Baby Bass

Yesterday after a week or two waiting in agony, my Baitfish box from the Fly Tyers Dungeon arrived. The box comes with everything you need to tie all the baitfish patterns you need to chase pike, bass, and saltwater species, basically any predator species. I was going warmwater fishing later and the bass were spawning so I decided to tie a baby bass fly based off a rapala.

Material list
Top Layer- Olive baitfish Congo hair
Middle Layer- Black Congo hair
Bottom Layer- White Congo hair
Flash-H2O twist
Eyes- Red 1/8 inch 3D eyes
* can be weighted with .015-.030 lead free wire
Hook- size 6 bass bug hook

 *trimming

This Crappie smashed the baby bass near the shore!

This guy inhaled it when it hit the surface in 4 feet of water!

Tight Lines!

The D Rib Caddis

The D rib Caddis is a very useful and effective fly. You can heavily weight it and use as a point fly in a Czech/euro nymph rig or just use the bead for a dropper fly in a Czech/euro nymph rig. You can also make this fly into an attractor pattern and use different colors and some flashy dubbing.

Ingredient List:
Hook- light wire scud hook sz. 12-18
Thread- 70-140 denier thread color to match D rib
Abdomen- D rib in this case chartreuse  but you can change it up
Thorax- Black Caddis life  cycle dubbing
Bead- Gold tungsten sized to hook

 Crush the barb and place the hook firmly into your vice so only the tip is showing

 Run your thread to about 1/4 of the way down the hook shank, snip your thread and wrap back up.

 Tie down your D-rib so that the flat side is facing the shank, then wrap back forward.

 Wrap your D rib up the shank to about an eight of an inch behind your bead, and firmly tie it down.

 When you go to snip the D rib, pull the D rib taught and then snip so that there is barely a snub left.

Once your D rib is cut, wrap a thin dubbing noodle of the black Caddis life cycle dubbing.

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Wrap the noodle up to the bead so it pushes against it.

Whip finish, use head cement, and your fly is ready to put in your box!

Tightlines

Sick, Tired and nearly Christmas

Well, what can I say I'm sick. But the upside of that is that I will be spending more time at the vise, and putting out plenty of step by step ties, and with the arrival of Christmas, there will be plenty of reviews of fly fishing and tying gear. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all.

'Tis the Season

Normally around this time of the year I'd be tying some trout flies, dreaming of the next time I could get on the river and use them. This year I decided to make a change and try tying some big ol' streamers for bass and pike. Most of these patterns are of my own design yet heavily influenced by some I have seen. All of them are tied on some hooks I used to use for spin fishing until I switched over to fly fishing and tying.

The marauder

The Polar Fiber bait fish( looks an awful lot like a swim bait, am I right?)

The Brown Trout colored Mcfluff

The Perch Mcfluff