Here are some of my first flies. Constructive criticsm is welcomed.
Baybum
Pics of first flies
Here are some of my first flies. Constructive criticsm is welcomed.
Baybum
You are off to a great start! My first flies looked like complete garbage!
Your pictures turned out really good too!!
David Merical
St. Louis, MO
You DO look like you're off to a good start!! Just watch, carefully, the materials crowding the eye. It can be a pain to get to the stream, and not be able to get the tippet through the eye!
Trouts don't live in ugly places.
A friend is not who knows you the longest, but the one who came and never left your side.
Don't look back, we ain't goin' that way.
They look great! The real test will come when you fish them, but I don't think you'll have a problem getting takers. I especially like your foam beetle.
Nice job!
Trout don't speak Latin.
Very Nice,
When I mess up and crowd the eye, I use a very fine dubbing needle, (bead needle stuck in a cork) heat it to a red hot and burn out the eye. not as nice as tying it right but better than cutting the fly apart with a razor blade and starting over.
Eric
"Complexity is easy; Simplicity is difficult."
Georgy Shragin
Designer of ppsh41 sub machine gun
Great flies! I started putting rubber legs on the same beetle pattern, just a bit larger, and in yellow.........bass & crappie love 'em....................ModocDan
Maybe you should come over and tie my flies................
Good fishing technique trumps all.....wish I had it.
Yours look way better than my first flies. Keep up the good work.
Thank y'all for the compliments.
I have been running some line through the eye when I am done, just to clear out any cement or make sure I can get a line through. I need to focus more on not crowding the eye so I don't have to worry about it.
I fished with that beetle last Saturday and caught 2 bass and a bluegill on it. As soon as that beetle hit the water for the first time, I had a bass on it. I was pretty tickled.
Those look good, I specially like the Poly Wing Caddis. I just see a couple little things:
1) Just like Betty said, watch out for materials crowding the eye of the hook - getting the correct spacing will come as you tie more flies.
2) On the all-purpose nymph, it looks like you cut the tail fibers (pheasant tail, maybe?) square as opposed to leaving the tips intact. Was there a reason for that?
Alberto
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