New ties

[Nick Adams]

Looks like a combo of a wooly worm, girdle bug, and/or pat's rubber legs. I like it. Did you guys say this was a Tyron invention on another thread?

Here's the woollies. I ended up with olive, blank, brown and tan. No idea what size. Just some "panfish" hooks I had from Wal-Mart. 

 

 

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, Nick Adams said:

Did you guys say this was a Tyron invention on another thread?

That's where I first got turned on to it.  For Chuck, it was supposedly a good trout and smallmouth fly...... but I never did well with it until I scaled it down and used it on bluegill.   

[Gavin]

I'll post up some of Chuck's this weekend...Lots of old killers in that style...Dick Ryan's CR Gold, Chuck Kraft's CK nymph, Larry Nixon's .56 er. Ratty ties that work.

 

[Nick Adams]

2 hours ago, Gavin said:

I'll post up some of Chuck's this weekend

Thanks Gavin.

[kjackson]

On 1/21/2022 at 12:30 PM, fishinwrench said:

I gave up on the "Bully", but it did teach me the slow-sink method that is THE BOMB when it comes to flyfishing for bigger bluegill.   

I fish a #12 BUBfly in the same fashion as you would a Bully Spider.....and it is hands down my #1 subsurface bluegill fly.   The secret is to keep the rod tip about 8" above the surface and keep just a tiny bit of tension against the fly.... Pay close attention to the angle of the fly line from rod tip to water surface and maintain that angle as the fly slowly sinks.  Then set the hook when that angle changes any at all.  A bobber "strike indicator" will not show those bites.  

It's an absolutely deadly technique for bigger gills.    

Also, in every body of water I have ever fished for bluegill.....all BLACK (black thread, black body, black legs, and black hackle) has always outperformed every other combination of colors I've ever tried.   I don't even carry any other colors anymore. 

This fly intrigued me, so I did a bit of research on its origin, and decided I needed to tie a few. The first all-black versions looked so good--they would be excellent Montana flies--that I added a dark-olive version. Then I thought an all-white version would be good for crappie, and then... I think I'm addicted.  Will winter never end?

[tjm]

On 1/21/2022 at 5:05 PM, Gavin said:

Larry Nixon's .56 er.

Tom Nixon's .56%er used to be one of my favorite flies.. I need to tie a few, it's been years since I thought it. In his book or a long ago article it was said that like soap the purest a dry fly fisherman could be is 99.44%, his fly was to cover that other bit of time. 

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30 minutes ago, tjm said:

Tom Nixon's .56%er used to be one of my favorite flies.. I need to tie a few, it's been years since I thought it. In his book or a long ago article it was said that like soap the purest a dry fly fisherman could be is 99.44%, his fly was to cover that other bit of time. 

There’s times on the white that fly just gets hammered.  Doesn’t the original pattern have some yellow in it?

[tjm]

You can see yellow in the tail and the belly of this web image (not my tie)

I'd have to check  the book, it's not in front of me right now, but as I recall lemon wood duck, grey wool body with yellow wool belly stripe over 10-12 turns of lead wire. I left my tail a bit more sparse the image and striped one side of the hackle before winding it. A bit belly wouldn't hurt, but like any fly every one i tie is slightly different.

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13 minutes ago, tjm said:

You can see yellow in the tail and the belly of this web image

I'd have to check  the book, it's not in front of me right now, but as I recall lemon wood duck, grey wool body with yellow wool belly stripe over 10-12 turns of lead wire. I left my tail a bit more sparse the image and striped one side of the hackle before winding it. A bit belly wouldn't hurt, but like any fly every one i tie is slightly different.

Yep.  Very nice!!

[Nick Adams]

Very cool. I'll look for a video.