BilletHead

Thanks Nick, No the head dubbing determines the color. Usually do dark on top and white below. Also for anyone that might like to do these fox tails can be ordered dyed all kinds of colors. If you look hard enough on the internet fox tails natural colors and white can be bought pretty cheap. One fox tail can do hundreds of these flys. The died tails can get pricy. Those places you can get half and quarter tails.

Was texting @Ham back and forth this morning about this Blue Cat I caught on the fly last spring. We were discussing the fly I caught it on. Decided to do a quick step by step. Pictures suck so bear with me here. B10s#2 hook into the vice. Take a clump of fox tail and hold by the tips. Pull out most of the underfur and retain it. Tie it on the hook, You can wrap some lead or not in front of the tail. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Do both if you want it to sink and just use floating line do it and if not using a sink tip will get it down. A bit of flash on the sides of the tail and cover your lead with tying thread. Create a dubbing loop. Remember the retained underfur from the tail? Well mix this with some flash of your choice. This can be done with your hands, but I made a mixer. Has a little hole in top and a place cut out of the side covered with cloth. Shoot some air from compressor in top for a bit and it mixes real nice. Create a dubbing brush by working dubbing between fingers to align tips and insert into dubbing loop. Spin it up. Wrap this forward to a place where you will create the head and catch off. Head is dubbing again such as sensos lazer dub. I again work some with fingers and then divide in half and catch the center with tying thread. Do a clump on top and bottom. Pull each clump tight up on top and bottom to create a thin profile fly. Work tying thread to front and whip finish, Its ugly I know but now brush it all out and trim to desired shape. Super glue on eyes and if you have it drop UV glue on each eye. Drag some of the glue onto edges of eyes into the dubbed head and light it up to cure the glue. Brush more and trim more if you want. It's done, Here are a few. Picture did not resize well, When wet they streamline up sone but on the pause stripping fluff back out. I really like these and can be bigger or smaller by adjusting hook sizes and material length. To date bass, walleye, crappie, white bass, hybrids, channel and blue cat, drum, gar, bluegill and green sunfish. All I remember at the moment. Anything that will eat a minnow will eat this thing.

Yes it does. Picture kind of bleached out. It's belly is orange. Best day was on the little Sac. Crappie like it too.

The dozen done. A cluster of midge clusters. My poor eyes after coming off the Clouser Binge.

Yes, sir right below the dam in zone 2 underneath the sycamore on the east side. Super when the Japanese beetles are out .

There it is! Thanks. He looks happy. I'm thinking 5.2 pounds.

Those Florida bass can get huge. This one must be pretty small, I cannot even see it.

Thanks for posting. We need new blood on here and looking forward to your posts.

Body is just another hackle trimmed up. The first inside hacke does not have to be anything fancy or sized to hook size.

You bet Mike. They really work well.

On a buzzball blitz today. Great all-around pattern mainly a midge cluster bit also represents other insects. I have done really well catching trout everywhere we have been. The micro fish John and Ham go after take them crazy well too. I'm doing 16s right now.

Yes keep what I need off of what I harvest mostly bucktail. Go through a bunch of white. I did a tutorial of how I prep them here on OAF a couple three years back. Do not dye them yet and probably will not. The colored ones I have ordered or better yet hit a fly shop so I can root through the packages to get the best ones. Eyes and hooks order some and also try to support fly shops I visit. Here are a few bucktails I have done and more ratholed. Some still in freezer,

Nope just jammed them in. Maybe I should do a Clouser Christmas tree during the holidays.

Box stocked really well. Time to tie something else .

Nope I voted with @Terrierman you are the new sheriff.

I get that if you don't want to travel. I am telling you if you want a good time and a fighting fish and closest place is the Spring River it will be worth the drive.

How close are you to Oklahoma TJM?

And grilled!

No you don't always find temporate bass in heavy current. When I explained I was just trying to explain how to use lines and lead eyed clousers to get them down. I know places they stack up in slow to moderate flows where you can use floating lines. No boat needed just a short walk.

Good grief.

Not only that the perps drained my oil out of the engine. (I wanna cuss here). Woe be to the one I catch doing this to me or my fishing partner.

I can detect the flavor in walleye some.

Do taste better than crappie which have the flavor of what you bread them in. White bass have a taste but should be eaten before the Year Is up or it gets stronger in flavor. Right out of the water is the best. Does make a great chowder. Meat is solid and doesn't dissolve while cooking.

Working hard worrying about when the first run will happen, where it will happen and not missing it. The rest Is a gravy train with biskets and gravy. The hardest part is wearing yourself out catching them.