Excellent choice.

It is called a butterfly or long-fin carp. It is a variant of the common carp and is considered the same species as a common carp.

Your flies are a great start! They will catch fish.

A few from the last few days. I’m really starting to enjoy this. I just found out about a group that meets in San Antonio on Tuesdays to tie. I plan to check them out in the next few weeks and hopefully learn a thing or two.

Nice. Keep it up!

If you are looking for any instructional videos my favorites are from Charlie Craven on youtube.

This guy is great to watch LIVE - https://www.youtube.com/@tiesflies/videos

You are already tying some great flies. I can’t wait to see the pictures of the fish you catch with them.

Getting better….

Dang, that's tiny. Looking good too!

Looks like you have a knack for tying flies. The ones you’ve displayed here are very nice. I believe that I have that same vise, and I have tied saltwater flies & jigheads all the way to size 20 trout flies. Today I tied some WD40s in size 14 and 16. I have been tying a bunch of zebra midges in the same sizes.

Keep it up! You’ve definitely got talent!

JR

1st attempts at a hare’s ear nymph. Proportions are a little off, but should catch a trout