This may sound like a crazy idea, but how about this: A Fly of the Week. BUT, it is for everyone to tie the named fly sometime during the week and post a picture of their fly (and hopefully, the recipe). It would be a good way for all of us to learn about different patterns on the same insect imitation.
That is what I find great about this site - the exchange of ideas and fly patterns.
Anyway, if enough of you are up to it, I think it would be good fun and a great way for all of us to learn.
Please let me know if you might be interested in participating. Then, we would have just one thread with all the submissions on that particular week’s fly in one place. And, it would keep us tying!
I’m in on anything but drys. They are the devil by the way! And poppers, anything bass, and salt is the devil too. Beadheads are terrible. CDC anything is a sin. Better count me out, but I plan on enjoying what everyone else posts.
Do you mean a bug of the week? If it is a pattern of the week and everyone ties it, that would just be a bunch of the same thing. But if you set out, say, a skwala stonefly for the week, you would get nymphs and dries and all sorts of variations.
How about the questions, “What would you tie?” and “How would you fish it?” for a given insect or situation. It should bring about some informative patterns and techniques.
For example, “What would you tie, and how would you fish your pattern, for a baetis rhodani spinner fall on a slow pool?”
I’m sure there are as many answers as there members of this board, if not more.
Cheers,
A.
Right now I only have to tie about a dozen patterns a year, to catch [a lot of] fish. I have been divesting myself of tying materials that do not contribute to the patterns I do tie, and am quite comfortable resting on my laurels (or other body parts) watching the rest of you all devise the “perfect” pattern. Or I could go fishing.
It’s a very good idea - for fly tyers. Not being one, I’m in on a qualified basis. That being - if the fly is one that I will be tying to fish in the very near future ( in a matter of a week or two ), I’ll join in.
Like Dennis, I’m down to about a dozen patterns for the year, plus an occasional “gonna go to … so I probably oughta have a couple …”
Maybe you can get Deanna to make the thread ( I’ll suggest “The Bug Club” as a title ) a “sticky” on the Fly Tying Forum.
Sounds like there may be some interest.
Anyway, if we get enough guys, we can try it.
How its done is up to those who want to participate. However, just to throw ONE idea out, we could select an insect (and its stage of development) from the various categories:
Mayflies
Stoneflies
Caddis Flies
Terrestrials
Midges
Etc
So, as just an example, one might select the fly of the week to be: Mahogany Dun. The next week it might be Stonefly Nymph; the next week it might be Blue Wing Olive emerger; etc.; etc.
Not much of a rules guy and others here are better tiers, and so on.
Let me know what you think. One of us can pick the first fly for the week and the tier who can select the next week’s fly as well as the subsequent tier to select the following week’s fly, etc., etc.
What say you???
So sorry, forgot the good suggestion of listing the tying recipe and something about fishing it (if you would like to)
Byron
PS
So far, here’s the participation:
Byron Haugh
Pittendrigh
Dub (except all flies)
DG (sometimes)
Dr Korn
Alan B
Paddy8071
John Scott (sometimes)
How about having it open to all …in other words anyone could feel free to do a particular fly if they had a favorite in a category…I guess anyone could be “sometimes”.
Would it always have to be an insect…what about say steelhead flies…just a thought.
It certainly is open to ANYONE. Needn’t participate every single week either.
Just need to know there will be enough interest.
Whoever has the turn names the next fly, so it could be almost anything!!!
Personally, I’m only into trout flies, so, as an example, I wouldn’t participate if a warm water fly were chosen. So, just participate when and if you want. However, gotta have a bunch of people in the mix for it to be of much value IMHO.
