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Post by Simon on Oct 3, 2010 6:30:19 GMT
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Post by karel on Oct 7, 2010 14:35:35 GMT
Nice flies! What material is the body of flies no. 1 and 3?
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Post by Simon on Oct 7, 2010 21:40:26 GMT
Hi karel The materal used is Chamois leather the type that you dry cars with! when it gets wet it really looks buggy.
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Post by pedros on Oct 8, 2010 8:08:20 GMT
Don't believe him. Flavoured bread paste
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Post by karel on Oct 8, 2010 21:24:08 GMT
Interesting choice of body material, lol. had to chuckle. Looks somewhat similar to the fern dubbing some tenkara flies are tied with. Do you have any pix of it being wet by any chance?
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Post by Simon on Oct 8, 2010 21:39:22 GMT
will sort some photo's out tomorrow.
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Post by Simon on Oct 10, 2010 5:52:14 GMT
These are my first attempts, Sonia used one yesterday on the lower Alyn to great effect, many many grayling including a double hook up on the dry and nymph both over 1lb. Dry. Wet
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Post by pedros on Oct 11, 2010 8:10:26 GMT
Nice, CDC for the thorax? Also, did you apply glue before the chamois?
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Post by rabmax on Nov 18, 2010 15:55:31 GMT
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Post by Simon on Nov 19, 2010 10:08:03 GMT
Hi Rab After seeing Andys flies i had a look at the ones on the other forum as well, We have found that they are very effective on stillwaters as well, I wonder is it because the look a but like a maggot?
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Post by rabmax on Nov 19, 2010 13:44:32 GMT
I think they take them as a type of caddis grubs.When i was a lad we used to collect caddis grubs from under stones take them out of there cases & fish them in a heavy water.We called them monkey men & boy they are deadly.The shammy grubs look identical to my local monkey men when wet orangy yellowish colour.Something that struck me was when we collected the monkey men they were easy to find early season but scarce in the height of summer.I found the shammy grub deadly for the first few months of the season poor in the height of summer.The starling for legs worked better for me.But i find a bead head PTN with a Cdc collar more deadly than a normal PTN.I will need to try the shammy klink ones. Cheers
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Post by karel on Nov 22, 2010 19:35:54 GMT
I was this last Saturday at a fly tying demo at my favorite shop, one of the more known guides and book author Pat Dorsey was "showing off", lol. Anyway, one of the pattern he was tying was an old pattern called the buckskin which is exactly what is shown above. Thin strip of chamois, twisted and wound up the shank & tie off with black thread. He added though a small ginger tail and no collar. Supposedly they are deadly in size 20 on the South Platte.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2010 17:52:48 GMT
Hi there, Nice flies Simon. I tie my own flies and like using generic patterns suitable in most rivers or streams I fish in eg Pheasant Tail nymph beaded, unbeaded and Parachute Adams
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