Some Salmon & Sea-Run Softies

[letumgo]

Sweet sweet flies, Jeff! It's fun watching you play. Marvelously fishy combination. (sincere compliment)

[Stendalen]

Jeff,
These are gorgeous. The application of giant soft hackles for sea run fish is an idea that I have seen come up once in a while, but I don't know how successful it has been. At those sizes, what might the fish take them for? Or does it even matter, so long as they bite? Carl Old Hat has experimented with them. Stendalen was posting some big flymphs for seatrout in January, under Soft Hackle Seatrout flies collection:
http://www.flymphforum.com/viewtopic.ph ... len#p31874

You are definitely on a roll here. Keep 'em comin'.
Lance

Lance
I use almost exclusively soft hackled flies to catch my sea-run browns. They work very well. However I mostly use "natural" colous like different olives, tan, sand and in early spring something with red or claret.

BR
Martin

[Mataura mayfly]

Was going to run and hide, but I see the act I was about to follow has been shifted. Beautiful spiders Martin.

I tied a Burlap last night, put it somewhere and now cannot find it...... will turn up in someone's sock one day. We have the kind of carpet flies "disappear" into.
Tied another, though under macro it does not look as good as the lost one.



I kind of like this one, might even fish it.



Hook: BGC 2302 #8
Thread: Yellow #12
Rib: Fine gold wire
Abdomen: Metallic gold thread
Thorax: Yellow seal fur followed by a ball of three bronze peacock herl
Hackle: Pukeko belly

Onion Bag Tie Flies.



Hook: Kamasan B830 #6
Thread: Yellow #12
Tail: Olive dubbing
Rib: Synthetic thread stripped from black Onion bag tie
Lower body: Synthetic translucent black webbing weave strand from same bag tie
Upper body: Grey possum guard hairs, held in bulldog clip before cutting off above under fur, inserted in split thread and wrapped as a collar.
Hackle: Pukeko belly



Hook: As above
Thread: Orange #6
Tail: Hends Spectra dubbing
Rib: As above but doubled and twisted
Lower body: As above
Upper body: Possum fur dyed claret and noodle dubbed
Hackle: Oyster Catcher lower breast.

Intruder.



Hook: #2/0 with bend and point cut off
Trailing hook attachment: #20 fly line backing
Thread: Uni black #8
Butt: Ball of red wool
Feelers?: 8-12 Ostrich herls spun around hook
Lower Hackle: Dyed Guinea Fowl
Body Material: Purple metallic thread
Upper butt: Small clump of deer hair spun on shank, butts trimmed and standing square off shank
Upper Hackles: 8-12 Ostrich herls placed around shank, dyed Guinea Fowl and soft dyed cock hackle.

Stored Intruder (also a good way of storing bushy tube flies)

[Mataura mayfly]

Just one today, maybe running out of crazy ideas........ or boring the readers a bit.



Hook: BGC 2302 #8
Thread: Light purple #12
Tail: Organza ribbon strippings
Abdomen: Double wires as stripped from a pair of ear-bud type headphones, wrapped side by side
Thorax: Natural wool blend
Hackle: Some form of Parrot body feather

[William Anderson]

Jeff, another excellent use of your resources. The wiring in the earphones was a nice score. Beautifully done. It's great to see your creativity.

w

[Mataura mayfly]

Jeff, another excellent use of your resources. The wiring in the earphones was a nice score. Beautifully done. It's great to see your creativity.

w

Thanks William. With a teen and a pre-teen in the house that have all the mod con's to listen to music (what was wrong with the transistor radio?) and a couple of cats that love to eat anything that hangs and swings enticingly, ear-bud wires are not hard to come by. First set I had bothered to strip before tossing in the recycle bin though....... will be checking from now on.

[Mataura mayfly]

Same methods, slight material variations and different looking flies.



Right Fly:
Hook- #10 200R
Thread- #12 light purple
Abdomen- Kinkame purple silk twisted with fine copper wire before wrapping
Thorax- 4 light purple Ostrich herl twisted on wire before wrapping
Hackle- Light purple Grizzle Cock

Left Fly:
As above, but two strands of purple embroidery yarn subbed for the Kinkame silk of the abdomen.



Right Fly:
Hook- #1 Salmon iron
Thread- Black Kinkame silk
Lower body- Flat silver tinsel
Rib- Uni medium French oval silver
Upper body hackle- Pukeko
Upper body- Black wool in a dubbing loop
Collar- 2 turns of natural Guinea Fowl
Front hackle- Black Hen

Left Fly:
As above, except the body hackle starts with the rib at the butt end of the fly, not upper body only as the first and the hackles used in front are bulkier as they are the left overs of the hackles used in the first fly, that were tied in by the tip, so the fibres are heavier and longer.

[letumgo]

Jeff - those are BOSS! The bottom right fly is my favorite of the set. Very classy dressing.

[Mataura mayfly]

Orange & Gold Shrimp



Hook- #6 double (made from treble)
Thread- Black #8 Uni
Tag- Gold or silver oval (silver here)
Rear Hackle- Red body feather from Golden Pheasant Cock bird
Rib- Fine gold oval tinsel or wire
Rear body- Gold tinsel or Lurex with above rib
Mid Hackle- Hot orange cock hackle
Front body- Noodle dubbed black wool with black spectra dubbing mixed in. Can be black seal or floss. Ribbed as above
Front Hackle- Badger

On a longer #6 single

[William Anderson]

I'll have what he's having.