Thank you!! really enjoy this pattern. The floss roughed up worked well for a substitute. I'm quite pleased with the result. I may tie it that way more often.
Thev very vfirst time i tied a Salmon Fly, was in a swap. We had to pick a wet fly, then turn it into a Spey Pattern. I always joined swaps that pushed me, so in a jumped! The wet pattern was a Mallard and Claret. My own pattern had no name . It took some doing and i had to buy a book about it, but i managed 12 decent flies!! I really enjoyed making them.
Beautiful fly and one of my favourites, after tying my 1st one of these I fell in love with Spey flies.
I like the effect of the roughed up floss 👍
Thank you!! really enjoy this pattern. The floss roughed up worked well for a substitute. I'm quite pleased with the result. I may tie it that way more often.
Thev very vfirst time i tied a Salmon Fly, was in a swap. We had to pick a wet fly, then turn it into a Spey Pattern.
I always joined swaps that pushed me, so in a jumped!
The wet pattern was a Mallard and Claret. My own pattern had no name . It took some doing and i had to buy a book about it, but i managed 12 decent flies!! I really enjoyed making them.
beautiful!! Great skill you show here. Do you also fish these flies?
I do fish the speys for steelhead. The classics i have not fished yet but I intend to next season.
Where did you get the heron feather?
There is a seller on ebay that regularly has Heron for sale. Search under "Salmon Fly Tying" you should be able to find it pretty easily.
One can learn a lot from you. Chapeu
YES! spey flies should be sparse