Tube: one yellow and one blue

Posted on 14 December, 201314 December, 2013 by Håvard Eide salmon tube

Got some really long Templedog patches the other day and with the one above here I finally got it slim enough: one thing I have learned the hard way the last couple of weeks is that I add way too much hair when I start on the underwing, ending up with a fly that is too big. This one also got a nice split yellow/black body as you can see in the picture below (the tinsel isn’t aligned properly though…)

Looking at the tube flies I have created the last weeks I also see that I tend to make massively large flies! So: I will try to create some smaller tubes to learn to control that aspect of tying on a tube as well: big fly is not equal to big fish!

Tube: Red tag

Posted on 13 December, 201310 December, 2013 by Håvard Eide red tag temple dog tube

I have fished with red tag many times after trout & grayling, so I don’t see why a scaled up tube-version shouldn’t work on salmon! Trying to keep it as simple as I can, I was tempted to add a red collar, but resisted and added two pieces of flash instead to match the silver wrapping in the body.

Spring Creek Midge

Posted on 12 December, 201312 December, 2013 by Håvard Eide

Hook: TMC 2457 #14
Thread: Sheer 14/0 green
Body: Sheer 14/0 Green, UTC ultra wire gold
Thorax: Hareline Hare’s Ear Plus Dark Olive
Wing: CDC

I get a lot of inspiration following various forums, facebook, planet.dryfly.me and other places. The other day Hammer Creek Fly Fishing posted a video on G+ with his version of the spring creek midge. I have had many bead colors in some jars for a time that I haven’t tied anything with, so I tied up a green variant with different bead colors to see how they turned out. The beads I bought at a craft store for next-to-nothing ( I always pop into the craft shops to see if I can find anything to tie with ), and I should have a lifetime supply available.

These midges are a great pattern to start out with, and once you get the hang of it you can produce a large number very quickly!

Black bead:

Red bead:

Orange/Brown bead:

Yellow Bead:

All colors gathered:

I have one jar for each color of the ones you see in this post:

Tube: Orange tag variation

Posted on 12 December, 20139 December, 2013 by Håvard Eide

A variation of the tube from two days ago: this time on a green tube and iwth a disc. You might see some more tubes in the following days: when I start exploring new material/types/whatever I tend to stick with it for a while to get the hang of it ( and repetition, always repeating a pattern to see what I can do to improve it )

Tube: white sunray shadows

Posted on 11 December, 20138 December, 2013 by Håvard Eide

One thing I always do when starting something new is to take the most basic idea, then repeat it, and repeat it! This weekend the snow finally started to fall here in Oslo so I got myself some coffee and went through a bunch of sunray shadows just to practice tying on a tube and to see how they come out in the end.

All tubes have white/black Temple Dog and peacock on top of the wing. Can’t get much simpler than this, but it makes for a very good practice since this (apparently: I haven’t fished with them yet) is a very good pattern

Author: Håvard Eide

Tube: one yellow and one blue

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Spring Creek Midge

Tube: Orange tag variation

Tube: white sunray shadows

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