1st fly tied

[BilletHead]

             Well, lookie there Daryk. Satisfaction will just get better and better as you start catching fish on those.  They will work just fine.

[Johnsfolly]

@Daryk Campbell Sr those nymphs look great buddy! Great job. Now we need to see the fish you will catch with them.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie.  I will have to work on this one.  I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be.  One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue.  Oops.  

[snagged in outlet 3]

7 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

 

Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie.  I will have to work on this one.  I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be.  One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue.  Oops.  

 

My experience is, the more tore up a fly gets the better it works sometimes. I believe it was Leonard Wright who wrote about old time European fly fishers who loaned out newly tied flies to be fished by someone else and then brought back to them to use.  

[BilletHead]

7 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie.  I will have to work on this one.  I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be.  One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue.  Oops.  

            OOps will happen but less and less as you go forward. I still oops. Another tip less is more in tying. We as tyers sometimes tend to overdress. 

[kjackson]

9 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

Elk hair caddis was this weeks tie.  I will have to work on this one.  I did not buy or make a hair stacker, so they are not as good as they should be.  One I actually covered the eye of the hook with thread and glue.  Oops.  

I used a .45 ACP shell for years as a hair stacker then graduated to a .45 Long Colt.  Both worked better (as I recall) than the "real" hair stacker I eventually bought. It's either that or my tying skills need serious refreshing...which, thinking about it, is the case. 

[tjm]

22 hours ago, Daryk Campbell Sr said:

.  Oops.  

I keep a single edge razor blade and a naked utility knife blade on a magnet at my vise base, when I bollix a tie up, I slice and scrape until the hook is clean and bare then start over. Some mistakes can be fixed with scissors like turning a dry into a nymph, but others require full overhaul.

I have never owned a real hair stacker, having learned to use fingers and palm before I ever saw a stacker. I have improvised spent brass, various tubing, caps from markers and such and I've bought at least a dozen tubes of chapstick/lipbalm with the express intent of making a stacker and never did. Sitting here now looking at a bottle spray eye glass lens cleaner and thinking the top cover of the spray pump would work.  Honestly, I just don't like working with deer hair and the hair wing  flies aren't "all that" in my opinion. Sure it's a skill one should have, but it's not one that I use often.

lipbalm stacker from web

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Tonight was Clouser Minnow. 

[fishinwrench]

You're definitely gettin' there. 👍 

[BilletHead]

            Hot dang Daryk! well done.