Mike Wilkinson
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Sweet photos and trip Tim…. I’m making plans for next year hopefully??
Looking at these makes the wait even harder 🙂Had trouble getting the site to load for a while… I have been playing with UV clear as seen on the back of some of these bombs…
Playing with a whitebait pattern… didn’t get to use it this last weekend as a big slip has closed the road to the coast.
A mate took a few the week earlier and got a couple of sea runners…
It can be all about being the right place at the right time… my local Pharmacy was doing a revamp and was getting rid of it’s rotating nail polish stand…
Put to good use next to my roll top desk…
A new colour combo, liking the look of it so far…
Just got some Loon UV clear fly finish and been adding it as a back to add some durability…
Thanks Zach, the top flies are just a variation of a ‘Simon’s Ugly’… 2x 3.5mm tungsten beads locked in with 4-5 turns of 0.25 lead and wire body. Great fly to get down deep quick with a smaller natural fly for a tail works great, gets eaten a lot on it’s own too!
The photo’s were just on the tying desk, a last minute thought… I will play with a neutral back ground next time. I was just reading the post about shooting studio stuff and making it float… so much to learn and try!I thought I would have smashed out the project over winter… didn’t do the tying I normally would.
Busy life and mild weather had me doing other things… I finally got a few more tied.
Poor photos’ and I discovered a spot in the lens of my PS camera  >:(
Have to set up the shot to one corner to try and crop it out….
Here’s a couple from the latest batch…
Been no emergers getting tied at the moment, got some orders to tie and been playing around tweaking a couple of favorite flies for the lake… added a chenille peeking head on a couple of caddis nymphs…
Thanks Guys… must get into the next section collar hackle and heel collar emergers. It ha sheen a good way to learn different tying techniques and options for other patterns.
I have done the paraloop section of the book, only a half dozen patterns… this is probably my favorite…
Just finished the parasol/ umbrella series so on to the paraloop emergers next…
It’s funny how you enjoy tying certain style of flies over others…. a couple from the last batch…
Ha ha… no need to rub it in, it’s been around -7 deg celsius and warms up to around 2-3 deg celsius during the days this week. Just got acquired a Sage XP 4 weight so might brave the cold just to cast it at least
It’s superfine dry fly dubbing from a dispenser? I don’t remember the brand… it’s good stuff to dub a nice fine body.
Thanks. I’m working my way through the book “Tying Emergers” by Jim Schollmeyer and Ted Leeson. I have been keeping track as I go on my blog, just over a third of the way through the book now.
A couple more from the last batch, I haven’t given myself any timelines
I’m just back from 4 days fishing the mayfly hatches on the Mataura in Southland… the hatches were a little light but a wee CDC dun did the business. There was a day when the normal parachute profile was ignored but a CDC compara dun was accepted. I like CDC in still slow waters for that gentle movement.
The hatches never really came on for my trip south… hoping when I go down for the last week in April, the hatches will be in full swing. The flies all caught fish just had to tie few more nymphs while there.
I have been back at the vice to continue my project, this is probably my favorite from the latest batch…
You can see the rest on my blog…
http://evolutionofaflyfisher.wordpress.com/Now to tie a few more flies for Southland
