seasons grettings from the cave

THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN

so a few days away from Christmas and hope your all looking forward to it and id like to say have a good one to all who visit here.

i did plan to do a lengthy post about the state of predator fly tying in 2015 but ill save that till my next post as i have quite a lot to say on the subject from my own prospective .

so for this post ill keep it short and sweet and just throw a few patterns out there that ive been doing recently  

black ep baitfish

hook : 6/0 octopus

fibre : black ep

eye : animal eye 8mm

thread : clear mono

flash : black flashbou

big black ep

hook : 6/0 octopus

fibre : black ep

eye : animal eye 8mm

thread : clear mono

flash : black flashbou

now the 2 flys above both made with the same materials but both look and work and look very differently in the water , although the bigger fly looks very bulky it is in fact not , its tied using the least material i could get away with , what you have is a big fly with bulky profile in the water and hardly any weight   

ICE9 BAITFISH

hook : 5/0 ultra strong aberdeen 

belly flash :platinum micro tinsel from castlefeathers

back flash : rainbow micro tinsel from castlefeathers 

eye : deercreek gator eye 8mm

thread : clear mono

BIG BLUE

hook : 6/0 etra strong aberdeen

tail : grizzled metz cape

body : blue bucktail

thread : clear mono 

flash :blue flashbou

(this fly incorporates a rattle tied in the bucktail)

black streamer 

hook : 6/0 aberdeen

tail : black saddle hackle x4

flash : black flashbou

thread :clear mono

head : 2 palmerd marabou feathers (black) 

this fly also has an inbuilt rattle and being marabou has a fantastic pulsing motion when strip paused 

mixing it up again

nice to see flys appearing on facebook groups have been made by using both  natural and synthetics  , i harped on some time ago ago about doing just this and there was no reason on earth not to add a bit of bling to your fluff 

you know sometimes you just look at a fly in the vice and you dont want to put it in your fly box or even fish it , this fly was one of those moments anyway the pattern is  

hook : 6/0 octopus 

fibre : belly white ep / back pink ep fibre 

overback : blue grizzed metz

eye : deercreek 8mm

flash : olive ep flash tied in behind the eye and overtied with ep fibre

thread :clear mono

so thats it for Decemberer said i was going to keep it short , id like to say many thanks for all the views this year and visits to the page  next year will be much of the same except ill probably be out more fishing and of course even more flys.

and i hope to be tying overseas as well this year so watch this space , and many thanks to all those who take the time to email me with questions its always a pleasure to talk to you.

so i bid you farewell and for those of you lucky enough to be out fishing over the festive period i had you catch plenty of lumps and stay safe

mcfluffchucker

(a cave in scotland)