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Testing out new flies

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAIt is january, but the weather is more like early April: 7 degrees and sun before I went out. Have tied a lot of new flies lately, and mainly tubes, that I needed to see how would work when they were fished. The day was beautiful with so many people on the beach: even some barbecue going on (unheard of at this time of year), and the weather changed into a cloudy afternoon.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAWe did see 2-3 fish up in the surface, but nothing would take the fly.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERASome new flies was tested and I got some input on what I need to do – one thing I needed the most was to add a bit of weight to the big hair-winged tube flies, those just didn’t fly right on my #6 rod

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As mentioned: nothing would take, but I did find some potential great spots that is close to town!

Tube: Fire Tail

dryfly.me.2014.01.10.tube_fire_tailTail: Foxtail Suburst yellow, Templedog hot orange
Body: UNI Floss, Lagartun french tinsel
Hackle: Spirit River Schlappen Black

This was a freestyle with what I had on my table, but I really like how it came out: the fire in the tail will be a very good attractor for the salmon/seatrout and it will have good movements once it gets in the water. Will create some more of this color combination, and maybe with blue/lime tail as well.

 

Buzzers

dryfly.me.2014.01.07.buzzers5A new style that I haven’t explored much before: buzzers. Got a bottle of Bug Bond today and had to open it up and test out how this works. As you can see on these first attempts the layering and application of bug bond to make it even is not very precise, but another few batches of these and they should turn out ok.

Stripped peacock quill body:

dryfly.me.2014.01.07.buzzers1UTC wire rib:

dryfly.me.2014.01.07.buzzers2UNI Mylar rib:

dryfly.me.2014.01.07.buzzers3A short one with UNI Mylar body

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Renegade

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Hook: Mustad 94840 #18
Thread: Sheer 14/0 White
Tag: UTC Wire silver
Bead: Whiting Brown, peacock herl, Whiting white

Another pattern from “tying small flies” by Ed Engle: Renegade. I chose a silver tag instead of the gold in the original pattern. A interesting pattern that should float nicely in the surface and give a good profile.