I recently started tying these flies. Thought i'd share a few by way of an introduction.
I live in Philly, and fish the local streams and ponds, mostly for trout.
Regularly fish the upper Delaware during prime dry fly season, as well as Salmon River NY for steelhead.
Nice observation. The black banding on the GP tippets is not always uniform among feathers on a GP head (depends on the size of the feather how far apart they are, with bigger feathers having bigger distance between the bands), so on some flies it looks like the inner band is in line with the bend of the hook, on other flies, as this one, i can be a bit past the bend.
When i tie, i generally make the tail approx. 1 hook length (personal preference), that is, from behind the eye, to the bend of the hook - this generally accounts for the difference in apparent length, along with the hook size, where smaller hooks will also have the band closer to the bend.
Simply BEAUTIFUL!
The fly bears your touch of magic. It looks like a rather simple tie, but I am certain that your touch makes it appear that way. I am certain that I could never produce such beauty.
Don't you just hate it when there is one errant feather barb, though.
Amazing flies. Nice photos too. I grew up 25 miles east, in you know where--before the dams on the Delaware (Trenton uses what the world refuses). So we (my dad and I) always thought West. Now I want to go back East (for a little while) and fish there again.
.....where do all the tiers meet? South Street. Saaaaoowth Street.
Amazing flies. Nice photos too. I grew up 25 miles east, in you know where--before the dams on the Delaware (Trenton uses what the world refuses). So we (my dad and I) always thought West. Now I want to go back East (for a little while) and fish there again.
.....where do all the tiers meet? South Street. Saaaaoowth Street.
Whoa! That jumps out and grabs you. I would guess that it would be illegal to fish. Fish looks at it and it would grab THEM. For sure the fish could see it in just about any color water. I wonder if weighted it would work for walleye also?
Been pretty busy the last week or so tying fly orders for opening day, and for fly swaps, but last night i managed to get back to Bergman's Trout plate 1, with the next two flies
Alder
Plate 1 is 42 flies. All the other plates have a number in this range. I'd anticipated tying one or two flies per night as time permitted, but i'm a bit behind as i had some swaps to complete flies for and also some fly orders.
Well, a fellow has to do what a fellow has to do. But I sure enjoy looking at them. The weather here has been so crummy that these flies sort of take my mind off of it. I am anxious to get out to fish, but looks like mid to late May before I can. Please keep the pictures coming.
Rather than continue this thread, i'm going to add photos to the gallery from now on.
I havent been tying many wet flies as i've a couple other projects going right now, but i'll get back to them soon.
Thanks to all who checked in here. The Gallery is now the place to go!
Eunan
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