What's in your vise?

[Zak]

Fantastic evolvable technique. Certainly is an improvement over makflies technique of fixing only one leg group at a time with resin. Now if you pull the antron fibers horizontal over a nymph body made from tapered stretch cord, you have nice gills once fibers are trimmed short. Can even use a thin ribbon of a long fibers dubbing to get fuzzier gills. Horizontal fibers would make a nice Sow Bug.

This video is awesome. I didn't have any stretch magic cord, but was able to replicate the legs technique with some sparkle cord. My imitation needs work, but the leg method worked well and way easier than stuff I had tried before.

 

[Clarkman]

It's fun tying little flies!

Tuna fly tied in my favored bucktail style on a 2/0 Ahrex Bluewater.

Dry:

Wet:

 

[EmergingFisher]

Frenchies size 14 and 16. Ignore the one on the far right, it went through some battles in the water yesterday, it was just out in the bench. I shoot for a relatively sparse collar on these. Also, I definitely need smaller silver wire if I’m going to make these silver!

 

[b_illymac]

 

[Nick Clayton]

Do they ever key in on shrimp/krill? I’ve a thing for tying shrimp patterns.

Oh yes, absolutely.

 

[Kfish]

Oh yes, absolutely.

Nick, do you find it better for tuna flies to have some weight to help it sink? Weighted vs unweighted?

 

[Dr. Magill]

Another "sleeper" from Maine. Big Trout Only. View attachment 268766

Nice
Looks like a caterpillar
What size hooks

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billy like the blue

 

[Nick Clayton]

Nick, do you find it better for tuna flies to have some weight to help it sink? Weighted vs unweighted?

I like a little bit of weight, but generally don't go crazy. Mainly I just like it to be heavy enough that when it hits the water, it breaks the surface and starts sinking a bit, rather than having to weight for the line to bring it down.

 

[SilverFly]

Do they ever key in on shrimp/krill? I’ve a thing for tying shrimp patterns.

I always have some krill patterns in my tuna box. Haven't had to resort to them yet, but they will definitely key on krill. In years past I've seen them puking up wads of big (2") krill. I tie mine on tuna live bait hooks.

 

[Eastside]

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Are you going Euro nymphing? I like blue and will copy this pattern!

 

[Jake]

I always have some krill patterns in my tuna box. Haven't had to resort to them yet, but they will definitely key on krill. In years past I've seen them puking up wads of big (2") krill. I tie mine on tuna live bait hooks.

I’ll tie up some of the shrimptruders I’ve been playing with. (Or would they be krilltruders?)

 

[b_illymac]

Are you going Euro nymphing? I like blue and will copy this pattern!

Nah just for lake indie stuff

 

[SilverFly]

I’ll tie up some of the shrimptruders I’ve been playing with. (Or would they be krilltruders?)

I use tuna krill flies for river salmon, so shrimptruders for tuna makes sense to me.

 

[Kfish]

My little buddy.

 

[Clarkman]

My little buddy.

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Awe, it's so cute....damn that's seriously tiny.