Author Topic: My 1st flies (Read 12834 times)

Homie · « **on:** June 28, 2013, 06:51:00 PM »

So after finally getting myself a vice and some material, i sat down and tied my 1st few flies.

I spent hours on youtube and picked Rory's brain and these are the result...

My version of a PTN Hotspot
Partridge tail
Peacock hurl abdomen and flashback with a red wire rib
Green dubbing and a brass bead
also did a smaller one without the bead

Mistakes....
I should have tied this further back and used a bit more flashback..

Next up, I tried a walkers-killer

Hackle fibres for a tail, read wrapping and partridge feathers

Then it was just a test off different techniques.....
Marabou tail with flash, chenille body, red eyes and a dubbed thorax....

And here they are....

Advice and critique welcome !

Homie · « **Reply #1 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:17:01 PM »

sorry for the hand behind the pics... light was coming in from behind

isivuba · « **Reply #2 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:32:54 PM »

Let me be the first to tell you that what you doing is wrong.........wrong because you have been holding out on us hey?
Homes absebloodlylutley AWESOME!! if this is your first time I do'nt want to see after a couple of weeks.

and the cred is for sharing not for holding out on us.

Now just to catch a

or two.

icstuff · « **Reply #3 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:39:42 PM »

Just shows you that trout will eat any thing but you do have some nice hooks there!

I hope you land some nice fish one those - The feeling that you get landing your first fish on a fly that that you tied... just report back on what you landed please

Lenny · « **Reply #4 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:40:52 PM »

Very nice , I also had a blast , on my vice a couple of years ago to .

Keep en coming !

MIKE PIKE · « **Reply #5 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:41:55 PM »

....looks good Homie , are we going to see a Homie Wooly Bugger , for saltwater application ....

dodger · « **Reply #6 on:** June 28, 2013, 08:04:58 PM »

very very nice

Charles · « **Reply #7 on:** June 28, 2013, 08:05:44 PM »

Great stuff Homie!

Thanks for sharing!

maganything · « **Reply #8 on:** June 29, 2013, 06:59:56 AM »

great stuff homes!!

Tying becomes addictive.
If i can suggest one thing, before you fish these flies, just check that they dont spin when being retrieved. the last thing you want is a spinning fly. We normally check this in the pool.

Just my 2c, maybe you know this already!

Great flies for a first attempt, way better than my first flies looked!!

PH · « **Reply #9 on:** June 29, 2013, 07:51:55 AM »

Looks like the DIY bug bit you properly Homie.
Don't much about flies but the colours look appetising.
Thanks for sharing and well done.

Homie · « **Reply #10 on:** June 29, 2013, 09:11:54 AM »

Thanks guys..

Will swim test them...

Lichia amia · « **Reply #11 on:** June 30, 2013, 08:21:43 AM »

Lekker Homithzzz

Pasop as Maganything said it becomes addictive , you may turn in to Homie the fly just like old Louie

Monster · « **Reply #12 on:** June 30, 2013, 09:01:00 AM »

Awesome, Homie.
Nice flies.

Homie · « **Reply #13 on:** June 30, 2013, 04:32:09 PM »

Tried a klinkhammer. ..
not so easy...

isivuba · « **Reply #14 on:** June 30, 2013, 05:00:05 PM »

Ok now you just showing of.......looks good

. Was going to ask you in the other thead what a "posts" was but now I get it.

LGF · « **Reply #15 on:** June 30, 2013, 05:45:55 PM »

Looking GR8 Homes and that nogal for the first flies!!!

I never got "walkers-killer" right. Remember to put some nail varnish on the heads where you tie the flies off, that way they will last much much longer, just don't get in trouble with the wife, or you could look silly for a couple of moments in Edgars with some stares from old people and go buy yourself a bottle of your own

My first trout I caught was on a fly I tied myself and was the "black and peacock spider" weighed 600g, but it was a great feeling.

I ended up with tying bass flies in their hundreds and just before my vice became a device to hang painted hard baits from I tied a couple of saltwater flies with dumbell eyes.

What was said about the addicitveness is no lie, it really is VERY addictive.

PS. MIAS in fourways has the largest range of fly tying materials that I have come accross.

REEFMAN · « **Reply #16 on:** June 30, 2013, 06:05:56 PM »

Stellar stuff Homes!!

Well done man!

Homie · « **Reply #17 on:** June 30, 2013, 06:37:09 PM »

Thanks guys.

Henk.... I've already stolen the missus's clear.... You should have heard her when she saw me using it.....
Lol

LGF · « **Reply #18 on:** June 30, 2013, 06:39:20 PM »

did you also get the "chainsaw without oil on the chain" sounding scream?

Homie · « **Reply #19 on:** June 30, 2013, 06:41:46 PM »

Apparently, I used her "expensive" one....

She's promised to go get me my own tomorrow