Calvin Shrimp Tube

Here is one I am planning on using early in the season, a bit bigger and bulkier than how I would normally tie them for the summer. I used dyed orange guinea fowl for the first hackle instead of a hot orange cock hackle.

Three's a crowd.

Here are some more Kinermony Killers that I tied up last night. There are variations from sunburst yellow hackles to just normal yellow and kingfisher blue and a teal blue. I think it will play an important role in my fly box next season!

Also my Simms G4Z waders came from the states. My mind is already at ease for next season. I literally never had a dry day in my previous waders the Patagonia Rio Gallegos. I think I just got a dud set of them but because they were also state size waders I didnt send them back. The manufacture quality of the Simms is superb, thumbs up!

 

I also tied up some Park shrimps with differing materials, soft hackle and bucktail variants. Still cant beat the original tying though!

 

 

 

Kinermony Killer Mini-Tube

FITS xs blue tubing
Utc white thread
Silver oval tinsel and Silver holo butt
Yellow cock hackle
brown ice dub
Orange and yellow bucktail
Krinkle flash
Hot orange cock hackle
Silver fox wing
Teal blue front hackle (original is kingfisher I think)
Jungle cock cheeks
Size XS silver FITS tungsten conehead.

Wolverine

I tied up a Wolverine after watching Davie Mc Phail's step by step tying video. Its a lovely concept and uses silver fox as the front hackle. I think I have a bit of an attraction to green and black at the minute.
FITS Medium clear and xs green tubing.
Mirage and Silver Holographic tinsel butt.
Chartreuse and brown Ice dub.
Silver oval flat tinsel
Brown silver fox underwing
Mirage flash
Chartreuse goat wing
Black silver fox wing
Peacock ice dub brushed out at head.
Jungle cock cheeks
Black silver fox front hackle
FITS tungsten Size S conehead.

Samurai

Green Samurai. It has a really overdubbed head which Frodin calls a sculpin head. It has fantastic movement with a sparse long wing.

An Arachnid in a Black Stoat pattern.

Phatagorva

Heres a fly I've always liked the look of, a Phatagorva. Its a Mikael Frodin variation of the original templedog by Hakan Norling. One of my favourites, not too flashy and nice and subtle. First time tying it, needs a few tweaks but happy with it.

 

 

Another Hairwing I tied a few days ago. Just getting used to the materials. Foxy tails stuff is fantastic to tie with.

Speasy!

Myself and Ronan went for some casting practice. Ronan is using his 14ft Lpxe with Rio 9/10 AFS head and Rio running line. Nippy but a beautiful evening. I stuck to my single hand stuff and Im trying to get my double haul in order, aswell as just gaining more proficiency with the single hander. I was using my Lpxe 10ft #8 with a Rio windcutter #8. Really nice setup and makes a change from the spey stuff. Still have alot of bits to iron out but its very enjoyable, think Ronan was fairly keen on the setup!

Heres another Arachnid I've tied up, its a variant of the thunder spey which is a beautiful fly.

xs tubing, blue
copper holo tinsel
silver ice dub
xs silver tungsten cone
Blue grizzled FF soft hackle
Orange dyed Guinea fowl
Jungle cock (Its now officially finished, no more on the cape!)
xs silver turbo disc.

 

Spey Basics

I was out with a local angler this morning trying a few lines on his Echo SR switch. I went through a few basics of the spey cast and I thought it best to show the proper instruction of the fundamentals. Here are some great teaching methods by Robert Gillespie.

 

Where's me trout rod?

Stunning video, scenery is amazing. Makes me wanna start tying the real imitaton flies again!

Arachnids!!

Heres some flies I tied today and its an idea I have for smaller flies. Basically no hairwing in the tying of a modern hairwing fly. A salmon spider, or arachnid! I think it suits these smaller flies and I will see how they fish for me next season. The possibilities for patterns are endless, looking forward to tricking around with them more and experimenting a bit.