By Whiskey & Windknots.
Materials list:
Hook: Firehole 718 Size 10
Body Top – Chocolate and Cream 2mm Craft Foam glued together
Body: Bottom – 2mm Tan Craft Foam
Wing: Tan EP or Fish Fibers
Head: 2mm Craft Foam – Chocolate for top, Tan for Bottom
Legs: Medium Round Rubber Legs – Red
Thread: UTC 140 – Brown
From Paul Monaghan:
“A daft name for a very easy baitfish pattern using two materials and forming the profile with a dubbing loop. You can tie this quick pattern for any predatory fresh/saltwater fish, not limited to bass, trout, perch, zander.”
Materials list:
Hook: Ahrex NS172 Curved Gammarus size 6
Thread: Veevus GSP 100D white
Tail and body: Hedron MicroLon grey and Polar Flashabou silver
Eyes: Deercreek Volcano eyes 6mm
Finish: Deecreek Fine Flex UV resin
Filed under Streamers
Brian Wise ties Nacho Heredero’s Brother-In-Law.
Materials list:
Hook: Ahrex Trout Predator 2/0
Tail: Bucktail
Body: Steve Farrar’s Flash Blend
Head: Ripple Ice Fiber
Eyes: Flymen Dragon Eyes
Filed under Brian Wise, Streamers
Fishing the Slow Jig Clouser is the video below.
From Gunnar:
“The Slow Jig Clouser is simply that – a light weight, BULKhead over Lead Eyes, jigging streamer designed for Wade Fishing and Floating Line presentations. Because of the supple weight, the fly slips under quickly and can be animated erratically, while fluttering and dropping slowly on the pause. Can be fished on a 5wt and up, recommend fished with a 7ft leader of 20lb and 12lb split evenly and finished with a non-slip loop knot for extra freedom at the hook eye. AND yes, the hook is designed to ride hook point down – which is my preference – as the light weight nature of the fly is intended to keep it higher in the water column….not dredged or jigged near the bottom.”
From Gunnar:
“In this video, I hike into a Northern Minnesota Smallmouth Stream to showcase a few new ties: the Slow Jig Clouser and Firefly 2.0, while giving you guys 3 simple tips to make your next wade fishing trip more productive, and put more fish in the net. “
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Filed under Fly Fishing, Smallmouth, Streamers
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Materials list:
Hook – Firehole Outdoors 718
Thread – Uni 6/0 Black
Main Body – Thin Fly Foam 2mm Tan & Black
Underbody Abdomen – Cactus Chenille Medium Pink
Underbody Thorax – Ice Dub Red
Legs – Round Rubber Black
Flash – Krystal Flash Red
High Vis Spot – McFlylon Polypost Red
Wing – Bleached Elk Hair
Keough Tyer’s Grade Black
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Filed under Foam
From Jay Nicholas:
“This video features a conversation with my friend Rob Perkin as he ties one of his Intruder flies – this one emphasizing purple and pink. The video is rather long and rambling but if you have it running in the background while you are tying flies there may be some fun conversation and discussion of alternative thoughts regarding tying steelhead Ingruders. JN”
NOTE: Actually, I completely agree with this. There is talking going on, but you can learn a lot by listening to conversation like this while tying. Also, this is a sweet Intruder style fly he ties in this video, so it is worth the watch and listen.
-Paul
tied by Son Tao
Son Tao tied up this super slick Stimulator using FrankenDUB Nymph Dubbing for the body.
Son had this to say about buggy bodies on Stimulators.
“Buggy bodies trap more air bubbles to help floatation. I normally forego the buggy bodies and use heavy hackle wraps instead.”
However, he decided to use FrankenDUB on this body and I think it came out looking awesome! Here is what Son recommends when using this buggy dubbing on a Stimi.
“I used the split thread method to dub it. That way, I got the dubbing spun nice and tight. Brushed it out and then trimmed.”
Materials list:
Hook: Ahrex 531
Tail and Wing: Elk
Underwing: Midge crystal flash
Body: Frankenfly Nymph Dubbing (dark olive) blended with SLF. With long fibers trimmed
Body hackle: Whiting grizzly variant
Thorax: Whiting cree
Filed under Dry Fly, Trout flies
I’m super excited to post this! It’s so awesome to have one of my flies featured in a Tightline Productions video made by Tim Flagler. Tim walks you through how to tie my Bluegill Belly Bean in this fly tying video. I hope you enjoy it!
-Paul
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Filed under Bluegill, FrankenDUB, FrankenFly
