Instead of a swap I thought it might be fun to challenge you other tiers to bring a kit to work (if that's allowed and safe) to do some tying over lunch break. There is no real tyer vs. tyer aspect to this, I use the word challenge in a most indefinite manner. I just want to start some folks to tying. A kind of virtual tying get-together.

Here is my first, a Gartside Sparrow

Today's is very very simple. I want to see if it's too simple to catch fish consistently and effectively.

They look fishy to me. I want to know what kinds they catch.

We shall see, we shall see. I am headed for bream waters after work today....

So I'm interested, what bit on those? I've been noticing that both the bass and the panfish in my pond are biting my flies that have small hints of that gold metal stuff in them.

Guess who got all the way down to the creek and forgot to bring the new flies with?

OK, I will give it another go once the blow-out lets up (some rain last night eh?)

Maybe, just maybe, I can play in this one. Guess we might have an old vice around the shop somewhere.

Robin I tie some streamers that look just like that, except I add a bucktail wing on top.

Cap Spiders today Watch the video.

Quick !! Somebody grab the RAID !!! Look at all dem BUGZ!
Nice flies there Robin.

As usual good looking flies there Robin. Wow you are talented!

Thank you Kelly

What I am really looking for is more fly pr0n. Our friend to the south, Hook Line & Sinker, has graced this site with many of his deer hair flies. I'm hoping that others will follow suit.

Really, you don't have to tie them at lunch.

HLS is just amazing. I haven't made a fly in about two weeks now. I have been doing more fishing. I believe I have probably hit close to my limit on species though. Yesterday I caught 11 crappie. None were keepers, one was close. I like to be able to keep a few now and then for eating. It seems people want to push fishing as a hobby, but there seems to be more people fishing than ever. The bad thing is the size of catchable fish has gone down...and the length limits and slots have gone up. I used to think that getting a fishing license and tackle would be offset by food prices by keeping some fish to eat, thus lowering my food bill. But I have spent a fortune on tackle...and besides trout over the winter have hardly caught anything of keeper size. I have caught a lot of fish too. I could of kept the bream, but they are hardly worth the effort to clean. (unless they are BIG bream...and they are good eating) Fishing has become an obsession for me. I love to make flies. I think though that this summer when it is too hot for me to fish, I will make more flies. I have made more than I need already though. I have a ton of flies I have made.....and I could never fish them all...lol.

Rubber Hackle Woolly Worms

Took a little longer then a single lunchtime

Y'all are just plain incredible. Your talents are making me jealous...hehehe.

Thanks for the compliments Kelly. Now how about some flies?

I have not made any flies in a while now...maybe a couple of weeks. It would be nothing to the two of you though...hehehe.

Maybe Fly will put up a couple from the display. That has a couple of pretty good ones I did.

what do you use for your popper bodies? I painted up a foam ear plug to see how it would do

Today - Cat's Whisker Chartreuse, Arctic Fox, 3399 #8 hook.

I think that is a cool fly. I need to make a couple of them. I used one of my crappie candy flies under a bobber today and caught a couple of small crappie. Then I caught about a 9 in crappie on a nice marabou jig I made. Caught several small fish, no keepers.

A really simple all pheasant wet fly

Ever caught any crappie or bass on one of those Robin? The pheasant wet fly I mean...

Robin I picked up some jig hooks from Barlows today and they came with a lead head, is yours lead and just painted or something different. Not that I really care, just curious. I'm gonna make some spiders tonight.

The ones I got were 1/124th oz. or 1/80th, now I can't remember. But they had plated gold or brass colored heads. I agree, it ought not to really matter.

Hey Hook,
Beautiful work.

They come with lead, silver, and gold heads (silver and gold slightly more expensive). 1/124th oz is the size recommended in the Cap Spiders video. Mike says the 1/80 oz are a bit too heavy and sink too fast to give the rubber legs the proper action. Mike also ties his rubber legs in on the same side of the hook as the hook eye, while Robin tied his in on the back.

OK, I can't resist. "I'm bad. You don't want to get mixed up with a guy like me. I'm a loner. A rebel."

This is radically off topic but who knows what movie that's from?

Pee Wee's Big Adventure From the Internet site

Winnah! We have been wearing out that old VHS cassette since the oldest was a baby.

Mountain River Fly Shop offers Jig Heads in a variety of colors including Matallic Mountain River
They offer free shipping over 50.00 and have a large shop with a great variety of products and no tax and really great people.

Robin, I think the legs on the bottom will tip the fly down at a greater tilt and it will not glide like it does with them on top, Mike tied them the way he did for a reason after years of trials.
Steve

P.S. When in Barlow's always ask for more or go by the catlog, I was in there on Monday and he went to the back and got some 1/124 lead heads for me as none on the shelf, I color them with fpolish, as I am currently experimenting with Fox Stalers ideas on Fishin' What They See fox

That makes sense Steve. I was being a lazy boy (rebel sounds cooler) Its harder to tie around that 90º bend.

Deer or elk tied to small dry fly hook with bright, thicker thread. (maybe a bit thicker than you'd intuitively select?)

I think thinner thread makes for a little neater fly but I suspect the fish don't care .. Good idea but I would flip the hair to cover the barb and make it run hook-up and weedless and maybe a little bigger hook..

That weedless tip will work well. I don't plan on fishing it for anything other than creek bluegills but still, that is a part of what lunchtime challenge is about, sharing ideas.

Robin, I love the fly. Let me know what all you catch on it now!