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No point in entering now! It is all over with Clyde's Rudolph Mouse! The winner without a doubt unless I can think of something as equally good!

I voted on Cheeler's wet as it has that you know it will catch look about it. Plenty of motion available from the softish hackle and a nice nymphy look when wet as well. IMO> When looking at wet flies of the types submitted it is easy to make a definition on them as the larger Salmon types were originally designed to show off the tyers ability and also the fact that he could obtain all of those rare and obscure feathers that were only available to the rich that made salmon fishing a sport of the Landed Gentry. When design in salmon flies changed from using endangered feathered species and into the use of the likes of calf tail and buck tail that is when tying opened up to new ideas. Standard wets as used for trout fishing relied more on mimicry rather than ostentation and therefore were well within the reach of the 'common man' as most trout wet designs came from observation rather than imagination and gave us a wealth of patterns to choose from.

Just made the deadline! I screwed up the White Balance! Hook - Kamasan Low Water Salmon single size 6 Thread - Black UTC 140 Denier Tail - Matched Dyed Red Goose Slips - Red Ibis If you have it! Ribs - Oval Silver and two strands of Dyed Green Peacock Herl Body - Medium Silver Mylar Beard - Black Hen Wing - Peacock Sword - matched from two opposing swords Wing Edges - Paired Red Dyed Goose Slips

You guys might like to try this out for your bigger lake trout. It is based on the Alexandra, a fly that was banned for use on several waters in the UK when it was popular due to it's taking capabilities. It gives the impression of a minnow or bait fish and in this size should prove attractive to your native trout. Hook - Kamasan Low Water Salmon single size 6 Thread - Black UTC 140 Denier Tail - Matched Dyed Red Goose Slips - Red Ibis If you have it! Ribs - Oval Silver and two strands of Dyed Green Peacock Herl Body - Medium Silver Mylar Beard - Black Hen Wing - Peacock Sword - matched from two opposing swords Wing Edges - Paired Red Dyed Goose Slips

Errrrr? Hook: sz 10-14 Thread: black Body: Cactus Chenille Large black. Black/Orange Sheet Foam Must be the Christmas rush confusion setting in LS!

This link will take you to a quick knock up for a predator type fly or for some of your more aggressive trout that you have in Canada. Predator / Salty Type Fly

This might come in handy to you guys and gals that make all those big predator type flies and use a lot of holographic eyes. The Eyes Have It Part 2

Nice work, Dennis. One day I will get around to those mythical salmon flies!

Would it not then be a Cone Head Bloom's Leech? Nice pattern that would transform to a Damsel with just a colour change. Excellent fish too!

What did Santa do with Rudolph after Mrs Claus bought him a Skidoo? Had Roast Reindeer of course! (drawn by a friend of mine and I used it for Christmas cards one year)

Due to the photo limitations on here I will just post the link and a teaser photo until I can get the time to transfer it all over. A Pig's Ear Shrimp

There is a tip I got for reducing the bulk at the head before tying in and whipping off. Cut the fibres at 45 degree slope back from the eye, position for tying in and wrap a couple of thread loops over to hold in place, using liquid, not gel, super glue put a small drop on the fibre slope and then whip finish. The liquid super glue will move by capillary action between the fibres and when you whip this down you will get a very secure head with little thread build up allowing you to make a hard shiny varnish finish with several layers of varnish to get that bead like look. Do not use a large drop of the glue, just enough to wet the ends of the fibres/hairs/materials.

LS, a quick look and here is the rough tie! Hook - any decent scud or shrimp hook Underbody possibly of shaped lead or thread build up but I would go with some lead at least to get it down Ostrich herl - top quality - dense fibre stuff Shell back - either the weave method in the thread or thin skin coloured with permanent markers and ribbed over with fine wire before the application of epoxy coat, Feelers - look to be Partridge hackle and the eyes are melted mono with black epoxy enamel on the outside edge So, what are you waiting for? Get them tied up!

Not knowing what they are, I haven't! I am using Partridge Klinkhamer Extremes now as there is a lot more room for experimenting on, for a size 14 it is massive!

As a few of you might know, I have had a few madcap ideas in the past and this is a recurring one that is getting nearer to the finalised article every time I revisit it. I have wanted to design a true emerger where we have a shuck in the subsurface and a fly emerging on the surface. Here I have managed to get a little bit closer with the idea albeit a little scruffy and inconsistent. I have plans for a small jig for creating the fly part and the temporary one that I used for this proves that the idea works and can be viable. So watch this space! This effort does not give the result that I wanted but has a more balanced look about it. I should have left more of a gap between the shuck part and the fly part but, Hey! Rome was not built in a day! Apologies for the colour cast as I could not be arsed to set the white balance! Looking at this and comparing it with the video of a hatching insect that gave me the idea still leaves a little to be desired but once the jig is up and running I can replicate the fly part a lot easier than the current method allows. Well, I have been back at this again and it is getting to have the look that I am after now, just a few more tweaks and it should be there. Going to give this and his mates a swim sometime this week. Taking another look at this and I can see what is needed to get what I want in it. If I double up the legs at the thorax area then it will seem more natural, the mixture of glister and dark dun spectrablend seems to give a better appearance to the shuck portion of the fly. Moving the emergence point further up the hook shank should make it look the part. OK, back to the drawing board, or in this case, back to the jig.

What material did you use in those flies? Looks like marabou. They look like they would do for pike as well and in a smaller size for the fry bashers.

This is inspired by the 'Pinkie' from firefly. Different method but should catch a Grayling or two for Tango! Materials - Hook - Fulling Mill Super Grub size 12 Thread - UTC Fluo Pink 140 denier Abdomen 1 - fine lead wire Abdomen 2 - White Ostrich Herl Carapace - Thin Skin rubbed with Spice Coloured Marker Rib - Bayer Concept 2000 7lb mono (try and find this stuff now!) First, prepare your hook with a covering of thread Wind on enough fine lead wire to give the weight you want to the fly Overwind this with the thread and varnish for security Apologies for blurring Catch in the ribbing mono and the Thin Skin after making a tapered point on it Next catch in your Ostrich herl Wind on the herl to about the middle of the hook and then form a hot spot with the thread Complete winding the herl to the head and secure with thread I give the inside of the Thin Skin a wipe with the broad end of a Spice coloured Promarker to copy the 'natural' before pulling it over the body of the fly. Once you have secured the Thin Skin and trimmed it then wind your mono rib up the body without trapping the herl and secure with thread. Varnish the head and then the Pinkie, Shrimp, Fly is complete.

Christmas is a pain in the butt! People overspend on everything and spend the rest of the year paying it off, stuff themselves stupid, get loaded and fall out. Who wants a pair of hand knitted socks by your granny these days? Apart from that gripe, Santa better get his ass in gear and deliver a new Greys GRXi waist length fishing waistcoat, a pair of sock foot breathables, compound sole wading boots, 2 Greenheart 6 weight reels, 6 Metz saddles and some hooks! Best memories of Christmas were of my daughter making the Christmas day trifle and experimenting with food dyes to 'jazz' it up, the result was something that even Shrek would be put off by with the colour but the taste was fantastic due to the 1/4 bottle of brandy that she tipped into it!

DO NOT under any circumstances use WD40 on fly lines unless you want to go buy new ones. It contains a solvent that breaks down the coating and ruins your line!

Google these guys for assistance - Nils Eriksson and Gunnar Johnson. They are Swedish if that helps you any better!

Ooops! Apologies Flytier. I missed this post! You really picked a difficult hook for this pattern, if you are using a tan thread then I will add a rib of fine silver wire. Your call LS.

S'okay, I have looked them up and I think that I can do a half decent job of tying them.

I am putting myself out on a limb here but I will attempt the following for this Copper John Hare Sculpin Serendipity Caddis Nymph Marabou Dace When do you need these in for? I need to allow 10 days for postage from here to reach you and getting near Christmas might mean a delay so I will get them off as quickly as possible in the next week.

There is a variation of the PTN I use, instead of the seal's fur, substitute a yellow seed bead and it works just as well allowing the nymph to fish deeper without the addition of lead wire.

You need to get out more! Streamers and Leeches indeed! Get tying more damsels for spring along with PTNs for sub-surface and then onto the Griffiths and GRHE Paras for the surface work.