New ties

[tjm]

@Nick AdamsIt's simple fly, shouldn't need a video, but since you are interested, I dug out Fly Tying and Fly Fishing For Bass And Panfish and copied Tom Nixon's recipes as he wrote  them.
 

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Tail-Lemon colored Wood Duck side feather fibers.
Body-Oxford gray yarn with a yellow yarn belly stripe.
Hackle-Grizzly, palmer and sparse.
Head-Black
Hook-#8, #10,#12, #14, 4XL, T.D.E.
 This fly should be weighted with 10 turns of #25 lead wire.

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Tail-Lemon colored Wood Duck side feather fibers.
Body-Dark green yarn with a yellow yarn belly stripe.
Hackle-Grizzly, palmer and sparse.
Head-Black
Hook-#8, #10,#12, #14, 4XL, T.D.E.
 This fly should be weighted with 10 turns of #25 lead wire.

I never did find the #25 lead wire, I use the lead core from trolling line because it's cheap and 10 colors will tie a lifetime of wet flies one sie its all hooks because the larger hooks take more length of wire to cover them thus adding more weight. So in lieu  of video; start the thread (an eye length behind the hook eye so that you have head room at the end) and cover the shank, wrap lead,  cover lead with thread, tie in tail, tie in hackle, tie in both pieces of yarn, wrap dark yarn forward and tie down with a couple turns of thread, pull the yellow yarn forward and tie down, palmer the hackle tie down and complete the head. You can build many varieties of wet woolly worms exactly the same with any variations of color or stripes desired. You can also leave the lead out and fish woolly worms as dry flies (think Crackle Back and Griffith's Gnat) centuries ago this type fly was called a "Palmer", fished on top til it sank and then fished as a wet. I believe "palmer" was a British name for a variety of caterpillar

[kjackson]

Here's the latest, a Hopping John tied on a #4 Fenwick worm hook.  I've also tied it in white, but I'm having trouble getting the zonker strip to lay right.  Open to other suggestions for must-have colors.

[Nick Adams]

With the hook shape and the eyes, won't it ride barb up? I'd put the strip on the inside of the hook.

[Flysmallie]

11 minutes ago, Nick Adams said:

With the hook shape and the eyes, won't it ride barb up?

It should. The ones I tie like that on jig hook ride hook point up. It’s a good thing. 

[Nick Adams]

26 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

It should. The ones I tie like that on jig hook ride hook point up. It’s a good thing. 

Agreed, so I would put the rabbit strip in the inside of the hook and poke a hole through it. I think it would lay right then. My $.02

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Nick Adams said:

Agreed, so I would put the rabbit strip in the inside of the hook and poke a hole through it. I think it would lay right then. My $.02

Correct. Like this one. 
 

Here’s a better look with her skirt pulled up. 
 

[Flysmallie]

This one has been in the vice a few days. 
 

[Nick Adams]

That orange guy is cool. I do not have the patience for deer hair.

[tjm]

I thought "Hopping John" was a foam cricket.

[Flysmallie]

1 hour ago, Nick Adams said:

 I do not have the patience for deer hair.

Sure you do.