The summer is coming to a end soon, but I’m heading out to a river this weekend, so I got myself some Goat yesterday to tie up some sunray shadows. The brown and white are goat while the black overwing is templedog. This is the first time I have tried to tie anything with Goat, but the material feels very good and should make a lot of movement in this fly.

Follow up on tube with a pattern that I have done on a double hook before: the blue/green combination of this makes it a great combination for seatrout. The long hackle gives it a flowing movement in the water that will trigger a bite

A purple/black test:

The green/blue double that the above tube is tied after:

Another one where I’m just testing out the different colors on a rather large tube.

I do a lot of this: just sit down and try to see how things come together, some times it is based on patterns, other times it is just freestyle based on what I have in front of me. These two came out of one of those freestyle sessions where I just played with materials to see how they fit together.