Cool Pictures of a Fly

A friend is helping me learn some new techniques and thought I would share a few picture I took on one fly so far. It's just too humid and hot to do the rest now, but will get the rest done later. This is a rope dubbed fly.

Anyway all 3 pictures are of the same fly, but the first picture is just in regular lighting and the other 2 are done under a Black Light.

Enjoy!

Skip
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and just a different setting on the camera...
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Wow. The lighting made 'em look like 3 different flies.:)

love the green color

excellent job skip you learn fast. You did a good job on this fly you were making me jealous. You're making me want to tie trout flies again that fly looks to be awesome for her bluegills I'm sure that it will be a killer. And it definitely is very interesting in a different light.

That looks good Skip. Love the look under the black light. Thumbs Up

Nice Skip

Nice work..

Love those parachute flies. I tied a lot of them at one time. Never caught anything on them but hope to change that this year. I really like the attention you paid to the chute, is over looked too often and is a vital part to a properly presented fly at times.

Real nice work Skip. What size?

Thanks guys, but I am still working on learning this technique and I didn't tie this one so sorry to not be clear on that. Don tied it and a bunch of others for me as go by to look at. He tied a bunch of Roadrunners I sent him too to show what I can do with this.

On the size I am not sure, but looks like maybe a #8 or #10, but will find out soon as he kept pictures to talk with me about them. I am getting a web cam so he will teach me on this new stuff while watching what I do. I am pretty excited about this as he's been tying for like 50 years and is very good as you see. Soon I will be doing this stuff too.

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Still a really nice fly even if you didn't tie it. Takes a little work to learn it but not too hard once you do.

I can already tie pretty good, but am trying to get this particular way of dubbing down. Just want until I post the rest of the ties he did and some on my Roadrunner heads. He tied a good many heads and flies for me as go by ties.

Oh and BTW that red on top is Polar Bear dubbing. He separates the different lengths of Polar Bear into like 4 lengths and the last is for dubbing.

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A rope body on a RR! Wow just think about the tails you could put on that thing!

That polar bear should float like a cork. I use foam posts for mine just because I don't have room for anymore material. Hardest part for me is tying in the hackle once I have wrapped it around.

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Originally Posted by skiptomylu

Thanks guys, but I am still working on learning this technique and I didn't tie this one so sorry to not be clear on that. Don tied it and a bunch of others for me as go by to look at. He tied a bunch of Roadrunners I sent him too to show what I can do with this.

On the size I am not sure, but looks like maybe a #8 or #10, but will find out soon as he kept pictures to talk with me about them. I am getting a web cam so he will teach me on this new stuff while watching what I do. I am pretty excited about this as he's been tying for like 50 years and is very good as you see. Soon I will be doing this stuff too.

Skip

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That's plenty small, thanks.

Nice fly, so how long does it take an expearianced tyer like your friend to complete one fly like that. Keep us posted on your ties and roadrunners.

He can do the basic fly body with any number of different materials and have them all segmented and done in less than one minute. Probably only hte very head and maybe some hackle at the head would be the only thing left. I have seen him do the segmented dubbed body in like 30 seconds.

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