Flyfishing, flytying and hooks

Black Ghost Marabou color variations

kvitre.no.2014.02.17.black_ghost_pinkHook: Allen S401 #6
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tail: Marabou in different color variations
Body: Black Floss, UNI-Mylar #10
Wing: White Marabou
Throat: Marabou in different color variations

I follow streamers365.com on planet.dryfly.me, and the other day a list of black ghost marabou in different color variations came up, so: I had to tie up some variations on this one to see how it is put together. The marabou should give a lot of movement in the water and the silver ribbed body can’t go wrong. Looking forward to test this in a river across a pool late at night.

Yellow variant:

kvitre.no.2014.02.17.black_ghost_yellowGreen variant:

kvitre.no.2014.02.17.black_ghost_greenAll together on some cork I have practiced gluing together for my rod project

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52 weeks: 7 – Dots

kvitre.no.2014-7.dotsThis week I had a plan of doing something with guinea fowl feathers that have great dots, but then I found this pattern on facebook and though: I’ll give it a go. This was a tricky one, I haven’t done much of classic salmon flies before and the real problem came when I was supposed to mount golden pheasant topping and I realised that I didn’t have any that matched ( I only have one head, and it is picked clean of the good ones….), so: I had to improvise on the topping by putting some peacock on as topping. That ruined part of the flow of this pattern, so I’ll get some new golden pheasant next time I’m in the shop.

The fly was tied on a Dai-Riki 899 #1/0

 

Red-tag wet

dryfly.me.2014.02.15.wet_fliesHook: Dai-riki 305 #12
Thread: UNI 8/0
Tag: UNI-Floss Red
Tail: Golden Pheasant topping
Body: Hends Superfine, UTC Ultra Wire Silver
Wing: Whiting Rooster Black, Veniard Chinese Cock Doctor Blue

Mixing up the styles a little bit every week is good for practice: today it was a classic wet-fly that I’ll tie up a larger batch of one of these days – might mix up the tag color a bit, but the base pattern here is easy to get started on and works very well for trout and grayling.

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Small tubes on double hook

dryfly.me.2014.02.13.double_allThe other day was small tubes for treble hook, today are some hair-wing for double hook that I tied up the same night. These should work good for salmon, but also (especially the red-tag) on seatrout and browntrout. I like the redtag the best in terms of colors and execution, and should have some of those tied up for the trout season.

Red-tag:

dryfly.me.2014.02.13.double_redOrange & Blue:

dryfly.me.2014.02.13.double_blue_orangeGreen & Black:

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Small tubes on treble hooks

dryfly.me.2014.02.11.treble_allI have tied a lot of big hair-winged tube the last two months, but salmon (or trout for that matter) isn’t always interested in the big juicy flies! So today was a tie-up-small-tubes-for-treble-hook day and I got some in different color variations to see how they come together. All flies are done with Arctic Fox and/or temple dog.

Lime & Black:

dryfly.me.2014.02.11.treble_limeBlue & Black:

dryfly.me.2014.02.11.treble_blueOrange & Black

dryfly.me.2014.02.11.treble_orangeBlue & Black with flash on a red tube:

dryfly.me.2014.02.11.treble_blue_blackYellow & Black with a experiment on the head:

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