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Flys From Scraps

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Jim Darden
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Do you ever sit and look at the scraps on your fly tying desk and wonder what to do with them? I often create new steelhead flies from the waste. Here are a few examples....pardon my photos, the purple often looks a little blue and I'm still learning......
Bait Artificial fly Natural material Feather Fishing bait
Purple Natural material Organism Feather Violet
Natural material Feather Terrestrial plant Tail Fashion accessory
Fishing bait Bait Artificial fly Fishing lure Feather
Feather Arthropod Tail Terrestrial plant Wing
Purple Natural material Organism Feather Violet
Natural material Feather Terrestrial plant Tail Fashion accessory
Fishing bait Bait Artificial fly Fishing lure Feather
Feather Arthropod Tail Terrestrial plant Wing
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Bajema
Those look great. You'd never know they were from scraps.
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BN2FSH
fantastic!
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Here's my scrap fly. It's killer on still water with a sinking line

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Augy
Those are sweet! Noticed you have the tail flaring up on most of them. Or is that a fin? Sorry. Total newb here.
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shotgunner
Very nice Jim! If those are born from the scrap pile I can only imagine what your first string ties look like.

I too gaze at desk remnants and dream.. but most often that's about far as it gets.
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That red one has a real shrimpy look to it.
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CrockPot
Great looking scraps.

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solduc
Purple Plastic bottle Pink Gas Magenta
The Schmooey
Originally tied from scraps of glo bug yarn and marabou
Now one of my go- to patterns for winter steelhead
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Artificial fly Insect Arthropod Fishing bait Pollinator

Here is one of my Frankenflies. Most come off the vise with slight eau de bourbon that only self deprecated fish will slothily take.
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wanative
Nice looking flies Jim.
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