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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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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