My latest hobby

**JHampton** · 10-07-2014, 08:58 PM

I have really gotten into fly fishing lately. After getting a nice rod, reel, and spending untold money at local fly shops I figured it was time to start tying my own flies. I've got a whole lot to learn yet so I started with the easiest patterns and since there hasn't been much of a hatch lately I figured these might work. A great way to wind down in the evenings.

**rocketman** · 10-07-2014, 09:05 PM

Not bad. Be careful it's very addictive !

**CLEMSONDUCKHUNTER** · 10-07-2014, 09:29 PM

2nd fly is the business on the Owyhee River in Oregon on BIG fish

**Chap** · 10-07-2014, 09:32 PM

Learn to tie a jap beetle variation and use that San Juan as your dropper. Deadly on bream, trout, crappie.

**JHampton** · 10-07-2014, 10:02 PM

My first attempt at a stone fly nymph

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**sugarflathunt** · 10-08-2014, 08:51 AM

Just moved to Colorado and have been doing a lot of fly fishing. It is way too addictive. That copper zebra midge has been on fire near Rocky Mountain National Park. Good looking flies. Keep it up

**murraywader** · 10-08-2014, 08:58 AM

looks good to me!

**SCcdp** · 10-08-2014, 09:08 AM

Those look great! Makes me want to break the vise back out and knock the dust off.

**SCWoody** · 10-08-2014, 09:17 AM

Looks great Hampton.

**mudminnow** · 10-08-2014, 09:22 AM

looks awesome, I switched the biot tails out for rubber legs on stoneflies and have been happier ever since. Biots do look prettier though. Keep tying!

**Spur hunter** · 10-09-2014, 09:47 AM

Nice ties. As far as hatches a Dun Caddis dry flies will always work here in SC, NC, TN whenever trout are looking up, a 16-18 grey bodied elk or deer hair caddis. Buying materials is a pain at the start and costly. If you need some "sponsorship" I'll gladly help out with samples.

**JHampton** · 10-09-2014, 09:39 PM

Caddis larva emerger, larva, and larva web spinner.

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**murraywader** · 10-09-2014, 10:38 PM

It's a nice and relaxing hobby, glad you are enjoying it!

**DJP** · 10-10-2014, 06:52 AM

I like it. That looks hard to do.

**BigBallin** · 10-10-2014, 07:39 AM

I have never tied but kinda wanted to. My dad made some of the most amazing flies/bugs I casted with a fly rod so I just kept using his. He did a lot of foam bugs that destroyed the Low Country freshwater fishery and a little for salt too. We'd usually use a bug or popper up top with a nymph about 2-3 ft below and the brimps couldn't resist it. And yes, we caught fish on the pigs.

http://www.flyanglersonline.com/flyt...062606fotw.php

http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying...ps/part165.php

http://flyanglersonline.com/lighterside/part182.php

**Palmetto Bug** · 10-11-2014, 10:49 AM

It's probably more of as saltwater thing but if you want to build a turner for making epoxy coated flies, start looking for an old microwave oven to cannibalize. The turntable motor works perfectly.

Here are some picts of mine.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9bfe05tbn...37.44.jpg?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1xd6w14ko5...38.00.jpg?dl=0

The output shaft of the motor is a little 1/2" long nylon stub. A 1/4" x 2" pipe nipple will screw over it for the shaft. Slide some rubbery stryofoam onto that and voila, a fly turner.