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#1 · (Edited)
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PNWFFF, that's where I'd be heading if I were you.
 
#18,701 ·
panfishin' time







Sponge Spider

Hook - Standard dry fly style, size 8-12
Thread - White flat waxed nylon
Tail/Legs - Tail and legs are made from one piece of rubber legs about 4 inches long
Over Body - White 3mm thick foam strip, hook gape wide [see examples below]
Body - Flat holographic tinsel in chartreuse, red, blue, gold, silver, black etc
The fly above is tied in a simple generic white and chartreuse color scheme

Try using different colors of foam, rubber legs and tinsel

Examples











 
#18,703 ·
panfishin' time







Sponge Spider

Hook - Standard dry fly style, size 8-12
Thread - White flat waxed nylon
Tail/Legs - Tail and legs are made from one piece of rubber legs about 4 inches long
Over Body - White 3mm thick foam strip, hook gape wide [see examples below]
Body - Flat holographic tinsel in chartreuse, red, blue, gold, silver, black etc
The fly above is tied in a simple generic white and chartreuse color scheme

Try using different colors of foam, rubber legs and tinsel

Examples











Saw this one on reddit. Where did you get the foam?
 
#18,705 · (Edited)


Egg Sucking Leech

Hook - 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, streamer/nymph hook, sizes 6-12
Bead - Brass or tungsten orange bead
Weight - Lead/lead free wire
Thread - Black or brown
Tail - Dark-brown marabou
Body - Fiery Brown Sybai Spectra Flash Dubbing or equivalent

Can also be tied in all black
 
#18,716 ·


American Pie

Hook - Mustad R79-94720 9XL Streamer hook

Thread - White

Tag - Oval silver tinsel

Body - White floss or uni stretch

Rib - Oval silver tinsel on either side of red floss or uni stretch

Throat - Red over blue hackle fibers over white bucktail

Wing - Red over blue over white bucktail
 
#18,717 ·


Polar Commander - Orange

Hook - Mustad R72-9672, size 2-10

Thread - Orange

Tail - Ginger or light brown goose/turkey biots

Body - Orange, yellow, olive, gray etc. deer hair using crisscrossed windings of thread

Wing - Polar bear hair or substitute

Hackle - Cree or brown & grizzly mixed
 
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