A couple wee wets from the vise

[Ron Eagle Elk]

I've finally broken through the case of the tying blahs and tied up a few of my favorite wee wets. Enjoy.


Pritt's Water Cricket with Orange Silk


Blue Eared Pheasant Herl and Dun


Pheasant Tail and Furnace


Grey Squirrel and Dun Flymph

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Just a couple more...okay, okay, four more.


Pritt's Water Cricket with Primrose Silk


Little Olive Flymph


Claret and Starling (Sorry about the messy head)


Snipe and Purple

[bugman]

what size is them ? i tie some of those on size 18 & 16...

[rookie]

Very nice Ree. Glad to see you got rid of the blahs. These wee wets are some of my favorite flies to tie. You gotta love em.

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Bugman, the spiders are tied on a Daiichi 1640 2 X Short size 14. On the spiders, I usually don't go smaller than a 16.

The flymphs are on a Mustad 94842 size 14. I like the turned up eye for flymphs. It just looks right. I tie olives down to 18, but that's about as small as I go.

The Blue Eared Pheasant Herl and Dun is on a Grip 14723 size 14. It's a really elegant hook with a wide gap and sharp as all get out.

The Pheasant Tail and Furnace is on a Mustad 3906 size 16. I like this when BWO's are emerging. It's taken for a BWO nymph a lot.

Rookie, Thanks. Feels good to sit at the vise for a spell. Good thing to, I'm tying at the Oregon Tying Expo next weekend. You guessed it, North Country Wet Flies.

REE

[rookie]

What are you doing up? This is the middle of the night Man.

[vargoje3]

Prob the same reason i'm up......work.

Nice looking wet flies. Tied up about 2 dozen hares ear and partridge a couple nights ago that should do the trick. I'm not familiar with the patterns you posted however and will have to tie a few up.

[eaustin]

More nice flies! Hans influence?
Eric

[deserttrout]

REE
Nice flys. Like you I hardly ever go and tie anything less than 14. My eyes are just to old. I was just in an "Old Farts Swap" and we have a size 26, 28 and 32 tied up by different tiers. They are so small I am afraid to use them as I wouls lose them.
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[Clay]

Love the comment about "sorry for the messy eye". Damn us fly tiers are a picky bunch.

Those all look fantastic. Classic lines that I see fish just eating up. Now for the real question: How do you like to fish them and in what circumstances?

On another topic, I saw a guy talking about which fly to choose and I thought that it was like a carpenter spending a huge amount of time to select a hammer, but never learning how to build anything with it. After we have the fly, what do you do with it. I'm waiting and wanting to learn.