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Post by JasonGreenway on Sept 27, 2012 21:09:05 GMT -5
Could anyone recommend a few easy too tie streamer patterns for Salmon and Steelhead? I am looking for a few patterns tied with common materials like marabou, some ostrich hurl, Bucktail, and some dubbing.
Any suggestions or help would be great. Thanks.
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Post by NickConwall on Sept 27, 2012 22:26:22 GMT -5
Try the "Black Ghost" fly, it's easy to tie on any streamer/spey hooks you may have and the wing can be anything really (feather tips, marabou, bucktail...etc.) I have caught just about everything you can catch with variations of this fly.
A great example can be found if you go back & click on CHARLIES FLYS AND PHOTOS and look under his "Flys for Trout" section, it's about 6 rows down.
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Post by chucklarsen on Sept 28, 2012 6:30:54 GMT -5
For easy & effective, it's hard to beat a good ole wooly bugger! You can play around with colors, beads & flash to make it interesting. I personally love to tie up bunny leaches & zonkers, the provide a lot of movement in the water.
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Post by Cornelius on Sept 28, 2012 10:29:01 GMT -5
Hey man: Classic salmon fly the Undertaker is quite an easy tie.... I've modified it as a psuedo-spey...you might want to give it a try... Good hunting!! Cornelius
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Post by JasonGreenway on Oct 9, 2012 20:05:11 GMT -5
I am working on all of these. Any other suggestions. Thanks.
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Post by Brent Elliott on Oct 9, 2012 21:30:56 GMT -5
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Post by B.Ingersoll on Oct 10, 2012 11:40:36 GMT -5
Jason, My vote is for this one - s576.photobucket.com/albums/ss203/OakOrchardFlyShop/STEELHEAD%20SWINGER/?albumview=slideshowAlthough it is a tube fly, it only requires a cheap HMH vice conversion gadget that I am sure the shop has and holds HMH copper and alum. tubes very well. Copper and Alum. tubes are cheap. You will find tubes out last, hooked flies 10:1 for payback investment. You can run the hook, point up or down. With a bunny strip fly you don't have to build in the proper keel to ride upright,proper,true on a tube. The simple Steelhead Swinger on a tube, with flat tinsel braid and a schlappen collar is as simple and effective as it gets. Personally, I would tie black over purple, gray over white and a camo combo of brown/olive for starters. You can also make nice egg sucking leaches example - all black with a chartreuse thread built up head, finished with several coats of Sally. With the tubes larger diameter the thread / egg head will be simular to a bead in size. The schlappen can be a beard/throat as shown with the wing pulled over or as a collar over the bunny for a leach look. You can also use clean tipped marabou rather than schlappen, over collar style for a "bunny~bou" tube that is highly mobile. Very consistent fish getters, long lasting tube benefits, simple and fast to tie, versatile tie style, cheap considering how long they last minus the hook. 1" tubes for starters. Copper for faster sink rate. Alum. for standard sink rate similar to heavy wire streamer hook fly.
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Post by SteveKowalski on Oct 10, 2012 12:49:17 GMT -5
wooly buggers White is most important - If I could only have one fly. I carry from #10 less that an inch long up to # 2 at 4 inch long tie as many different ones as you can (good practice) -long marabou tail & short tail - long bushy hackle & short fine hackle -fuzzy poofy bodys all the way to tinsle or thin flashy braid body - weightless, bead head, bead chain eyes, lead dumbell eyes, & big fat cone heads oh yeah, don't forget some with eyes & wings "the clouser bugger" oakorchardflies.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=membersflies&action=display&thread=1072
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Post by SteveKowalski on Oct 10, 2012 12:52:11 GMT -5
Cornelius, Awesome undertaker pseudo! Nice hackle (died ringneck?)
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Post by JasonGreenway on Oct 10, 2012 19:30:16 GMT -5
Sounds like I am going to stop by the shop and pick up some Tubes and materils ASAP. Both of those seem easy enough to tie and look great. As far as buggers go - I am starting to get pretty good at them but would like some reccomendations for the best steelhead bugger hooks?
Also any idea what that Tube Conversion Kit would cost me?
Thanks for all the feedbck guys!
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