Flyfishing, flytying and hooks

No Hackle CDC Quill Body

2013.12.06.no_hackle_quill_1Hook: Mustad 94840 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 Brown
Tail: Hareline Mayfly Tail White
Body: Polishquills  Stripped Peacock Orange
Thorax: Wapsi Squirrel Spikey Dubbing
Wing: 2xCDC White

The stripped peacock eye makes for a very good segmented body, here I have tied it on a no-hackle CDC with a 94840 from Mustad. You can of course strip the feather  yourself and color them the way you want, but the quality you get from polishquills.com is great and it saves a lot of time!

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View from above: the split tail can be a bit tricky to get the first time you try it, but once you get the hang of it it should be easy to do. Here I have used the thin mayfly tail from Hareline, but you can (and I often do) use any hackle/feather to form a tail.

2013.12.06.no_hackle_quill_2A family picture:

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First Tube

dryfly.me.2013.12.02.first_tube Wing: Sunburst yellow Foxtail, Orange Foxtail, Red Arctic Fox, Peacock
Neck: black Foxtail underhair
Cone: Eumertube

Another chapter in me doing things I really have no idea on how to do: I bought some foxtail and templedog pieces a little while ago to tie up some tube flies (and for large streamers), and I finally sat down and created my first ones. It took a couple of tries to get a feel for this way of creating flies, but I’m warming up to the idea. I will be testing these in saltwater first to see how they actually behave (have never fished with tube before).

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One without the neck:
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Red Arctic Fox Streamer

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Hook: Dai-Riki 899 #1/0
Thread: UNI 6/0 Black
Tag: UNI-French, UNI Floss Green
Butt: Black ostrich herl
Body:UNI Floss Green, UTC Mylar Tinsel, UNI-French
Wing: Red Arctic Fox 3xl, Blue & Green Tempel Dog, peacock
Throat: Red Arctic Fox 3xl, peacock
Head: Black Ostrich Herl

Got myself some packages of fox and tempel dog to experiment with streamers and tube flies. No particular pattern I’ve gone after, but rather see how these materials come together