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3 tube flies with different hackle color

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_togetherTail: Arctic Fox
Body: UNI Floss Green, Lagartun French Tinsel rib
Wing: Arctic Fox Red, Templedog Black
Hackle: Wapsi Strung Schlappen in different colors

Spent some time with different hackle colors on the same base pattern to see how they turn out on the fly. The long hackle on the Wapsi packages is good for these sized tubes, but I really should get some skins with different length to be able to adjust to the pattern instead of letting the hackle dictate the size of the fly.

The red hackle came out the best together with the rest of the body:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_redRed from the front:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_red_frontOlive hackle, this made for a more trigger color:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_greenOlive front:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_green_frontOrange hackle, here I didn’t lay the hackle the correct way, so it points up and out instead of following the curve of the fly:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_orangeOrange front:

dryfly.me.2014.01.15.red_tag_tube_colors_orange_front

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.