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The only consolation for me in this is that I have 24 Mayflies to tie (12 dry, 12 wet) for a swap before the end of the month on our side so one of these when they are done will have to do. I hate tying Mayflies!
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Prior to buying a Peak last year I had always been a C clamp tyer, the Peak came with both C clamp and pedestal but I have used it solely on the pedestal as it is stable and can be moved out of the way without any hassle.
Tying off a pedestal vice gives you much more freedom as you can move the vice to any position to aid the tying.
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The cheek on our buzzers represents the wing case and haemoglobin as the fly prepares to emerge from the pupa. Many of the type used here do not look anything like the real thing but work very well. There are a multitude of patterns for these but if you have a selection in black, olive and red you can cover most eventualities. The most common used is the epoxy buzzer as shown by your tying, this sinks well and has good taking prospects.
Nice work with them all, BTW!
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There are only two types of people in this world, those who are Scottish and those who wish they were Scottish!
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I have this image of LS and a shopping trolley stuffed full of tying gear!
Once you start you cannot stop. It is addictive and no matter how much you have you always want more. Maybe there is some form of rehab for those who's lives have been ruined by fly tying!
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Instead of the oil method why not try floss pulled through the tubing? If you use clear tubing then you can have any colour you want in the middle, this will give you that translucent look to the body. If you want to use a coloured tubing go for the most translucent colour you can find and contrast it with the floss inside.
I think I have some clear somewhere, I will dig it out and make a demo for this method later today.
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LS,
you already know how to make an Apps on Steroids, anything else is just a variation in colour.
The simplest bloodworm imitation is the famous "Datsun Fly" - a bare hook with some Datsun red paint on the shank, nothing any simpler than that exists.
Another simple bloodworm imitation is just a few strands of red flexifloss tied to the hook shank and held in place with super glue.
Next, a piece of red chenille tied onto the hook with red thread and the ends of the chenille left long to wriggle.
Any red wool, floss, thread, tubing, latex, wire or anything of that ilk will make simple bloodworms.
There is no "black art" associated with the humble bloodworm, whatever takes your fancy or is at hand will do the job.
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Why do I tie flies?
One reason is not to save money as this is impossible when you start collecting and hoarding materials, the last month has been about 2 - 300 Euros on materials so there is no saving money there!
Another reason is if you want standard, you can buy standard but if you want the fly to be something radical and unique then the only way to get that fly is to tie it yourself as you know exactly what it needs to look like.
I prefer out of the box thinking to get the right solution instead of sticking to traditionals patterns and methods, if there is something that you can use that serves the purpose then use it, Anti-Static Film, rubber gloves, sequins, beads, off hook bodies and that is just for starters!
The real satisfaction of tying still has to be that feeling of netting a fish on something you created yourself instead of coming from some mass production shed in Kenya.
The fly you tie does not have to be some picture perfect, every barbule standing to attention, pea in a pod item but what gives you the satisfaction at the end of it's creation. We can all copy things but the genius is in inventing things to do the job or approach the subject from a different direction and get a result!
TLs and happy tying to you all!
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Here is an easy little number for you grub fans.
Cut a strip of latex glove about 3mm wide and secure to the hook, run your dubbing on the hook to the thorax point and follow with the latex strip easing off the tension as you wind it up the shank. Secure and cut off excess and dub on the thorax and finish off the grub. Any dubbing will do for this as it covers a lot of those wriggly fellers in one design.
Latex works better than the other materials for this one.
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is that a softer hackle?
Looks like a nice emerger type pattern
P - just a straight forwards cock hackle = Metz #2 Grizzle
The partially dressed hook idea came from a mate who ties midges half hook style on size 26s!
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This came about when I overdressed the winging hackle on a HE Para and when I looked at it I thought if there was less body then it might be useful.
A few experiments at the vice and this is the simple outcome from a mistake. Because it has such a heavy wound hackle it is gong to sit well on the surface and present a twinkling abdomen to the fish. Also, being heavy hackled it will support a reasonable sized nymph or buzzer below it. Feel free to alter colouration to suit yourself and environment.
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Hook - Partridge15BNX - Klinkhamer Extreme size 14
Thread - 140 denier UTC Olive
Abdomen - Hareline Ice Dub - Peacock Black
Hackle - one of the sootier coloured hackles from a Grizzly saddle - the type where the colour distinction is fuzzy.
Tie the thread about 5mm down from the eye, dub on your Ice Dub. Use a hackle with fibres just slightly longer than the hook gape and give this 4 or 5 turns to bush it up. Whip and varnish the head, allow to dry and then head to the nearest still water!
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Fly swaps only work if the participants follow the guidelines, saying that the swap I ran would have been a little smoother if they had actually read the bloody guidelines! I Emailed and posted them for all participants and there were a few that seemed to think that they were exempt from following them. Luckily the swap went off well and was amusing to say the least.
One good thing about swaps is that you will get patterns that you normally never tie. I try to keep the originals for reference but some of them are just to good to look at and get fished to bits!
Anyone involved in a swap with me is sure to get something out of the ordinary as I hate convention.
TLs
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oh awesome. i gather you have the 90 sec flies back from arkle?
Not back yet but they are currently in the post as arkle sent them out on Tuesday.
Patience, lassie, patience and all will be worthwhile.
BTW, what is the smallest size that you tie too?
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Don,
excellent post dispelling the mysteries of rod weighting!
I bought a rod with the makers recommendation of 5/6 so I bought a 6 weight floater thinking that this would match the rod - no way! Went up to a 7 weight and found that this loaded the rod perfectly for me. As you say, try before you buy and avoid disappointment.
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Midge or Buzzer fishing as we know it on our side of the pond is an art form of it's own.
There are various methods that you can use depending on the type of midge you fish. To us a midge is the adult, winged Chronomid, to you it is the pre-=hatch pupal stage, what we call a Buzzer. We will assume that you want to fish the pre-adult form so here are a few methods that you can use to maximise this major food source.
Fishing under a bung - this allows you to preset the depth that you want your buzzer to hang and you can fish several off droppers at varying depths to find fish.
Fishing under a dry - we use this method during a hatch because if the fish is rising to the hatching insect quite often it will turn on the sunken nymph if it ignores the dry adult.
Fishing off a floating line - this method is similar to the above but you are relying on feeling the take rather than watching for the visual indication of tmovement of the bung or dry.
Fishing the buzzer New Zealand style incorporates the use of a dry fly as an indicator and a single buzzer hanging anything from 6" to 8 feet tied from the bend of the dry's hook.
If you want to get a buzzer down quickly and have indication the the bung method is the best as it will stay afloat even with a tungsten headed version on the point .
If you want to fish on the surface then use a suspender buzzer where the head will sit in or above the surface film. You can also rig this to fish with another buzzer on the point below it
This is just a quick answer to the question and I hope that it gives you some idea.
TLs
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IF you want to blame anyone for Valentine's day then blame the Catholic church. This was originally a Greek festival when on that day the priests would pair up couples for a years sexual congress. This did not sit well with the latter religion and it was banned until that jerk Valentine came along and changed it - served him bloody well right as he was executed by his church later on.
So why waste money on one certain day when you can probably save a bundle by taking him or her out some other time and not get ripped off by the commercialisation that surrounds it now.
If it is for couples then why is it biased 99% in favour of the female?
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OOOOOOO!!!!! I HAVE UV FRITZ!!!
I CAN MAKE THESE!!!!
I know you have!
This is standard straggle UV from Veniards, the mini dumbbells you can pick up in most places, these ones are only 2.5mm diameter and 6mm overall length. Silver is the best for this lure.
I am going to send you some stuff along with your prize, flies, lures etc that you can have fun with.
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These are a couple of the River Tweed where I used to stay back in Scotland during one of the slightly bigger floods.
Normally the river runs about 10 ft deep at this point but the rain took it 12 ft over the mark.
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These are a few variations that I tied up for winter Rainbows using Black UV Straggle Fritz on the abdomen, mini dumbbell eyes with a coat of glass paint on the ends and tied on a #14 Partridge Big Mouth Nymph hook. Tailing on most is marabou but I have a couple with black bear hair as well.
This hook makes an absurdity of sizing as it appears to look like a short shanked #8!
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Whatcha mean we have weird materials?
You guys and your neighbours have some of the weirdest named stuff around, "Glow in the Dark Mobile Motion" springs to mind right away!
For the Pearly Ice yarn you could get away with using Pearl Ice Dub wound tightly or some white/pearl Antron or Zelon with some Glister dubbed onto it.
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Nice flies, both of them and a nice vice too, 126barnes!
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I thought after all the 'absurdities' that I have helped promote recently in the Lurid Lure Swap that it was time to get back to basics so here is a nearly 'real' fly!
Hook - Captain Hamilton International MW size 12
Thread - Olive UTC
Shuck - Ginger Z- lon
Abdomen - 60% Olive, 20%Fiery Brown and 20% Machair Claret seal's fur
Legs - either Chocolate Brown Hen or Brown Partridge hackle
Wing - 2 Natural Dark Brown CDC plumes
When tying in the Z-lon - straggle the lengths a bit to give a better appearance to the shuck as a straight cut look does not do the business. Tie the CDC forwards and then pull back and secure with a couple of turns of thread before finishing.
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This link takes you to a Scottish Borderer's pattern page and shows a very similar 'fly' - LEON GUTHRIE - quite a few innovative ideas going on there, well away from ROM thinking.
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Send them to Tupps, he ties half bodied flies on size 26! Failing that, Hans Weilenmann recently showed me a size 32 fully dressed dry fly. HTF did he see to do that? I thought it was a speck of dirt in the ziploc baggie!
Size 20 and then I need the Huddle telescope to see it!
Let's Play A Little Game
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A greedy little fecker judging by the size of the fly!