Fly Tying Photo Thread

[Avid Yak Fisher]

big ups to Yak for all the help along the way. My first finished batch of bass poppers! I am really stoked.

Goodentight Those look awesome and finished in time for the bass season. Now you will have to post the fish you catch with them for us to see. Are those poppers soft foam?

 

[goodentight]

Goodentight Those look awesome and finished in time for the bass season. Now you will have to post the fish you catch with them for us to see. Are those poppers soft foam?

Thanks man.

The heads are just the perfect popper heads yeah.

I didn't buy the kit because I heard those kit hooks are $#1t. I just used a gammy 3.0 (I think, id have to check) and to get them to stick I wrapped in thread and then zapped into the popper. They ain't movin lol

I also have a bunch I didn't post. Would a pike ever hit these? (white/red or that black one?)

 

[Shawarma]

What do you figure is the average cost of a popper that you've made yourself?

 

[Christopheraaron]

What do you figure is the average cost of a popper that you've made yourself?

How long is a piece of string? LOL

On average I'd say it's around a $1.50, maybe a bit more.

 

[goodentight]

well, they get cheaper as you go.

I bought a sharpie 8 pack kit that cost me 20$, but that will last forever...

foam heads are approx 40 cents each, the eyes cost a bit, hook costs a bit, hackle costs a bit etc etc etc.. I dont know. I just enjoy building them! Going to try them out soon.......

 

[tcp]

Slayed carp on lake ontario with this fly over the weekend. various colors, black brown and red doing the best

 

[Christopheraaron]

Sweet! Is that a certain park in the east end?

 

[tcp]

Sweet! Is that a certain park in the east end?

you know it

 

[Christopheraaron]

Nice, I've been wanting to check it out for a while, not sure why I haven't yet.

 

[Christopheraaron]

Took a stab at the Durham Ranger and a GH this weekend.

I'm fairly happy with the Ranger, but I think the floss could have been a little bit smoother, the jungle cock is a little high on the side and I don't really like how the head turned out (I had a nicely shaped herl head and had finished the fly but then realized I forgot my horns. After razor blading the head to put them in it got a little messy.)

On the GH I found the wing to once again to have too much taper (tail may be a little long as well). The floss again is a little rough, the roof ended up getting split on top and the far wing is just a tad shorter than the near. After I had gotten to the throat I looked back and somehow I found that the tail veiling on the near side had also collapsed. The tippet is stripped on one side and it got trapped in the wing for the photo but I've pulled it out with a bodkin since.

Chris

 

[fishermandan420]

Nice ties. Id hang on tightly when swinging that highlander!

 

[Shmogley]

hey is that a certain blue tail feather on that ranger that you may or may not have found a couple weeks ago while wading ?

 

[Christopheraaron]

Nope!

 

[tcp]

When you goin for the atlantics again Chris

 

[Christopheraaron]

LOL, never been.

 

[tcp]

Thought I saw an Atlantic mission on your blog. My bad, maybe it was a BC steelhead trip?

 

[Christopheraaron]

Thought I saw an Atlantic mission on your blog. My bad, maybe it was a BC steelhead trip?

I did do a BC salmon trip last fall but I don't run a blog...

 

[fishermandan420]

Let's get this thread rockin again. Got some tip-dyed marabou and wanted to test drive it so i whipped up a quick hobo

 

[Christopheraaron]

Nice looking hobo there TC! Heron is starting to come into the shop, the time is near!

 

[fishermandan420]

Thanks chris. Just a quick 5 min tie to see how it looks on a.shank. i was eyeing up my heron yesterday