Been playing with Balsa wood. Those eyes gave me fits! I messed up several before I was happy. They are made from aluminum foil and electrical tape. I need to open wallet and order some 3d eyes I guess. I'm always trying to do things the hard way. I'm not sure what direction to go in now, but I guess I'll do some marabou, hackle and silli legs .

finished

Looks good.

Lazy Sunday. Sitting at the vice.

I really tied these for bass...but I bet the trout would like them too. I bought some different color strips to make these....just trying out new color combos. I got one in mind I want to tie. Maybe tonight I can attack it. Just trying to fine tune which colors I want.

Alright, here she is. I had to ask my wife to pick the colors...I was drawing a blank.

Looks like a Bull Bream Pattern to me.

Hard to see the purple belly in the pic, but it's there.

mixed up some homemade dubbing for our gillfriends

can you guess the purple ingredient?

Bristles off a vacuum cleaner? Possibly the Bristle Brand.

Dollar store brush bristles.

No, not bristles.

it's satin threads.

Well vacation is over, and I finally had time to restock the fly box after the Texas Expo put a pretty good dent in it:



So, I spent a little time this weekend tying up these, but I think I may still need a few more to fill up the fly box.

Looking good, Rex!
I still have a few of Big Dale's Psychedelic Spiders. I need to find some of the parti-colored foam for my own stash.

Kirk

Thanks Kirk, yep, finding the foam is the hard part.

Green Weenie out of Fly Tyers magazine this quarter. I couldn't resist and found me a cleaning glove to cut up. More patterns to come! BTW they said this is killer on trout.