# 26 olive midges seem to be working or atleast someone told me were

Slick I'll get some pics up but I'm terrible at tying flies.

PT, Scuds, Little Buggers, and my newest invention, the Squirrel Tail Bead head Streamer Thingamajig.  

sparsely tied multi-colored glo-bugs...ran out of them this weekend...

Some of these.

They might like these.

Funny you should ask --

I've been messing around with the Joe Brooks Blonde (bucktail), which is a style of fly rather than a particular pattern and an ancestor of the Lefty's Deceiver, a go-to for salt water anglers here in the NE. The tier can vary material/color/size to get the desired action/effect.

Here's the basic idea -- I use a 4X, heavy hook. The tail (calf tail, craft fur, bucktail, whatever) should be 2X the hook shank length measured from the hook point -- i.e., 1/2" shank = 1" tail. (For craft fur, tho, I go a little longer)

Wrap a mylar body.

Tie in a bucktail wing so that the tip extends to the end of the tail. Tie the wing in at the head, so that it is slightly elevated, to enhance the fly's liveliness in the water. I add a few strips of mylar flash, tie off, and paint on eyes.

The placement of the tail helps keeps it from fouling on the hook bend and acts as a barrier to keep the wing from wrapping around the bend. Tip: to really discourage the tail and wing from fouling the hook bend, try tieing in a half dozen strands of coarse bucktail before tieing in the fly's tail and trim this first layer just beyond the hook bend so that it acts as a stiff shelf that keeps the tail material at or above the level of the hook shank. This little tying trick also works on buggers.

Google Joe Brooks streamers. There are sites with advice on fishing and tying. The appealing thing to me is that they're so customizable, easy to tie and fish seem to like 'em. Also Lefty kinda crowded in there on this style of fly with the Deceiver, and ol' Joe probably deserved more credit fot the style imho.

Bucktails are kind of falling from favor with everyone but fish. Try a couple, you may like 'em.

any time of the year, or water condition you guys have success with blue? (eggs)
 

Been workin on the box of flies I offered for the photo contest. A few more to go.
 

 

 

That is some beautiful work Steely....

Nice ties steely! Giving that liquid lace a workout. I pretty much have all the egg patterns I'm gonna need so I've been tying mostly nymphs. Did well the other day on pt's so I tied some more of those, hare's ears, princes, copper john (red and green), also stone's.

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Again.

Black stoneflys ..... I think lmao ....... with gray biots cause thats all i have

Here are a couple I'm working on