Flyfishing, flytying and hooks

Blue Highlander?

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Tag: Lagartun French Tinsel
Tail: Golden Pheasant, Red Guinea
Butt: Black Ostrich:
Body: Lagartun French Silk Floss Marigold Yellow, UNI-Floss Doc. Blue,
Rib: Lagartun French Tinsel
Body Hackle: Veniard Chinese Cock Cape Doctor Blue
Wing: Yellow/Brown/Blue colored Fox
Hackle: Veniard Chinese Cock Cape Doctor Blue
Sides: JC
Cone: FutureFly Drainer Disc 8mm Silver

So: I took the starting point of the green highlander from the other day and just exchanged the green part with blue materials. I don’t know if something like a blue highlander exists, but this was a experiment to see how the colors comes together with blue instead of green ( will try different colors in the near future )

The fly itself came out quite good but this is a massive piece of fly! I will try to cut it down to half the size and keep the colors and general design because I do think that the blue/red combination will work very well

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Tiny: Spent Caenis #30

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Hook: TMC 518 #30
Thread: UNI Trico 17/0
Rib: Sheer 14/0
Wing: Wapsi Sparkle Organza
Thorax: Fly-Rite Extra Fine Poly Rust

Tying up for a caenis swap with a spent #30 – trying to incorporate  tail, rib, wing and dubbing on a hook this small is a challenge that you should undertake from time to time. This will really get your thread-control skills up a couple of levels

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Green Highlander

dryfly.me.2014.03.07.tube_green_highlanderI haven’t specified much patterns on this blog when it comes to pattern names on tube( this has to do with the fact that I’m learning techniques and trying out new material), but from now I’ll start to do some common patterns. The Green Highlander is one pattern that I’ve looked at for a long time and have wanted to do, and now I finally find myself confident in technique (and I have the material to do it).

I really like the green and yellow play in color and I think this will be a favorite when I hit the river this summer!

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Never only tie just one of each:

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Green & Orange tube

dryfly.me.2014.03.05.tube_green_orangeGot a really good deal on a large lot of various hair the other day (more about that later), so I had to test out a couple of new colors. The green/orange combination is something that really works, and the green templedog was very nicely done.

I see that there are a lot of tubes beeing published here lately, not very many of them are published after a set pattern, but rather things that I have found inspiration on from facebook or other places.  Many of these are all about techniques for me: trying to get the hackle right, setting the JC correctly on the side or getting that drop-form on the wing to sit just right. This is what I set out with this blog for in the first place: teaching myself lots of techniques and different patterns and styles. So I hope you can indulge me with some freestyles every now and then and see how the technique is progressing.