Reply With QuoteThey are all awesome, very well done! All will produce fish.
Steelhead
First fly posting - be gentle!
It was just the other day I asked on the forum if someone could please tie me some droppers and Rory came to my rescue. After that I decided to buy a cheapy vice and some materials and try my hand at it. After that, the Rubicon Fly incident got me hooked and I started to enjoy trying something I thought was only done by old ballies sitting at oak desks wearing thick glasses and a headlamp.
Anyways as I am new to this and it is my first self-tied-fly posting I would love to hear any comments and definately advice!
Hookjaw
They are all awesome, very well done! All will produce fish.
Steelhead
Good going Mario, these are good first time flies. Just cosentrate on body and thorax dimensions and there shapes. WELL DONE. Hope to see plenty more.
Dave
Handle every situation like a dog.- If you cant hump it, piss on it and walk away. --JASPER.
Steelhead
Well Done!! Much better then my first attempts!! I wouldn't even post them on a public forum. Those will def catch fish!
Steelhead
Awesome flies Humpy!Can I place an order?
"I'm just a beer drinker with a flyfishing problem"
Steelhead
Why should we be gentle? They all look good. I've tried to take pictures of a fly I made the other day. I gave up when the battery on the camera went. Needless to say I'm not a good photographer.
Oh yes the flies really looks good.
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing" - Einstein
Steelhead
Be good to see your fly, get batteries quick and post. I also still battle with pics of my flies, so what! Then you get critisism on both fly and photo skills.Originally Posted by frikb
Dave
Handle every situation like a dog.- If you cant hump it, piss on it and walk away. --JASPER.
Steelhead
Thanks all - thanks Rory - I only started tying when the ones I got from you were finished. Evry single fly you gave me caught a bucket load of fish. I even tried to clone the ones you gave me. It's just not the same...
Steelhead
Mario, practice makes perfect, after that they will be the same.
Dave
Handle every situation like a dog.- If you cant hump it, piss on it and walk away. --JASPER.
Steelhead
All good.
Only crit or rather suggestion from my side, bearing in mind I'm no expert tyer. When you do a collar/thorax behind a bead with PH or dubbing, overdub just a little. then when you whip finish you stroke the dubbing back with your fingers as you pull tight on your finish/hitch. This will help conceal your thread wraps and whip finish behind the bead.
Esssentially your collar/thorax will cup the bead as opposed to being some ways away from it. Hope that is understandable.
"Hierdie drol het baie vlieë" - Ago 2014.
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