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Monthly Challenge #2 The strip wing

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#1 ·
This is a strip wing fly called Sorcerer. Origanaly tied by Brad Burden

Hook AJ 1.5
Tag gold oval
Tail GP Crest
Butt black ostrich...... Original called for 4or5 black goose fibers twisted and wound around to form the butt.
Body 2/3 copper flat tinsel 1/3 black angora dubbing
Rib gold oval
Body hackle black spey hackle. I used goose
Throat Guinea
Wing black goose
Cheek Jungle cock
Thread Black 6/0


Start thread and wrap back to just beyond the hook point



Tie in tinsel on far side of the hook for the tag



Wrap tinsel to form the tag



Tie in the tail



Tie in the ostrich and make the butt



Tie in rib and then wrap forward 2/3s of the way up the hook.

 
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#2 ·
Now tie in copper tinsel and wrap down and back



Tie in the body hackle




Dubb the frount 1/3 of the body



Next wrap the ribs and then wrap the body hackle



Tie in the throat and wrap



Tie in the wing



Tie in the cheeks



Finnish the head and go fishing



Rocky
 
#4 · (Edited)
This is a neat fly;

Very nice Rocky,

You guys are going to get me started with these patterns, I haven't tied much since last summer. I liked Marty's purple wet fly and made a few of them and I can see this as a hair wing in my future. I tied it on a size 4 because I use them for trout & char here.

Thanks



I made some hair wing models too, I have no clue why the lighting is so different on this picture but you can still make out what it is; weird, same aperture, shutter, light, weird.

 
#8 ·
Very nice Rocky,

You guys are going to get me started with these patterns, I haven't tied much since last summer. I liked Marty's purple wet fly and made a few of them and I can see this as a hair wing in my future. I tied it on a size 4 because I use them for trout & char here.

Thanks



This is a much better wing Ard. I like it

Rocky
 
#9 ·
Alright then, we have that settled and I made some with hair wings too Rock. I like the copper black thing and am making a pair that are simpler. No butt, and no rib over the tinsel just wire over the hackle and sticking with the hair. This just may turn out to be a good fly for me.

Thanks,

Ard
 
#10 ·
I wanna play! I couldn't resist this one. i've been working on getting my tying groove back on, and this one was pretty darn inspiring. Thanks Rocky!

I opted for the goose shoulder butt. There's a couple trouble spots in her that I'll correct on the next one. Great fun tying this one!

Join the party. Where is everyone? Get tying this wonderful pattern.

Dec
 

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#16 ·
My attempt

Thanks for the great SBS Rocky! I had to sub a few things. All I have at the moment is gold hooks, so I added a very small tag to separate the tinsel from the hook. I also used gold mylar instead of copper and mallard flank instead of guinea. This is my first strip wing, hopefully the next will turn out better
 

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#20 ·
devscojo,

If that is the first you ever did you are obviously good at this. I've been fishing these type wet flies for a long time and I don't do as well as you at making them. I might add that you choose a small hook and I can tell you that makes it harder to tie as well as you have done.

Nice, really nice fly tying there :)

Ard

PS; Dec your fly is also a beauty and it looks like you are doing fine from here too.
 
#26 ·
Well, I just got my ass handed to me. Man are these wings hard to set. I think I finally got it. I will post the flies I tied this weekend.

Ard & Dec, your fly looks amazing!

Thanks again Rocky for the sbs on strip wings.
Rich
 
#38 ·
I didn't have any black goose shoulder, so I used turkey and got it a little short I think, but here is my try.
murph.

I wouldn't get too worked up about the length of the wing there. I've had a bunch of salmon and some stray trout get hung up on flies that were far from perfect. I always just tied for myself and if the fly hooked good to me I was proud of it. Then came the Internet forum and digital cameras, next you get a photo bucket account and figure out how to put a fly online................. You click & scroll through the sites and threads and start to feel that somehow what has been working for years is somehow a thing you are ashamed to show to people.

Don't get me wrong here, fly tiers like Rocky and many others on this forum helped me clean up my act but as you can see I stopped way short of perfection. Your fly looks so much better than the ones I tie that it's kinda painful to hear you say that there is something wrong with what you did. :) All of the flies I see here and I do mean 'all' of them are great works. When you think back on the 'Dark Ages' before the Internet many times the people who were striving for this level of tying skill were preparing to publish an index for such patterns. Those who were simply fishing with home made salmon flies did their best and then took them to the river. I spent a lot of years where I tied then ended up with the salmon flies in storage for up to a year before I could take a trip to the rivers where the fish were. I'm fortunate in that I found a way to get into them but I still have to sit on flies for 6 months at a time while I wait out the winter. Thanks to places & people like I found here I can learn some more tricks and step up the craftsmanship in the flies that get tied up over the down time these days. What living here has taught me is that I need to tie flies that will take a pounding and not come apart on me when the action is such that I have no time to waste changing a fly so I work on that on the patterns.

Your fly is a beauty and I sure hope you get to have a day you won't forget with that one tied on. :D

Ard
 
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