Cold
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Laser Spey
Well, I was gonna try and throw a laser fly tutorial up here...but a bag of marabou and some guinea feathers wouldn't let me. I ended up with this. While I'm sure there's similar things out there, I've not seen the good old steel ed's laser yarn used quite like this. I give you, the laser spey:  Same fly, different background color...I was surprised at how much it affected the appearance of some of the color.  Recipe: Hook: Any up-eye salmon/steelhead hook. Size 6 pictured. Body: Shank: Red floss Belly: Blue sparkle wing-n-flash Wing: Blue laser yarn Collar: 2-4 wraps of blue dun marabou, one side stripped, then 2-4 wraps of dyed blue guinea, one side stripped Head: Brass hourglass eyes dubbed with orange spectrablend
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/06 21:52:45
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Great tie Cold!!!! Have you tried them yet and how do they fish? Looks like they'd be killers
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Cold
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/06 22:31:24
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Tried a fairly similar tie today on some stockies. It works.  It surprised me how real that blue-gray marabou with the wing-n-flash underneath looks. That laser yarn gives it a wiggly body that's firm up by the head, but soft toward the rear and it just really looks like something that needs to have a fish attached to it. 
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/11 02:13:56
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ORIGINAL: Cold
That gives it a wiggly body that's firm up by the head, but soft toward the rear
Cold...put yur helmet on and insert yur own joke.....nice fly
I don't always snag fish, but when I do... I choose Little Cleos I'm the best looking smartest snagging poacher alive...
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 08:29:34
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ORIGINAL: Mr.Slickfish
ORIGINAL: Cold
That gives it a wiggly body that's firm up by the head, but soft toward the rear
Cold...put yur helmet on and insert yur own joke.....nice fly
Haha...with your mad fly tying skill, I should have let you name it.  Actually, it was a purple one of these that took that last hookup I had on Sunday that took off toward you and harry before breaking off. They work!
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:00:19
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any reason for the eye placement below the shank?
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:04:06
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I was wondering the same thing....
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Cold
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:06:55
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any reason for the eye placement below the shank?
Yes, actually. I had tied up a purple one a few days before this one, with the eyes on top. With the way I had my colors stacked, I wanted it to look vaguely like a baitfish, with darker colors across the top and a lighter, flashier belly. With the eyes on top, it flipped the hook so it rode upside down like a clouser. So I tried tying this one with the eyes on the underside. In slower currents, it worked to keep the fly oriented the right way, but in faster current it messed up and sometimes even rode on its side. I think I'll try tying more, but keep the eyes on top, and just invert my colors to suit a point-up fly. Gotta experiement! 
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:12:14
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if you keep the eyes up top and move them forward, you should have no issues
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:19:05
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if you keep the eyes up top and move them forward, you should have no issues
Thanks for the tip. These were as close to the eye as I could get em....but I think maybe they're just too big for the #6 hook...not sure. I will definitely take your suggestion and try more. Maybe that one that flipped was a fluke.
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:23:53
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they do look a bit large...
from what i've seen
Keep them up top on the shank
- close to the eye with ride point down... think intruders and comets
- back down the shank will ride point up... clousers
with an up-turned eye and the shape of dumbel/ bead chain eyes, you can crowd the eye and still be able to tie on
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:32:29
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Cool! Thanks for the explanation. Btw, how did your weekend go, with being fitted for that ball & chain and all? Would have liked to have met you up at the One Fly, maybe 2010.
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:43:59
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 09:51:06
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Cool! Thanks for the explanation.
Btw, how did your weekend go, with being fitted for that ball & chain and all?
Would have liked to have met you up at the One Fly, maybe 2010.
i'm alive... if that means anything looks like '10 will be 1st anniversy weekend i had a blast last year, and would have liked to have been there
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 10:06:55
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Aw yeah, you're done with the One Fly forever, man!  Not only are you alive...but you're still posting here...so that bodes well for the future. Congrats man.
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RE: Laser Spey
2009/10/12 11:53:11
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