First foray into tying for salt...

[Cold]

I put up a few pics of recent ties on my blog, please feel free to check them out and tell me what you think!

http://dharmaofthedrift.blogspot.com/

[ROR-EYE]

Love the bunny baitfish. What's the under body? Really nice looking fly.

[Cold]

Love the bunny baitfish. What's the under body? Really nice looking fly.

Thanks! The body is simply light blue diamond braid, like you'd use to tie a crystal meth egg, or a shrimp. I have a whole array of colors for great lakes steelhead, so I'm tying up those baitfish in a variety of colors.

[ScottP]

Nice flies; your deceiver with the dumbell eyes is really more of a Half-and-Half (Clouser/Deceiver hybrid). Chartreuse/white was always a killer for false albacore when we fished behind the shrimp boats down at Harkers Island. The tail on your bunny fly looks a bit long - hope you don't have problems with tangling like I used to; I started adding a section of zip-tie to the hook shank prior to attaching the tail (piercing the bunny strip about 3/4" past the hook bend) to keep it from fouling. Have fun, hope you catch a bunch.

Regards,
Scott

[kelkay]

I like the Bunny Baitfish too, and the Half and Half. I thought Deceivers did not have lead eyes? That is why I would call it a Half and Half. What feather did you use for it? I like it. You have some nice flies there.

[Cold]

Yes, that fly is misidentified. Should be a half & half.

I'm glad people are liking the bunny baitfish, that's something I just kind of did on my own, using elements from a few different patterns. The feather is just a streamer hackle feather, nothing really outlandish on that one, but I like how it came together. The fly in the picture already has made a good showing of itself, hooking 2 smallmouth.

[kelkay]

It looks like mostly white, with a touch of grizzly. I love grizzly hackle with a passion.

[Cold]

Actually, my mistake...the feathers on the half & half are from a Whiting American cape, in grizzly. Came home and double checked it.

[kelkay]

Thank you. It is a cool. I like just about any grizzly feather I have ever seen. Grizzly is my favorite over all feather!