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Today’s #lunchties. Hot spot experiment.

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A purple soft hackle fly with a pink hot spot at the rear and a partridge hackle
February 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: size 8 olive Squirrelly Dans. Recipe in alt text

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Small olive streamer fly. Size 8 Mustad 9672 tan sparkle braid body, tail and “hackle” olive micro pine squirrel. Olive 6/0 Uni-Thread
February 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: experiments with micro pine squirrel zonkers. I like the results with palmering them like hackle!

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Four small streamer flies made with orange chenille, black micro pine squirrel zonkers and orange hen hackle
February 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Today’s #lunchties: emu hackle. Recipe in alt text.

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A soft hackle wet fly using emu. Hook Mustad S82AP heavy nymph size 12, yellow ochre Shetland Spindrift yarn, natural emu hackle, UTC 70 denier hopper yellow
March 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Today’s #lunchties another old reliable, the peacock and starling. Recipe in alt text

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Peacock and starling fly, size 14 hook, brassie size chartreuse wire, peacock herl, starling hackle, black 16/0 veevus thread
March 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: Mink “Mohawk” Zonkers. Recipe in alt text

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A small white zonker style streamer. Hook: Mustad 9672 size 8. White mink zonker strip. Pearl sparkle braid. Pink laser dub. White uni thread 6/0. Head colored with black sharpie marker.
February 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: taste the rainbow! Killer bugs with a variety of Shetland Spindrift yarns. I honestly don’t remember the names of all these colors.

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A green killer bug fly A purple killer bug fly A yellow killer bug fly A brown killer bug fly
February 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: more mink zonkers. This time with soft hackle collar. Recipe in alt text. #flytying #flyfishing
A small brown Zonker style streamer fly. Recipe: hook Mustad 9672 size 8. Brown mink Zonker strip. Root beer sparkle braid. Brown hen hackle collar. Burnt orange 6/0 uni-Thread.
February 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Today’s #lunchties: prototype super-micro “Intruder” thingy. #wetflies #softhackles #flyfishing #flytying #troutspey #tenkara
A wet fly with two soft partridge soft hackles, a smaller at the rear and a larger at the front. A wet fly with two soft partridge soft hackles, a smaller at the rear and a larger at the front.
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Catch of the day, Super Bowl edition, 2 rainbows in the net, 1 lost right at net, 2 long distance C&Rs, several more grabs, 1 ambitious chub. Also the usual trash clean up. The hot spot soft hackle from last week’s #lunchties was the winner today.

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February 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Today’s #lunchties are nothing fancy, just replenishing my stock of size 14 Stewart Black Spiders. Recipe in alt text.

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A Stewart black spider wet fly. Size 14 hook, brown UTC 70 denier, starling feather. The trick is to twist the fragile starling feather around the tying thread and then wrap. This reinforces the feather. The scruffier the better.
March 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Today's #lunchties: more flymphy stuff. #flytying #flyfishing #BlueFly #FlySky #troutspey
A soft hackle fly with a red butt, a green body with gold wire rib, a dark hare's ear thorax and a partridge hackle A flymph type soft hackle fly with a sparsely dubbed green hare's ear body and partridge hackle
January 31, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: The Emu Returns Again Part 3: The Threequel. As promised size 16 emu crackleback and a size 10 emu sakasa kebari. Recipes in alt text #flytying #flyfishing #tenkara #simpleflies #guideflies
Size 16 emu crackleback. Size 16 Daiichi 1740, yellow laser dub, peacock herl, emu feather hackle UTC 70 denier hopper yellow Size 10 emu sakasa kebari size 10 Ahrex Curved Nymph barbless hook, UTC 70 denier hopper yellow, emu hackle, shrimp pink ice dub, oyster Shetland Spindrift yarn
March 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: you guessed it more emu cracklebacks! My sources indicate that the holographic blue size 16 is cash money. If

I’ve started stripping the fibers from one side of the emu feather. This makes a more photogenic fly, but I doubt the fish care.
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Size 16 Holographic Blue Crackleback fly. Hook Daiichi 1740 size 16, thread Veevus 16/0 black, body UTC small holographic blue tinsel, back is 3 strands peacock herl, hackle is natural emu, one side of feather stripped
March 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: more zonkers! This one is a big boy version for the wipers. Recipe in alt text.

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A barred black chartreuse zonker streamer. Recipe: Mustad C70SAP size 1; Tail: Hareline Tiger Barred Rabbit Strips Mahi Green Black Over Chartreuse; Body: rabbit strip palmered. Lateral scale flash 1733; Collar: Whiting Freshwater Streamer saddle hackle black and chartreuse; Head: Senyo’s Laser Dub black. Thread: UTC 140 Peacock Blue.
February 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: killer bug + hackle: Chris Stewart Killer Kebari, Gartside Sparrow, soft hackle scud, sakasa kebari. All in basic oyster Spindrift + partridge. Next up: on beyond oyster!

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Chris Stewart’s Killer Kebari. A killer bug with a partridge soft hackle. A gartside sparrow variant killer bug. Partridge tail and hackle, partridge after shaft for head. A scud soft hackle killer bug on a curved hook. A killer bug with a sakasa (reverse) soft hackle and a peacock ice dub collar. Also on a curved hook
February 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: white bass kebari! Yes you read that right. One of the streams I fish during the spawn run is quite small and doesn’t have hybrids, so a tenkara rod works quite well.

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A chartreuse, blue and black kebari fly. Recipe: Daiichi 2151 size 8, peacock blue UTC Ultra thread, fluorescent chartreuse Sento’s Laser Dub, hackle is Whiting Freshwater Streamer saddle, black/chartreuse. A white bass in a landing net next to a tenkara rod
February 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Today’s #lunchties Partridge and Imitation Royal.

Recipe in alt text

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A green and red partridge soft hackle fly in a fly tying vise against a tan background. The body of the fly is green/red/green and the hackle is white with dark spots Recipe: Hook: Daiichi 1740 size 10 Thread: UTC Ultra Thread red, 70-denier Body: peacock black Ice Dub, tying thread, peacock black Ice Dub Hackle: Hungarian Partridge Head: peacock black Ice Dub
February 7, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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My #lunchties are exercises in working with the small amount of materials I can take to work in this container seen here on my home tying desk. This coming week I think I’ll try working with pine squirrel and mink zonkers for mini-streamers/leeches.

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A small plastic tote with a blue lid on a fly tying bench
February 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Today’s #lunchties I shall call “None More Beige”. Recipe in alt text of second photo.

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A fly tying vise holding beige soft hackle fly with a white wire rib. The backups purple. Materials for fly. Top row left to right: UTC Uktra Wire White size medium; Senyo’s Laser Yarn dubbing tan; a ginger soft hackle feather from a hen saddle. Bottom row: UTC Ultra Thread Wood Duck color, 70 denier; Daiichi 1740 up eye hook, size 10; Hook box.
February 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: Seaducer. It’s never too early to start prepping for the white bass/wiper run! I tie a lot of simple flies because the waters I fish are loaded with snags. This recipe is just saddle hackle and a little flash about. See alt text for recipe.

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A chartreuse and black Seaducer streamer fly. Hook: Mustad C70SAP, size 4. Chartreuse Uni-Thread, 6/0. Tail and body chartreuse/black Whiting Freshwater Streamer saddle hackle. Lateral Scale Flashabou 1733.
February 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Today’s #lunchties are a new twist on the tried and true Ozarks fly pattern: the emu crackleback. The first one is tied big for detail on a size 10 hook but I’m going to go down to 16 as those seem to work best at the trout parks. The second is size 14.

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Tan crackleback fly size 10. Hook Daiichi 1740 size 10. Body is ice dub, UV tan. Back is 3 peacock herls. Hackle is natural emu. Thread UTC 70 denier hopper yellow. Purple crackleback fly. Hook Daiichi 1740 size 14. Body purple laser dub. Back 2 peacock herls. Hackle natural emu. Thread UTC 70 denier hopper yellow.
March 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Today’s #lunchties: the trusty old Utah Killer Bug. With a variety of yarn/thread/wire you can come up with a bunch of Killer Bug variants, although it’s pretty hard to beat Sawyer’s OG or the Utah update. Recipe in alt text

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A Utah Killer Bug fly. It is a tan cylindrical body with no hackle and a red head. Recipe Hook: Daiichi 1740 Size 14 Thread (head and underbody) Red UTC 70 denier Body Shetland Spindrift Wool Yarn, 2 ply, color Oyster
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Today’s #lunchties if you see a pattern, yes I love wet flies. Tenkara for upstream pinpoint drifts and manipulation; and trout Spey for downstream swinging. The same flies work well for both applications.

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An olive soft hackle wet fly in a fly tying vise against a purple background. The materials used in tying this fly on a purple background. Top row left to right: a clump of 6-8 natural pheasant tail fibers; Shetland Spindrift wool yarn, color 231 Bracken; Ice Dub dubbing, olive; an olive hackle feather from an olive hen saddle, lower fibers stripped from stem. Bottom row left to right: UTC Ultra Thread 70-denier; a size 12 Mustad Heavy Nymph hook S82AP; hook container.
February 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Today’s #lunchties: variations on the gilding the lily of the basic Killer Bug theme. First is the OG tied with wire, and it gets more complex as we go. Do they work better? That's questionable other than the jig style. Tomorrow we add hackle!
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Oringinal recipe Killer Bug. Size 14 straight hook, body of Oyster spindrift yarn, tied without thread using red brassie size wire Killer Bug on a size 14 curved scud hook. Body of Oyster Spindrift yarn, tied with tan thread instead of wire. A Killer Bug Euronymph style jig fly. Size 16 jig hook, 2.8 mm iridescent tungsten slotted bead, tan thread, pink Senyo's laser yarn collar. A killer bug fly tied in the Euronymph jig style. Size 16 jig hook, 2.8 mm iridescent slotted tungsten bead. Body is Oyster Spindrift yarn, rib is red brassie size wire, collar is cinnamon pink Ice Dub.
February 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM