QK
Thanks, I really like tying whole feather stuff like that and they work real well...
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QK
Thanks, I really like tying whole feather stuff like that and they work real well...
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Pete
Thank you, but to be my own best/worst critic, the body is called painting yourself into a corner... It is dubbed with real seal and softer furs to get the sparkle and to get it to behave. The...
Jeff
Thanks! After looking again I realize the lighting was quite abit too harsh for what i was trying to do... I got lazy and did not want to set up the diffusion tent and the whites all got...
Nothing quite as humbling to a fly tyer as looking at a macro version of his work!
And last, these are some simple glue stick eggs with arctic fox veiling the egg. The Nor-Vise makes this job MUCH easier. Start with chunks of glue stick cut from the stick and ready at hand. Heat...
These are a couple Carrie Stevens style streamers and one is mostly the same as one of here better known patterns. Intentions are to use these to catch a lake trout here in a couple weeks when they...
Did not realize this was just a picture of the same skaters as above:
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/24quarts/Arts%20fly%20tying/BlueandWhiteWulffs.jpg
Three more that are pretty elaborate, but will be fished, including the married-wing Atlantic to the right.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a146/24quarts/Arts%20fly%20tying/fancyflies.jpg
The top is semi-spey Alexandra variation and real simple with just the herl wing...
The Rajah is a standard that I always have some of... a steelhead standard. I used variegated pink and white...
Three skaters... I always have a selection of large dries on salmon hooks just for the first and last cast on every pool. Silver salmon on dries is the best way to giggle outdoors that know. ...
My favorite freshwater silver salmon fly, Jimi Roe. It is just a short pink body, dubbed UV Ice Dub is my current favorite, but pink chennile has been working for a lot of years. There is a single...
These are my favorite flies for stream dollies... The top is just a wet hackle with a pink abdomen (primrose thread) a couple turns of peacock for the thorax and a speckled buff-colored wet...
These are the Caddis adult patterns I use for almost everything, varying size and basic color only... wooops... I also use a LOT of elk hair caddis... Starting on the top are two Goddard caddis, the...
Have been tying a lot the last little while and finally decided to take some pictures and show off some of my work and favorite AK patterns. Unfortunately PhotoBucket has not been easy to play with...