Apr 05 2008
The Brassie is an excellent, and easy to tie fly.Try different colors of wire – copper, brass, red are all effective colors
The Guadalupe Green looks like it would be a very effective pattern up here – I think that I’m going to tie a few of these in different colors as well.
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Mar 28 2008
Came across this fly a while back on hipwader.com – and rediscovered it while organizing bookmarks. An interesting pattern for sure! Click on the image for the complete instructions on tying it.
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Mar 13 2008
I missed this presentation at the NLFT meeting the other day – nice job Greg!
The Doubleback Chironomid (by Greg Scratchley)
Hook: Partridge Klinkhamer Extreme
Tail: Short emu barbules
Body: (underbody) Thread (midge colour – tan/black/grey/olive)
Overbody: Clear midge Liquid Lace
Back: Pearl mylar
Wingcase: Swiss-straw
Throax: Rabbit / simi-seal dubbing
Gill: Emu barbules. (optional)
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Dec 27 2006
International Wet Fly Swap November 2006
Here are photos of all the flys submitted in this sway hosted by Keith Passant of the North Wilts Fly-Fishing Club in the UK. This was the first fly swap that I have participated in, and was a great experience. Kudo’s to Keith for putting it all together, and also to RB of our local club, NLFT.
Dec 16 2006
I’m participating in another fly swap, this time a Classic Wallywing Flies swap. Having never tied a Wallywing before (haven’t tied many dry flies at all to be honest), I figured it was an opportunity to learn something new.
The above link to the Wallywing Method is an excellent How-To – I was practicing last night, and tied my first 2 wallywings ever. I’m pretty pleased with how they turned out… now to do a real pattern… I think for this swap I’ll do a Light Cahill.
Here are my first 2 attempts at a Wallywing (no pattern intended here…. just used what was laying around at the moment.
