Monday, March 8, 2010

Steelheading



Got the fly box ready and went up to Salmon. Went too far down the river to deep water. Deeper than I could really cover on the swing.

As all I tied into was one 4 inch bow, one 13" cutthroat and one sucker fish I am just going to show the fly box ;)



Eggs of which I lost about 1/2 of the ones seen here. Luckily they take about a minute an egg. These are otter soft eggs in the 6mm size. I pushed a small red glass bead into the egg before pushing the egg over the eye.



Various flies tied over the last few months. Each takes me over an hour.

4 comments:

Bigerrfish said...

It doesnt matter how long it takes as long as you have enough to fish for the whole time your fishing... your flies are looking great.. I have found you can gain speed by assigning yourself five more after the first on is done!!!

jabberwock said...

Five more.... man I would be on the vise all night! ;)

I am trying to get better and faster at these steelhead flies.

Bigerrfish said...

ha someone told me that once,,,shure lit a fire under my butt!! have fun with your flies make them perfect plan another,, speed comes soon after. I am not saying I am fast but have you ever got a late report on a hot fly you didnt have or couldnt bye..? you cant spend the whole hatch tyin em. P.S. thanks for checkin out my blog

jabberwock said...

I can bang out most nymph patterns in a matter of minutes and a parachute post dry fly or hackle stacker in around 5-7 minutes, but these big spey style flies with all their hackle and steps just seem to take me longer.