so the finished product below by using piketreks spectrum twist great looking big fly with great movement and flash , how could i possibly know that , well I've been tying flies since i was a kid tying flies for the trout on the river tweed i know what makes a good fly don't need to get it wet i know its gonna be good and do what its made for you cant buy experience
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this fly looked good i know what it will do in the water so i thought id just play with some ideas adding a bit of flash here some bucktail there different colour eyes etc and see what comes out my brain mmmmm works for me
the purple throbber
hey if ivory tower productions is good enough for pike trek videos them the purple throbber is a good enough name for this fly , the chaps at piketrek do this fantastic colour called shiner its basically black synthetic hair with an angel hair like flash through it , and it looks brilliant so as i was on a big fly kick i decided a big purple throbber was called for uncle Greg will no doubt be spraying his dinner over the computer screen when he reads that one
you've been tangoed I'm into using bright fluro type colours as a core then tying in a lighter colour over the top adding a bit of flash here and there , and to be honest I'm impressed with the results so far the core colours really shine through and I've got a few ideas to improve on it, these are big flies there designed for big predators 10 , 11 12 inch flies are the norm here but don't be shocked with the lengths because as there made from piketreks synthetics there are light as anything and the movement in the water (yes i have tried them) is unbelievable they move like nothing you've ever seen before
scrappy dappy doo
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i had some scraps of arc chrome left in the bottom of a box now being of north of the border origin i really don't waste anything I've even done flies with one eye before because I've lost the matching one i get asked wheres the other eye , it was in a fight and lost it i reply , seriously i waste nothing the stuff i could throw away would keep a trout fly tier in materials for 20 years .
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so with that in mind i created this monster below nothing much to look at but it has movement and flash so that's good enough to get something interested
more furry creations -------
well ya cant beat playing with a bit of fur and again big massive flies were the order of the day i was going to put a layer of epoxy round these but i really don't think they need it as there is enough weight with hook and its never good having your fur on the heavy side as it soaks up the water and combine that with the weight of a hook and it could get a bit heavy on the casting
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the rabbit strip I've used is from hareline I've tried a few company's in the past but always found hairline to be the most consistent in length and colour you can go back and buy the same material years later and be assured that you'd get the same colour
so to take things up a level I've split bunnied this one and added the spectrum as a flash head i would imagine that a fish may mistake this fly as a frog in the water as the double strip does look like a frogs rear legs stripped and paused , some people I'm aware do put a stiff mono loop behind the hook to stop the fur tangling when cast , although i must admit I've never had this problem myself so i never add a loop
so that's that a very productive day for tying
all the materials I've used on the flies are available from the following so till next time
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