Dry stone fly, submerging Caddis

[misfish]

A few more of my ties ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Dry stone fly

 

#16 hook

Olive super thread flat thread

Seal fur dub   or CDC feather  for abdomen and legs

Mallard flank for wind casing

B&W Saddle hackle

Start with dub wrap or CDC feather

Dub

Or CDC

Using hackle pliers, wrap and turn til 3/4 back towards hook eye

1 mallard flank feather for wing case

Remove fluffy stuff leaving a nice stem to pull on .

A few loose wraps on the stem and pull the feather to create the wing casing .

Secure

Add hackle .

1 with CDC

1 Using seal dub

 

 

 

 

Submerging Caddis ( ran out of small beads, so only made 2 ) This one is a bit of work .

#12 caddis hook

Small brass bead

Seal fur dub olive

Pheasant hackle

1 strand of crystal flash for ribbing.

 

 

[misfish]

The heavy weights for the deep fast pools .

.015 lead free

#6 long shank

Brown goose biots

Speck bro/bla thin skin

Olive scud shellback

Black super thread flat 3/0

 

 

[AKRISONER]

dude, i need to go fly fishing with you one day. I have quite literally never fly fished with anyone that knows what the hell they are doing, ive had to learn everything entirely on my own and I know that I am 100% missing a lot of the puzzle pieces when it comes to fly selection and presenting submerged flies in rivers.

These are unreal by the way.

 

Edited April 2, 2020 by AKRISONER

[misfish]

Thanks

 

I am self taught . Just grabbed a fly rod one day and went out . I am no expert trust me , but you tube is my friend .

[misfish]

Wheres that Christopher kid when you need him ? LOL

 

Hope he is doing well .

[Terry]

He is on Facebook 

[misfish]

Thanks

 

Are you a stalker ? LOL

 

Edited April 2, 2020 by misfish

[misfish]

Oh and I put the mallard wing casing wrong . Should of been up, not down . Got to tie new ones now . I guess the ones I have now will be sleeping, the new ones,ready to fly . LOL

Edited April 2, 2020 by misfish

[Garnet]

I tie balanced fly's for float fishing. My fun is taking idea and developing something new.

The funny things is when I was happy to get thread feathers on a hook they still worked.

Most of my early attempts looked like a horse walked on them and a dog pooped them out still worked.  

[AKRISONER]

21 hours ago, misfish said:

Thanks

 

I am self taught . Just grabbed a fly rod one day and went out . I am no expert trust me , but you tube is my friend .

Too much of fly fishing content is from guys in mountains that have big roaring rivers with a kilometer of space to false cast. Or even worse..spey lol

Definitely nowhere near as much content of guys fishing steel in densely forested creeks. 

Some of the indicator stuff is useful, but at the same time I need someone to watch what the heck I am doing and tell me whether what I am doing is right or not lol. 

Then youve got guys that swing streamers for salmon and I think I know how to do it, but ive never had any luck at all doing it so I must be doing something totally wrong. The only way Ive caught salmon is nymphing roe patterns. 

 

Lets face it I suck and i need help lol!

Edited April 3, 2020 by AKRISONER

[misfish]

Like Spiel & Bill M would say , if the stream is that tight, use a UL spinning set up.LOL

I have 3  river/creek systems I can swing but majority of the time I am roll casting . If you want wide open, fish the grand river . Looking like I will not get there til fall this year. I hope anyways.

Edited April 3, 2020 by misfish

[Garnet]

you can substitute indicator for float just watch the real fly guys die 100 deaths.

Tie a balanced fly (YouTube balanced fly) and your indicator success will go up.   

[misfish]

The son dropped by to see the fly's I have hoarded up. I know have much tying to do, as he cleaned me out of all woollys,stones and drys . LOL

 

Need to find an online store that is still selling and shipping .

 

Cabelas is now curbside

 

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Edited April 4, 2020 by misfish

[misfish]

Tiny midge fly day . The head on the pin is 5mm to show the size of the fly . Mag light  is some friend I tell ya . Will make wing case ones next .

 

 

 

[AKRISONER]

On 4/3/2020 at 11:02 AM, Garnet said:

you can substitute indicator for float just watch the real fly guys die 100 deaths.

Tie a balanced fly (YouTube balanced fly) and your indicator success will go up.   

Meh, I’ve never been a purist. I’m a friggin bass fisherman lol.

its good enough that I know how to double haul and roll cast (although poorly) lol

ive got floats but I’m certain that my presentation is totally wrong when fishing submerged flies under it. My fly selection is probably wrong and my cast location in relation to the water is also probably incorrect.

the one helpful thing in all of this is I’ve devoted 100% of my dock fishing at the lake to fly fishing so it gives me lots of opportunity to practice casting but without the boring of doing it without any opportunity to catch fish. Pike sure friggin like white streamers! 

[Terry]

On 4/2/2020 at 3:13 PM, misfish said:

Wheres that Christopher kid when you need him ? LOL

 

Hope he is doing well .

Here is a fly he did and  posted on Facebook today

 

 

[misfish]

That is a thing of art .