What are you tying now?
The time of year, they drop the flows on the Rogue, and the water is not too cold yet, so I like to switch to spey flies on a floating line instead of nymphs for steelhead.
This is one of my favorite speys's to tie, a simple but effect fly, I call the orange spey. The longer mallard flank seems to make the fly have good movement. I tend to always make the mallard long on my speys.
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Nice!
rriver,
Very nice spey pattern. Let's see, Silver flat tinsel tag, Oval silver tinsel for the rib, rear 1/3 red floss, front 2/3 orange floss. Do you start the hackle where the orange starts? Nice wing on the fly also. Simple, but probably very effective.
I'm working on October Caddis flies. Dries, wets and nymphs for the trip to Idaho. Plus a few other little items that I think will do well there.
I'd like to see some more of your spey fly ideas. nicely done.
Ron Eagle Elk
Ron,
I know it is hard to tell from the photo but its a gold mylar tag, and then gold oval tinsel, floss, and then dubbed orange. I tie in the hackle after the floss, before I dub, then dub, wrap the hackle, then wind the tinsel, add the mallard collar and then the wing is bronze mallard.
My speys are fishing flies; experts would find many flaws.
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- rriver
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Thanks for the kind words.
Here is another one I tied kind of as a joke. I had ordered a TFO spey, and was sitting at the bench trying to think of a fly to tie to use with the rod. So the TFO Spey was born: (Turkey Feathers and Orange).
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- rriver
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I have to know, does the TFO Spey work?
It looks great!
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LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL
Yes - I caught a bunch of half pounders on it, the turkey wing was chewed off, and it then it worked better. I was fishing it in front of an RV park, with those $100,000 RV's parked there with an audience of older folks, sitting in lawn chairs. I was really hoping to get a big fish on to make their day (and I admit, show off). Finally, I had a good fish on, but it tail walked and threw the hook.
Walking back up river, one of them, a lady about 90 said "I would have been fishing more into that undercut bank". I guess she was not impressed ... (I was going to say, "Geez lady it took an 80 foot cast to hit the seam, let alone get it into the bank"), but then I realized she would have thought I was a sissy.
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- rriver
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Finishing up my flies for the hook's up swap, and doing some bluegill flies. BTW, that is one beautiful fly. Wow. JGW
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Heaven help me, I think I'm turning into a pirate! I can't stop tying these saltwater flies. Arrrrggghhhhh.
Steve
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"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"-Will Rogers
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went"
Will Rogers
Danged Steve,
I thought all the good saltwater fishing
was in Ohio. Oh well, I stand corrected.*G*
Warm regards, Jim
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