….another Spey Shrimp in a pinkish color…
I was asked to tie some sunray styled tubes for a dude’s trip to river Gaula in the summer. That’s what came out of the vise…hopefully 30 pound of pure chrome will like them. ;-)
Today I played around with spey hackles on this tube fly. The wing made out of arctic fox is put together from 3 wings with different length. The head is finished with uv resin. It almost looks like a conehead, but it isn’t.
This is the first fly in 2013… ;-)
I wish everyone a great year!!!
Early morning, second day of Christmas, it’s raining, the house is still quiet….what could be better than sitting at the tying desk, tying tube flies and watching fly fishing movies at the same time? Ok, fishing could be better, but it’s impossible at the moment due to flood…..
This a kind of pimped Muddler Minnow. I use a piece of zonker stripe for the tail, some fancy dubbing mixed with flash dubbing, krinkle flash, a deer hair muddler head, funky eyes and and a heavy tungsten bead to get it down to the predators. One of my absolut favorite streamer pattern for trout and seatrout!
Here is a super easy and fast way to mix dubbings. You only need the dubbings, a wire brush for pets and a dubbing neddle.
Here are the dubbings I choose for this demo. Two bright colors and flash dubbing.
Make a sandwich out of the three dubbings.
Take the dubbing sandwich and stroke it into the wire brush.
Take your dubbing needle to pull the dubbing out of the brush.
Here is the first result after the first round. Looks nice! If you want the dubbing do be better mixed, go for another round on the brush.
Here is the result after the second round on the wire brush.
Finally the result after the third turn on the brush. Super mixed two toned dubbing with flash highlights in less than 30 seconds! What could be more easy?
tl
Holger Lachmann