Early Trout Season Flies

Just a few creations for Wisconsin's Early Season.

Be sure to bring a few of these along for the early trout season.  Fish love them.

Until Next Time......Tight Lines to All !!!!

Super Creation!!!

Well, the little fella decided to show up a few days earlier than expected.  I figured that he was making sure that he was fully ready for the trout season opener on March 3rd.  

Everyone say hi to:

Finnigan Forrester Stone Ewing

Born February 18th 2012  12:32a.m.

8lbs 10oz.  and 21 inches long

I wonder which stream he is dreaming about :)

Until Next Time......Tight Lines to All!!!!!!

Whiskey Creations :)

A bottle of whiskey, plus a new pack of hooks, equals a few new flies.  I made the bomber in honor of a good bottle of Whiskey :) I prefer Gentleman Jack.  The second fly has been tied up for opening day of trout season.  Soon the music took over and I lost track of what I was doing and the fly tying ended earlier than expected :)  I ended up creating a few new things using Adobe Illustrator.  Hope you like the new creations.  

Until Next Time...........Tight Lines to all!!!!!!!

Buggin Out for Trout !!

Here are a few new flies hot off  the vise.  Oceans been tying some new ones and they are looking better with each one.  Pretty soon maybe he can fill my fly box for me :)  Happy tying to everyone.  Can't wait for springtime and open waters !!  How old were you when you first started tying flies ????  

One of Oceans new flies.  Looks like a killer for sure :)

TEACH A KID TO TIE :)

I found my old vise the other day when I was doing some rearranging.  I decided to give it to the kids so that they could start tying their own flies.  Here are some of Oceans and Sephoras first flies off of the vise.  They managed to do all of the steps by themselves and I helped them tie them off.  I wish my first fly that I tied looked as good as theirs :)  Talk about making a Dad proud :)  Sorry about the terrible pics, my Nikon is in for repair.

Sephoras very first fly.

Oceans very first hand tied fly.

Once I showed Sephora she just kept on tying until she had a nice pile of flies.

Until Next Time......Tight Lines to All!!!!

MINI MUDDLER MUD HONEY

Here is a fly I tied up on a size 14 hook with the Muddler Minnow on my mind.  I ditched the deer hair and chose some peacock instead.  I am thinking that this will hammer the Brookies, or the Brookies will hammer it :)  I hope you like the Mini Muddler Mud Honey. 

" Mud Honey "

Until Next Time......Tight Lines to All !!!!!

Sephora's Indispensable Fly

I was tying flies the other day when my daughter Sephora asked if she could help me.  I told her I was going to tie up a Tup's Indispensable fly and she could help pick out the materials.  I know that this may not be the exact materials used in a Tup's Indispensable so I decided to call it Sephora's Indispensable.  The tail was made using a few of Sephora's hair strands and part of the body was pink Marabou used from one of her broken purses.  She brought it to me and asked if I wanted the pink feathers.  Of course I was glad to have them.  Here is a quick how - to - on the fly.  Hope you like it :)

Tie in the tail. ( I used a few strands of Sephora hair ) Very hard to get :)

Next after wrapping tail in with thread, tie in the pink Marabou feathers. ( I used 4 strands )

It really made her day when I used those pink feathers :)

Wrap the Marabou around the hook like you would hackle.  Then tie it off and snip extra.

After tying off Marabou add the piece of hackle of your color choice.

Next you want to form a little body with some dubbing of Sephora's your choice.

Take the hackle and wrap it up around the body part formed by dubbing.  Snip extra and finish of the fly.

So there you have it.  One happy little girl and one winner of a fly.  She is almost as excited to get out there and test it as I am.  Do you fish Indispensables often?  Do you use the standard materials or mix it up with your own variations?  Who taught you how to tie flies?  

Until Next Time.........Tight Lines to All !!!