52 weeks: 6 – something old

Posted on 9 February, 20149 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide

Tail: Golden Pheasant Topping
Butt: Black Ostrich Herl
Body: UNI-Floss Dark Rust, Lagartun Varnished French Tinsel Oval
Hackle: Veniard Chinese Cock Cape Doctor Blue
Wing: Wapsi Turkey Quill, Peacock
Cheek: Golden Pheasant

For this weeks “Something Old” I tried to find something about the history of the tube fly (since I have been tying a lot of it lately), I found this article talking about the origin of the tube and Mr. Alexander Wanless who in “The Angler And The Thread Line” from 1932 describes this fly (see the plate on the article referenced). Well: not much of description, rather a picture of it, so I set out with what I had in my box of material (that resembled) and came up with this one.

Together with the main materials:

For this weeks photo challenge: a old memorial coin that I have inherited

White Rabbit Zonker on tube

Posted on 9 February, 20147 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide tube zonker

With the recent adventure in tube and zonkers I had to end up with this eventually: a white rabbit zonker from Wapsi with different hackle color. The material should flow really nice in the water, but I have no experience with something like this in a river. There will be a lot of testing this summer, that’s for sure!

Micro Zonker Tubes again

Posted on 7 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide green tube zonker

Tied up some more of the micro zonker tubes that I did the other day. The pattern is great and fairly easy to do, the only thing I changed this time was to add JC to the sides of it.

In hand for scale:

Bombers in different colors

Posted on 6 February, 20144 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide

I have had some patches of deer in different colors around for a long time, and with the recent adventure into salmon bombers on tube I had to tie up a few in different combinations!

Salmon Bomber

Posted on 3 February, 20141 February, 2014 by Håvard Eide deer hareline

Tail: Hareline Para Post Wing White
Body: Hareline Premium Deer, Genetic Cock Saddle Green Highlander, Whiting Bronze brown

I was browsing youtube today and I watched a couple of videos involving salmon taking bombers in the surface. So: since this blog is all about testing out new things I had to test this out. The first attempt below was on a Dairiki 899 #1/0 and the deer hair wasn’t all that good, but I tried again on a tube (to see how that works out), and the above fly was much better stacked when it came to the deer hair and the hackle was more even.

In smaller variants this will be great for trout in rivers where you need to attract a lot of attention, so, will tie up some in smalleer (#6/#8) to bring along this summer when troutseason is starting again.

52 weeks: 6 – something old

White Rabbit Zonker on tube

Micro Zonker Tubes again

Bombers in different colors

Salmon Bomber

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