ORIGINAL: Plum Bob

Dano, what are you using for tubing? ..........  Cones, plated hour glass eyes, bead chain, all work well for front weighting tube flies.
 

 
Bob, I'm using plastic and hybrid from HMH. THat's what the fly shop had on the rack.
I now realize I need to weight the head. That was my mistake.
The flies I tied on copper tracked fine.
I'll give you a call.

Kev,

Very nice!!

Ahhh, now you all are talking my style. I had to open a new account (but I've never really been a dedicated poster, sorry) so this is my first post. Here's some of my swingers. Classic Dees tied on tubes. The Balmoral is a vicious pattern for steelies. The line up: left to right. Top Row: Akroyd, Balmoral and Dr. Forbes. Row 2: Dodger, Dunt and Gardener. Row 3: Killer, Gledwing and Glentana. Row 4: Inchgarth, Jock O'Dee and Redwing. Tight Lines!

Just an HMH adapter. No special vise. Thanks, man!

Here's another one from the dark recesses of my brain.

jfdIII: I have a renzetti tube vise, but I have a hard time stopping my tubes from spinning on the mandrel. Sometimes I end up re-tightening the mandrel 3 times during a fly. maybe its just a matter of learning how to adapt my tying to the tube vise. Just wondered what you tied on, if I find someone who uses a renzetti maybe they can give me some tips.

Nice! for some reason I see that and think "Silver Hilton Spey Tube". I Like it!

What is that winging material in the bottom pic? Looks like the stuff I just got but havent played with yet. I picked up some goat for long over wings.

Let me rephrase. I mixed in some sparse strands of ice wing into the goat and a couple strands of krystal flash before tying in the goat.

Finally got my lazy asz to the vice. Usually new materials get put on quicker but time hasnt been that available.







tag of slv tinsel
tail wht fluoro fibre
body uv lavender ice dub
body hackle wht schlap
under wing wht arctic fox
krystal flash
collar grey schlap
mid wng grey siver fox
over wng olive secret goat
JC cheeks
cone


I like it. The fluoro fiber is nice stuff. Very fine and puts off a very nice shine. Sorry about the goat thing. My supplier is very limited in what they have and thier supplier has just retired so things may be slim for some time on it. The sheen on it is just sick.

Yum on that tie, Swinger! That has to be a killer emerald imitation. I've got some goat, well sort of, and it's not in short supply. I do all my own dying on it and have a pretty good source. I'm going to have to post twice because I don't know how to put more than one photo in a post. But, anyways, here's some o' the stash.

Here's a quick Black Doctor I just whipped up. The blue and the black in the wing is the kid hair. I tried to take it with a flash to show the sheen. The red and yellow is traditional AF. The thing about the kid hair is that it is so soft, you have to have some stiffer fibers underneath so the wing doesn't completely collapse in the current.

Hook: Owner size 6 octopus
Tube: 1.5" Plastic
Thread: Red Uni 6/0
Butt: Red Berlin wool
Rib: Flat embossed gold tinself (medium)
Body: Black Acrylic Yarn
Hackle: Black
Throat: Black rooster coque and guinea fowl
Wing: Pearl krystal flash with Yellow A. fox, Blue kid hair, Red A.Fox and Black kid hair with Peacock over all
Cheeks: Jungle****br> Head: Red

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Spent some time at the table today while watching some football. Nothing extraordinary, just some simple tubes...Some bunny tubes and stil messing with the temple dog and cashmere goat...

One idea could be to switch the blue out for a darker green to get a shiner appearance on the red white blue tube. Just an idea. They all look simple and effective.

I just wanted to give this thread a bump and maybe motivate some people round here. I am just as guilty for not posting flies as you but looky here. Measured in at 29 3/4" I would give her 10 lbs. I lost a solid 12 pounder before this fish. Fun none the less. Enjoy the fish porn.

Tube in the mouth



Poor money shot. But I wanted to do it quick.

Messing around with flies for the new two hander.