leftovers

[fishhead]

All material was dug out of my waste bin on my work station, except for the hook and thread

Hook, TMC 5263 size 8
thread, UNI white 8/0
tail, left over saddle hackle fibers
rib, flashabou found a good size piece, can't really see in pic, need better camera
body, soft fibers from the bottom of chartreuse, blue, and yellow saddle hackles
wound in a thread dubbing loop and trimmed
hackle, chartreuse saddle and dark olive hen, all were the bottom pieces of a feather I had trimmed and already used the tops

[letumgo]

love it!

[willowhead]

YES!!!!! THAT'S! what i'm talkin' bout.....ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!!! Course that's commin' from somebody who does a LARGE majority of his flies by just grabbin' whatever's handy...........it's BEAUTIFUL Ray.....and the hippest thing of all, is the fact that you used your inginuity and experience to come up with a one of a kind fly that KICKS BUTT!!!!! Experience teaches, because there is no substitute. Ya done good, and good on ya.

[kanutripr]

Are you sure that's leftovers? I don't remember any of my "leftovers" flies looking like that!

Nice fly Ray.


Vicki

[letumgo]

Mark & Vicki - this is fishheads fly not mine. I was just the first to comment on it.

[chase creek]

Works for me! Really like the hackle combination.

[willowhead]

"I knew that" i was just testin' ya............. you passed. KILLER tye fishhead.....LOVE it!

[tie2fish]

The zenith of "waste not, want not".

[fishhead]

thank you everyone for the kind words. I thought it would be a good way to get the creative juices flowing and I did have some good stuff in my waste bin. Was there ever a time when the tier did try and use most of the feather, kind of like how the American Indian used all parts of the animal that was hunted?

[Ron Eagle Elk]

Fishhead,

It takes me a long time to fill my wastebin as I try to squeeze every bit of use from a material, no matter what it is. My wife teases me about being cheap, I just say I'm frugal.

I can't remember having anything in a wastebin that was even remotely usable.

REE