A Couple Of Prototypes

[Bigtoad]

I've been on a fly tying binge lately and have been trying out some new ideas (at least for me). I'm not a great tier by any means but I impressed myself with these ones.

 

 

 

This is a stimmie but I thought why not add some sweet legs to these things? Body is fuzzy foam wrapped around. Should I be copyrighting this thing or am I so far behind the times that I think I'm ahead?

 

Does anyone have a favorite adult golden stone imitation that they prefer on the Bow? I love the Chernobyl ant but I'm trying to find some other options for when they want something a bit different.

 

This one is my first attempt at a Trico spinner. I added the post for visibility. Any suggestions?

 

Cheers.

[Tungsten]

Flies look good dude,i like the rubber legs.Rubber goes with every fly.I even tie my caddis with rubber legs.

[Harps]

Hey Bigtoad,

 

It's a good looing fly. The proportions look great!

You'd have to try it to make sure it doesn't sink with all the fuzzy foam. Of course, a sunk stimmie works great too. Don't worry about copyrighting flies... most things have been done (legs on a stimmie is quite common).

 

For a PMD spinner that fly would work (also tie it in a rusty brown colour).

 

For a Trico spinner, go much smaller and thinner. One way to tie is to have 2 black balls of dubbing with the front having spent wings. This imitates a cluster of Tricos. I also tye mine with a dubbing ball in the middle with the wings sticking out the front and back on a larger hook or just a dubbing ball in the center of the shaft and wings sticking out the sides.

 

Ask FlyFishFairWx about a goldenstone imitation... His "Thing from Uranus" has been preforming quite well for the past 2 seasons.

[SteveM]

Flies look good dude,i like the rubber legs.Rubber goes with every fly.I even tie my caddis with rubber legs.

 

Even SJW's?

[admin]

Both nice looking flies. I would maybe switch up the dubbing on the trico to a quill or something synthetic. Looks like you used hare's ear dub on that and it may cause it to take on a bit extra water and sink quicker. Mind you, if you treat it with floatant, it should be cool. The post is a great feature. What size did you tie that trico in?

[Tungsten]

Even SJW's?

Sure something like this but with rubber,never under estimate the power of rubber..LOL

 

[Bigtoad]

Both nice looking flies. I would maybe switch up the dubbing on the trico to a quill or something synthetic. Looks like you used hare's ear dub on that and it may cause it to take on a bit extra water and sink quicker. Mind you, if you treat it with floatant, it should be cool. The post is a great feature. What size did you tie that trico in?

 

I tied it on a mustad 2X size 14. Probably too big for a trico but I wanted to get it right before going smaller. Looks pretty freaking small to me already.

 

Thanks for the input.

[Bigtoad]

Quoting Harps:

"For a Trico spinner, go much smaller and thinner. One way to tie is to have 2 black balls of dubbing with the front having spent wings. This imitates a cluster of Tricos. I also tye mine with a dubbing ball in the middle with the wings sticking out the front and back on a larger hook or just a dubbing ball in the center of the shaft and wings sticking out the sides."

 

What would you suggest for dubbing material? Do you have any picks of the flies?

 

Cheers.

[Harps]

No picts right now, but I'll look later.

There are these:

http://www.midcurrent.com/video/clips/tl_trico.aspx

 

For dubbing on the trico you can use a few things... beaver is good and fine enough for small flies/

I use a synthetic- the SLF superfine dubbing for small dries.

 

Trico:

[flyfishfairwx]

Hey Bigtoad,

 

It's a good looing fly. The proportions look great!

You'd have to try it to make sure it doesn't sink with all the fuzzy foam. Of course, a sunk stimmie works great too. Don't worry about copyrighting flies... most things have been done (legs on a stimmie is quite common).

 

For a PMD spinner that fly would work (also tie it in a rusty brown colour).

 

For a Trico spinner, go much smaller and thinner. One way to tie is to have 2 black balls of dubbing with the front having spent wings. This imitates a cluster of Tricos. I also tye mine with a dubbing ball in the middle with the wings sticking out the front and back on a larger hook or just a dubbing ball in the center of the shaft and wings sticking out the sides.

 

Ask FlyFishFairWx about a goldenstone imitation... His "Thing from Uranus" has been preforming quite well for the past 2 seasons.

 

The TTFU is a Salmon Fly imitation, orange dubbing between brown foam and I found it also works for the Golden stones with a colour change to the dubbing..

 

Thanks for the plug Harps..