I understand the white is usually used for the belly.. it does ride well in the water with the white as the back but doesn't dive as much without dumbell eyes.. Kind of what i wanted for a local venue..
Simon thanks for the advice, I've got a little brush for the job and i'll pay more attention next time.... Only got hold of bucktail a week ago but really enjoying playing around with it... Simon do you tie or just nick whitefishes?? big grin

lucky you!!
heres another for by the chain ferry i hope:) happy

I really gotta catch somethin!!!!
Cheers James

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:09 pm

By the way got a bag of new material today..
Some more bucktail, dna fibres and some body braid.. Looking forward to play with that!!
Also some Pulse wing??? Chartreuse and yellow??? Absolutely no idea?? does anyone have any suggestions to put it to use????
cheers James

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 6:39 am

Hi,
Yep i tie my own Skuffa but Wighty will post some anyway....hes good like that.
With regards to pulse wing...no ideas really just look at other stuff and search tinternet.
Cheers
PS www.uksaltwaterflies.com

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 4:18 pm

is chris our new outlet for laziness in fly tying devil

mick.