Monday, February 28, 2011

More Flies!

A few more flies that I've recently tied:

The BlueWing Olive (Tied from the LL Bean Blue Wing Olive material kit -made by Spirit River)





Foam Beatle


Light Foam Beatle


                                       Collection of Blue Wing Olives and Dry Adams



Collection of Dry Flies 



Streamers and Nymphs




Sunday, January 30, 2011

First Flies

Well, here are some of my very first attempts at tying flies:

The Dry Adams


Fur Ant


Black Wooley Bugger


Caddis Larvae



CDC Caddis


Spotted Egg


Inchworm


Emerging Larvae


Goof Off

Whacky Wally

Mystery Fly


Knatt


Olive Wooley Bugger


Prince Nymph


Salmon Egg


San Juan Worm

Stone Fly


Stretch Tubbing Scud

Fly Tying Workstation

I bought a fly tying kit from LL Bean but before starting to tie my first flie I thought I needed a decent work station.

Build mostly from baltic birch plywood and cherry for the sliding trays, it fits nicely under my keyboard.
There's also plenty of room for a 2nd drawer to contain the mess or additional fly tying supplies.



Plenty of room for the materials that were included with the kit not to mention what additional items that I've purchased:

The sliding tray near the front collects cuttoffs from the fly tying process:

And it removes for easy disposal:





Thursday, January 6, 2011

New Blog

Well, I guess after all these years it's time to start my own blog!

I'll use this as a place to share my interests (what steals my time away from my wonderfull wife)


Since I happen to have pictures of my FJ Cruiser in OBX I'll start there...

... click on the FJ cruiser link above