A couple of bright orange tube shrimps today: trying to keep them slim and lightly dressed, will try them out in the sea between christmas and new years to see how they behave. Still on a experiment phase when it comes to tubes: tying up different things to see how material and composition ends up.
Some sunday pictures: we headed up to a lake not far from Oslo (40 minutes metro/bus, then 1 hour on a track through the forest). The winter has set in (although late this year) and we waded through snow and ice to get up there, the fog was really thick at times but it made for a really good atmosphere once we got up to the lake.
We try to brew fresh coffee on our trips, snow and fog shouldn’t be a hinder!
The fog created this spectacular light
Snow closeup, should have brought with me the macro lens to get this out better
A small trout stream where I bring my #1 rod during summer to get a quick fishing trip done after work
Got some really long Templedog patches the other day and with the one above here I finally got it slim enough: one thing I have learned the hard way the last couple of weeks is that I add way too much hair when I start on the underwing, ending up with a fly that is too big. This one also got a nice split yellow/black body as you can see in the picture below (the tinsel isn’t aligned properly though…)
Looking at the tube flies I have created the last weeks I also see that I tend to make massively large flies! So: I will try to create some smaller tubes to learn to control that aspect of tying on a tube as well: big fly is not equal to big fish!
I have fished with red tag many times after trout & grayling, so I don’t see why a scaled up tube-version shouldn’t work on salmon! Trying to keep it as simple as I can, I was tempted to add a red collar, but resisted and added two pieces of flash instead to match the silver wrapping in the body.
Hook: TMC 2457 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 green
Body: Sheer 14/0 Green, UTC ultra wire gold
Thorax: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Dark Olive
Wing: CDC
I get a lot of inspiration following various forums, facebook, planet.dryfly.me and other places. The other day Hammer Creek Fly Fishing posted a video on G+ with his version of the spring creek midge. I have had many bead colors in some jars for a time that I haven’t tied anything with, so I tied up a green variant with different bead colors to see how they turned out. The beads I bought at a craft store for next-to-nothing ( I always pop into the craft shops to see if I can find anything to tie with ), and I should have a lifetime supply available.
These midges are a great pattern to start out with, and once you get the hang of it you can produce a large number very quickly!
Black bead:
Red bead:
Orange/Brown bead:
Yellow Bead:
All colors gathered:
I have one jar for each color of the ones you see in this post:
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