Hey Everyone,
Been a while since I posted. Busy with life and such. Here is a fun fly that my daughter and I tied together. She picks out the materials and I do the tying. She has tied a bit herself as well but she finds the flash hard to work with and really for her (she is 5) its all about the flash. In fact I had to suggest we add the arctic fox to this one as a prop otherwise it would have just been a body and flash. A little gaudy but I imagine it will catch fish anyway. She is excited to try it out.
Materials
Body: light blue holo tinsel with gold and silver ribs and a turquoise barred rooster hackle.
Prop: composite loop of pink and orange arctic fox with purple ice angle hair, pearl gold angel hair
Flash: a few strands each of shrimp pink, red, purple, chartreuse crystal flash. a few strands of glo orange. a few strands of pearl, holo blue, pink, holo copper, black fashabou.
I really tried to keep it to a few strands of each but she wanted a substantial amount of blue and back on the top so it looked like a fishes back.
Anyway fun way to fly tie if you want a challenge as to how much flash you can fit on a shank. Shanks are a good way to tie with little ones by the way because you can leave the hook off until after you are done then no one gets poked.
Been a while since I posted. Busy with life and such. Here is a fun fly that my daughter and I tied together. She picks out the materials and I do the tying. She has tied a bit herself as well but she finds the flash hard to work with and really for her (she is 5) its all about the flash. In fact I had to suggest we add the arctic fox to this one as a prop otherwise it would have just been a body and flash. A little gaudy but I imagine it will catch fish anyway. She is excited to try it out.
Materials
Body: light blue holo tinsel with gold and silver ribs and a turquoise barred rooster hackle.
Prop: composite loop of pink and orange arctic fox with purple ice angle hair, pearl gold angel hair
Flash: a few strands each of shrimp pink, red, purple, chartreuse crystal flash. a few strands of glo orange. a few strands of pearl, holo blue, pink, holo copper, black fashabou.
I really tried to keep it to a few strands of each but she wanted a substantial amount of blue and back on the top so it looked like a fishes back.
Anyway fun way to fly tie if you want a challenge as to how much flash you can fit on a shank. Shanks are a good way to tie with little ones by the way because you can leave the hook off until after you are done then no one gets poked.

